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Church renovation

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

June

Paint

July

Remove the beams

Paint fire hydrant cupboard doors

Paint except brickwork

New lights

Paint brickwork

Paint lobby

Upgrade the inverter and battery

Paint toilets

New towels

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

Repaint parking bays

Reconfigure parking bays near the fellowship hall

August

Paint

Renovate the roofing

Signage

Purchase 2 servers

Get 3 artificial palms for existing white pots

Paint the back wall Obsidian

Paint shelving unit white

Frost vinyl pattern on sliding doors

Health and safety inspection for wooden slats

Remove wooden slats

Remove whiteboard

Plaster and paint back wall

Upgrade the inverter and battery and solar

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