Plainfield Christian Church reaches out to teens

By David Bruce C. Smith

Already one of the biggest and oldest folds in Hendricks County, Plainfield Christian Church is opening a new young person centre -- and planning hereafter buildings.

Jeremy Welch (right), 18, Brownsburg, greeted visitants Lord'S Day at the Pier 14 Student Center unfastened house. - Steve Sanchez / The Star

The assemblage topographic point for Christian Christian Christian church young person is in a barnlike edifice that was a machine tooling company on 17 estate just north of the church.

Early reactions from teens is that it is anything but a barn.

Junior and senior high school-age members of the church and their households are getting some mouse peeps inside the centre named Pier 14.

The name was inspired by a biblical transition in Toilet 4:14 that mentions to imbibing the Waters of the Godhead that go a well springtime of ageless life, said Brian Leslie, one of the curates for pupil ministries.

Finishing touchings are nearly done on the building and remodeling undertaking that is forming the center. It is to be fully unfastened by January, but members of the Christian church are getting a mouse peep inside on Sundays.

The installation of about 7,500 foursquare feet includes a senior high auditorium with seats for about 150 and a junior high room for about 100.

The seniors' room includes a phase where sets and musical groupings and others will perform, plus some large silver screen televisions. The juniors' room also have got some big screening screens.

A Caribbean-themed coffeehouse with a pool table, bites and a few booths is a centrepiece of the center.

The interior decoration of thenar trees and bright colors, and respective warm and inviting countries for little groupings to garner informally on couches, have been the work of Christian church members Claude Shannon Louden and Linda McLarty.

They said the end is to make an ambiance that is "fun, tropical and relaxing."

Youth curates Leslie and Josh Cadwell will have business offices in the facility.

Church member Kent McPhail, who have directed the edifice project, said the whole building is served by some of the up-to-the-minute technology. There is a fiber-optic link to the chief Christian Christian Christian church edifice and radio computing machine access.

That agency that people from the church will be encouraged to convey their laptop computers and their after-school survey groupings to Pier 14.

The church, with about 2,000 members, is a outstanding fixture on the northwest corner of Dan Mother Jones Road and Township Line Road on the North side of Plainfield.

The fold days of the month to about 1825 when innovator preacher man Michael Combs began holding meetings.

Plainfield Christian Church have been located in respective edifices in town over the decades, beginning with a log cabin along a ridge near Center Street North of the Old National Road. There have got been other edifices on Center and James Buchanan streets until finally the Dan Mother Jones and Township Line place of about 14 estate opened in 1994.

The building, including the chief sanctuary, was completed in 1994 at a cost of $3.2 million. That debt was paid off in 2000, when an enlargement of classrooms, library, preschool and family centre costing $5.3 million was completed.

The edifice is about 100,000 foursquare feet, without counting the Pier 14 young person center.

Church leadership are planning the adjacent two edifice forms if the growing of the fold goes on over the adjacent decade.

Two new wings could be attached North of the edifice and could include more than schoolrooms and an auditorium.

The young person centre is actually an extended remodeling occupation and some new building that golf course five pole barn edifices on a 17-acre land site north of the chief Christian church building. Darrin Robert Nesta Marley Construction, Monrovia, was the Pb contractor workings with JDH Contracting, Toilet Hallway Construction, Trent Electric and Burney Plumbing, all Plainfield.

The immature person centre is accessed from the North side of the Christian church parking lot.

The topographic point was purchased from Max Rettig, who operated a usage machine and metallic element turning concern in the buildings.

The end is to make a place that volition draw the young people who will be a large portion of the hereafter of the congregation.

"This is a large statement that states we care about teenagers," Leslie said.