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Link: Church to renovate Midstate school

From the Tennessean:

A few months back, Maury Davis took a walk through the Gene W. Brown Elementary School in Hendersonville.

He didn't like what he saw. In his opinion, the 50-year-old school was neglected and had been allowed to run down.

"We realized that there was a need at that school," said the pastor of Cornerstone Church in Madison. "For a number of years we had spent well over a million dollars in missions in foreign countries and realized that there were some needs right here in our hometown."

Beginning Monday, his congregation will begin to address some of those needs.

Volunteers from Cornerstone Church and local businesses will embark on a weeklong "extreme renovation" project at the school. They will do everything from repairing, replacing and painting to landscaping in a $180,000 project to make the school almost brand new when students return this fall.

The church will provide 105 new computers, install 28 new toilets and 17 new sinks, pave 100 yards of concrete, paint the entire school, replace floors, carpets, seal and re-strip the parking lot, landscape the grounds and update the playground.

"For a number of years, Cornerstone has reached out around the world," Davis said in a news release. "Now it's time to do something significant, to reach out and affect the lives in our hometown, where God has called us."

He is getting donations from businesses in town to help out, and getting plenty of publicity from the TV stations and newspapers.

[Digging4Truth]

Great...

Real people doing real things for a real world.

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Great...

Real people doing real things for a real world.

I'm sure someone will have a problem with it... seeing as it's a 'worldly secular school' and all that...


I for one am all for it. If they have the cash to do it, let 'em do it.

[StillStanding]

Originally Posted by Ronzo

I'm sure someone will have a problem with it... seeing as it's a 'worldly secular school' and all that...


I for one am all for it. If they have the cash to do it, let 'em do it.

It is my understanding that the church is administrating it with donations from businesses and folks in the community.

I would imagine that the youth and skilled workers from the church are donating their time to do this project. On TV this morning, they put up a phone number for anyone wanting to help do the work needed.

Think about it! They'll have community volunteers working side by side with members from their church. Do you think some witnessing will be done?

How do you think this will effect the publics perception of this church?

Originally Posted by Pianoman

It is my understanding that the church is administrating it with donations from businesses and folks in the community.

I would imagine that the youth and skilled workers from the church are donating their time to do this project. On TV this morning, they put up a phone number for anyone wanting to help do the work needed.

Think about it! They'll have community volunteers working side by side with members from their church. Do you think some witnessing will be done?

This is a witness all by itself.

[tamor]

Praise God. I think it is wonderful. And like you said, there will be folks from every walk of life and religious persusion working together. What an opportunity!