On Wednesday several of us headed up the A1 (A road that two of us know only too well as it also leads to Lincoln and Skegness) to visit Peterborough Community Church in order to look at their new Kingsgate building that has been open just over a year.
The Church was founded in 1989 with 9 of them in a front room. Today each Sunday attracts something in the region of 1200 people. This makes it about three times bigger than Arun currently is.
From the point of view of my Job, it was good to share ideas with both Peterborough’s technical director and the others who came. I could list plenty of things that I’d love to take back to Arun. By that I don’t mean the entire £750k sound/light/computer/AV rig!
Actually it was some of the numbers that impressed me. The Church saved and raised approximately £3 million towards the building. This left them requiring a mortgage of £4.2 million. A build cost of about £7 million to get to the end of phase one, a further £3 million is needed to complete phase two. Once the Church start repaying the capital (as opposed to just the interest) on the mortgage their repayments will be around £35k a month.
Was the trip worth it? Well, I think so. I’ve got some things to think about and some things that the Church leadership want me to think about. So from that alone it was worth it.
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