We’re on mission at Benoni Baptist Church to reach Benoni with the gospel, and equip all for life. Our facilities enable that goal.
It’s very clear that the Lord is working in our community. One of the ways is through the imagination and generosity of our members. Over the past few months a number of people have offered ideas, dreaming of facility upgrades and improvements. Others have offered to fund a number of projects. Our executive, and church, have also approved a number of projects.
Below is a list of potential future projects, and projects that have been completed. We have also included a number of maintenance tasks which need to be completed. The intention is to bring the congregation into our confidence as we endeavour to lead Benoni Baptist Church to reach Benoni with the gospel, and equip all for life.
All potential projects will go through our standard decision making processes.
Our hope that our members will rally to this renovation effort. Some will dream. Some will give. Some will do. This renovation effort will not be successful because of the generosity of a few, but with the sacrifice of the many.
Completed projects
May
Interior designer
July
Remove the beams
Paint fire hydrant cupboard doors
Paint brickwork
Paint lobby
Upgrade the inverter and battery
Paint toilets
Paint library
Paint white bookshelf units in library
Repair cornices and paint ceiling in library
Frost vinyl pattern on sliding door in library
Paint kitchen
August
Renovate the roofing
Paint shelving unit white
Health and safety inspection for wooden slats
Remove whiteboard
Professional services
Architectural services
Lobby
Remove cornerstone, make the wall good and paint
Remove the A.B. Brett commemorative stone and relocate it to the garden of remembrance, make the wall good and paint
New door sign for the Mother’s room
Directional signs to Toilets and Fellowship Hall / Sunday school classes
John 8:12 on the accent wall (estimation R12,500)
Rhinolite, plaster & paint undercoat side walls
Supply and Install Glass/Perspex History panel on wall (with stainless steel lugs) (estimation R26,240)
TV or projector
Entrance to main hall
Straighten up the cross on the wall outside the lobby
Repaint damage on wall after moving the cross
Mat in footwell
Install cornerstone to the left of the entrance
Move centenary plague under the cornerstone
Main hall
Hang Red Quilt on side wall at the back of the main hall
Psalm 119:105 on the accent wall
Re-upholster seat cushions for main hall benches
Supply and install back panels to main hall benches
New doors for the baptismal bath
Mothers’ room
Airconditioning (estimation R15,930)
Paint
Decorate with babies theme
Singage
Toilets
Clean / Paint / varnish toilet doors in the fellowship hall
Signage to fellowship hall
Architect design option for new ablution facility that includes disabled people / babies
Paper towel option – low maintenance with improved hygiene
Library
New signage for Bookshelves
Library chairs damaged – needs to be fixed and re-upholstered
Supply and Install carpets
Supply and Install 3x glass & aluminium doors (to kitchen, store room & hall)
Fellowship Hall
Assess wall once wooden slats have been removed, rhinolite and paint if necessary (estimation R11,340)
Remove curtains at kitchen nook; supply and install aluminium & glass folding stacking window to close off kitchen (estimation R18,650)
Sand & varnish wooden skirtings
Paint the passage and toilets in the Fellowship hall
Repair / replace ceiling boards in Fellowship Hall where sagging (estimation R8,430)
Sliding doors and tented area
Chase walls and install conduits in wall with lights witches and plug boxes and cabling concealed (neat solution) (estimation R3,990)
Supply and Install Acoustic / Decorative wallpanels on back wall (to design)
Supply and Install Acoustic / Decorative wallpanels on side walls, at class rooms with cut-outs for cabling and switches (to design)
Supply and Install new glass & aluminium interior doors (5x single & 1x double) (estimation R42,500)
Supply and Install carpet tiles (R161,000)
Supply and install venetian blinds to exterior windows
Supply and install new carpet tiles on stages
Sunday school classes
Pinboard (Enviro PET) – supply and install onto melamine panel next to BIC
Venetian Blinds
New Handles on built-in cupboards
New seating benches for parents
Carpets
Glass doors on boys Sunday school rooms
Kitchen
Replace water damaged kickplates
Replace swing door cupboards with dustbin drawers (door on runners)
Buy and install dishwasher (Hygiene issue)
Snap back windows between the fellowship hall and the kitchen
Coffee perculators
Store room
Tidy up the wiring (estimation R3,900)
Demolish wall between meeting room and store room, build in a lintel, plaster, rhinolite and paint walls (get structural engineer’s approval for removal of wall ??) (estimation R24,320)
Venetian blinds
New boardroom table and chairs
Exterior
Repair broken fascia boards, check gutters and paint (estimation R24,870)
Replace putty on all external windows and paint (Check main hall and fellowship hall) (R35,410)
Childrens play area fence
Paint entrance to fellowship hall
Repair roof tiles (R96,500)
Garden tap and outlet for the baptismal font
Office block
Repair broken fascia boards, check gutters and paint (estimation R3,280)
Paint outside building
Check and Paint inside if required
Roof-tiles (estimation R29,870)
Conversion of single room accommodation
Conversion of family accommodation
Ramp to front entrance
Ramp to garden of remembrance
Meeting room
Paint inside
Decorate – coffee bar theme
Paint outside
Parking
Add additional bays by office block
Slab the bed
Level grass parking
Add parking exit sign
Disabled parking signboards
Maintenance tasks
Main hall
Paint the electrical cupboard (sanded, primed, and painted)
The electric box needs a new handle
Clean electrical cover, and install trunking behind the communion table
Install trunking for lights on stage
Replace light in chandelier (needs scaffolding)
Front fan needs to be balanced (needs scaffolding)
Main hall storeroom
Lock on storage cupboard needs to be cut
Clean light fitting
Light needs to be replaced
Fire extinguisher needs to be installed
Lobby
Hang the fire extinguisher back (block needs sanded, primed, painted)
Hang the fire extinguisher sign
Replace 5 faulty down lights
Move escape signs
New doorhandles on fire cupboard
Notice board or TV/projector
Mothers’ room
Replace faulty lights
Trunking for wiring to speaker (trunking and wiring)
Remove fan (after air con)
Remove heater (after air con)
Mothers’ room toilet
Lights needs to be installed
Toilet isn’t flushing properly
Passage
Supply and install new anti-slip stair strips to slate stairs (clear strips)
Passage toilets
Soap brackets need to removed, and the wall repainted
Hang up Soap Dispenser and Hand paper towel stand
Ladies bathroom leaking tap
Library
Clean light fittings
Neaten plugs and cabling to TV (trunking, cable ties)
Install ceiling fan
Spray wicker chairs and table white (one of the chairs needs to be fixed)
Library storeroom
Install a new light fitting
Fellowship hall kitchen
Clean light
Fix broken cupboards (identify broken cupboards, install bin board, new skirtings)
Replace leaking tap
Fellowship hall toilets
Tap in men’s toilet needs to be repaired
The light needs to be fixed
Clean urinal, repair rusted pipe, and paint
Outside
Install fencing
5 leaking taps in the garden
Garden pots need to be painted
Gutter by fellowship hall needs to be repaired
Jungle gym needs to be renovated (pool noodles, sanding, paint)
Hooks to hold all doors
Clean and repaint decayed, clogged gutters
Paint designated disabled bays
Additional disabled parking signs
All exterior lights need to be checked, and replaced if necessary
Paint ceiling outside fellowship entrance
Church office
Pressure clean fibercrete wall
Fill electrical circular sockets in the reception
One plate on the stove, and the knobs
Wire hanging by the wall of remembrance
Roofing beams need attention
Partner with us
How do we get the dreams and projects above done? Well, through the giving of our people. Over the past year our members have been so faithful in their giving. And generous too. I’m reminded of 1 Chronicles 29:14, But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your own hand.
We take up an offering during the service. But, EFTs are a cheaper, more convenient, safer way of transferring money. We encourage members to make electronic transfers.
Bank: First National Bank
Branch: Lakeside Mall
Branch code: 251742
Account Number: 59640513931














