Project "Matrix" Pulls It All Together

Synthesizes Accumulated Hopes and Dreams for Our Historic Building and Modern Ministry Needs Going Forward

A major break-through product of the Capital Campaign Steering effort is a comprehensive project “Matrix” (see below). This document synthesizes the accumulated hopes and dreams for our historic building, and the needs for modern ministry going forward. Specifically, it pulls together and catalogs projects identified by prior capital campaign initiatives (2019), the Session—particularly the constant caretaking work of the Building Ministry, congregational interviews and recommendations from the recent Dreams and Visions Task Force (2022/3) and Building Assessment Team (2023), and recent top to bottom walk-throughs of the building with our consultants and the architects interviewed. All of this highlighted in different ways the problems of an aging building that has been sorely in need of care, attention, and modernization. The identified projects and needs are grouped along the left-hand axis according to use: Worship, Non-Worship, and Washington Seminar Center. The top axis is grouped according to Function: Visibility, Welcome, Modernization, Access, Efficiency, Monetization, and Safety/Security. Within each cell of the “Matrix” is a short description of the need or project. Color codes indicate a rough sense of priority. Special recognition goes to co-chair Adrianne Marsh for the significant effort to pull this all together in a usable form. The Matrix document has been provided to FGM, the consulting architects, to inform their work on the final scope and master plan, which will result in schematics and renderings of proposed renovations.