Construction and reopening

Our community room in the middle of construction

Investing in the future

Finding safe spaces to gather with friends during the pandemic has been challenging for many of our members. Our office renovations should be complete by early December, and we're prioritizing the reopening of our newly modified space to meet member needs safely.

Construction tour with Michelle Meyer

Community Room

A larger Community Room is essential for a safe reopening to ensure more space between members when they’re sitting and talking. While we are limited to the building's physical footprint, the Community Room will increase by 1,000 square feet, and gain additional usable space by reconfiguring the room's flow.

Our community room in the middle of construction

Classroom & volunteer area

While larger spaces are critical in COVID-times, even before the pandemic, our existing classroom often wasn’t large enough to accommodate programming like choir.

And if you’ve ever been a volunteer or attended an event on that side, you’ll be excited to hear that we’re adding another entry door and a bathroom, so volunteers will not have to traipse all the way back through the other building!

Our volunteer area all empty

"The project started long before I became ED, but couldn’t have been realized at a better time.”

Michelle Meyer
Executive Director

By Jillianne Bandstra

Jillianne never grew out of the childhood “But, why?” stage. This insatiable curiosity led her to get two masters degrees (Adult Ed. & MBA). Jillianne can’t think of a better way to spend an afternoon than listening to someone’s story and getting a glimpse of the unseen history that we all hold. She believes there is beauty and value in all our stories, even if they’re messy. Outside of her work as our Communications Manager, you’ll find her chasing middle-schoolers in her role as a Youth Director and stepping on Legos left by her two young boys.