Revitalizing our spaces to enrich worship and community
We aim to raise $5.6 million for facilities and accessibility improvements, including the Parish Hall, the kitchen, Mary’s Garden, and at our entries.
Reimagining Our Church Home
Building Together: Revitalizing Our Campus
From your foundation of annual giving, we invite you to consider Building Together with a one-time gift to support the campus renewal project shown in the renderings here. This gift may be made all at once or over two to three years, depending on your household’s capacity.
We encourage gifts equal to two times your annual pledge—or more, as you are able. Whether your contribution is $250 or $50,000, it will help shape the future of CHS.
Our campus hasn’t seen major updates in decades, yet it remains the hub of our ministry—worship, formation, pastoral care, outreach, and the sacraments that mark life’s milestones. Importantly, nearly 20% of the $5.6 million project cost addresses overdue infrastructure upgrades—repairs and improvements that can no longer wait. A working group shaped this scope through months of listening with clergy, staff, and ministry leaders, and the Vestry has enthusiastically affirmed the vision.
By God’s grace and through the generosity of early donors, we’ve already made strong progress. Now we invite every household to take part, so that together we can renew CHS for our children, our community, and all who will follow.
Building Together Capital Project FAQs
It’s a much-needed renewal of our campus. After decades without major updates and deferred maintenance, we’re revitalizing high-use spaces and infrastructure so CHS can better serve worship, ministries, and community for generations to come.
Over six months, the Capital Project Working Group—Father Luke Back, Skip Martin, Robin Zafirovski, and Tom Duckworth—listened to staff, ministries, preschool, and parish leaders. Guided by that feedback and the architect, they shaped plans to:
Strengthen safety and security
Update infrastructure
Refresh the Parish Hall and gathering spaces
Improve accessibility for seniors and families
Reimagine Mary’s Garden
The result: a shared vision to grow the CHS mission for years to come.
The first floor is being reimagined to better serve ministry, fellowship, and hospitality. Key updates include:
Infrastructure, ADA, and security upgrades
More welcoming interiors and entrances
A new Parish Lounge with arched window views
Parish Hall opened to Mary’s Garden with terrace and ramp
Restroom and coatroom added near the nave
A west entrance welcome area with improved access to bookstore and Community Room
Straightened west hallway with new office space
Updated Community Room for secure evening use
Relocated nursery (plans in progress)
Expanded children’s stairway entrance
All changes aim to make CHS more accessible, welcoming, and mission-focused.
The project totals an estimated $5.6 million. Several families have pledged lead gifts, but success depends on participation from every CHS household.
Goal: 80% of pledging households give a Capital Gift
Every gift matters—large or small
Annual Stewardship remains the top priority; consider a Capital Gift after making your annual pledge
Pray boldly, give faithfully, and help bring the Mustard Seed to life.
We plan to use current gifts for the project and do not plan to take on any debt. We believe this project is achievable and based on early feedback sessions we anticipate that the parish will support it in full. If needed, however, we would phase construction over a longer period of time or reduce the scope.
If we experience the blessing of overfunding for the project (a welcome result!), several initial donors welcome the opportunity to shift their excess gifts to our endowment, supporting CHS and its parish in another fashion.
The timing for the project has not yet been determined, but every effort will be made to minimize disruption. It is a high priority to maintain parish activities throughout construction by thoughtfully planning each phase of the work. The contractor has managed other projects in similar high-traffc settings and can ensure that parish activities continue uninterrupted. We will need to be patient and adapt while we await the end result, but it will be worth it!