New Facility Timeline
April
8, 1998—Pathway
Ministers Charter
Visioning Task Force
to
prayerfully consider expanding Skyline’s ministry, staff, and facility.
Nov. 15, 1998—Skyline Church Conference approves VTF recommendation to
expand our facility.
Feb. 10, 1999—Pathway Ministers charter Building and Funding Task Forces.
Feb. 20, 2000—Skyline Church Conference approves the preliminary plan
May 2000—Skyline submits our exploratory plan to the county for approval
Apr. 4, 2000—Pat Foster joins Skyline staff (part of VTF recommendation)
June 2000—Skyline members and friends pledge over $700,000
to build in a 3-year
capital campaign
Nov. 18, 2000— Skyline Church Conference approves final plan
Sep. 26, 2001—NCCo approves exploratory sketch plan
Oct. 15, 2001—Submit Record Plan
Jan. 2, 2002—NCCo approves record plan
Feb. 28, 2002—UM Development Fund approves million dollar construction loan
(requires we
hire another GC)
July 25, 2002—Building Task Force selects Daystar Sills as general
contractor
Sep. 19, 2002—Groundbreaking
Oct. 24, 2002—Lower retention pond completed
Nov. 1, 2002—Excavation for foundation on new building begins
May 1, 2003—Ground floor poured
Jul. 1, 2003—Cheryl Wagner joins staff
Jul. 3, 2003—Under Roof
Jun. 24, 2003—Parking lot paved
Jan. 9, 2004—NCCo issues temporary certificate of occupancy
Jan. 18, 2004—First worship service in new sanctuary!
Solomon's Temple Dedication
Prayer
1 Kings 8:23, 29-30, 35-36, 41-43, 50-53 (The Message)
O God, God of Israel, there is no
God like you in the skies above or on the earth below who unswervingly keeps
covenant with his servants and relentlessly loves them as they sincerely
live in obedience to your way.
Keep your eyes open to this Temple night and
day, this place of which you said, "My Name will be honored there," and
listen to the prayers that I pray at this place.
Listen from your home in heaven
and when you hear, forgive.
When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain
because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this
place, acknowledging your rule and quitting their sins because you have
scourged them,
Listen from your home in heaven,
forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel.
Then start over with them: Train them to live right and well; send rain on
the land you gave your people as an inheritance.
And don't forget the foreigner who is not a member of your people Israel but
has come from a far country because of your reputation. People are going to
be attracted here by your great reputation, your wonder-working power, who
come to pray at this Temple.
Listen from your home in heaven.
Honor the prayers of the foreigner so that people all over the world will
know who you are and what you're like and will live in reverent obedience
before you, just as your own people Israel do; so they'll know that you
personally make this Temple that I've built what it is.
Forgive your people who have sinned against you; forgive their gross
rebellions and move their captors to treat them with compassion. They are,
after all, your people and your precious inheritance whom you rescued from
the heart of that iron-smelting furnace, Egypt!
O be alert and attentive to the needy prayers of me, your servant, and your
dear people Israel; listen every time they cry out to you! You handpicked
them from all the peoples on earth to be your very own people, as you
announced through your servant Moses when you, O God, in your masterful
rule, delivered our ancestors from Egypt.
