It was 12 years in the making, but on Nov. 15, 2009, the congregation of St. Andrew’s, Lindsay, Ont., dedicated a new addition to their 119-year-old church.
The three-storey, 8,300-square-foot “accessibility wing” features several new meeting rooms (including a dedicated room for an Alcoholics Anonymous group that meets four times weekly), new offices, a nursery, a new kitchen, and a portico entrance. The wing cost about $2 million to build, but the total project cost about $3.4 million and included the purchase of additional land.
“We’re a downtown church,” said Arol Fairbairn, the church’s caretaker and chairman of the building committee. “The lack of meeting rooms was really hampering our outreach.”
The church draws an average of 230 people each week. – C.P.
