New Chairs for New Hope

One thing about moving from the Senior Center to our own space is that we no longer have chairs provided for us. And since we sit every time we meet at church, we've decided to get some good quality chairs that will look good, feel comfortable and last a long time.

Wouldn't you know it? The best company for providing such chairs is called (ta-da!) Bertolini Sanctuary Seating. No, there's no relation. You can visit their web site to see what they're about--the most entertaining part of the site is watching a video of a guy futilely pounding a chair with a sledgehammer!

Good chairs don't come cheap, of course. With the shipping, each chair costs $45.00 and we plan to purchase 250 of them. That totals to $11,250 which would wipe out our reserves. So we've ordered 100 of the chairs which we expect to deliver around December 5th, and as the finances come in we will order the remaining 150 seats.

And speak- ing of finances coming in...

We are asking the members of our New Hope family to "sponsor a chair" in order to afford it all. So if you can give a gift (above your normal offering), why not buy a chair for our church? Maybe you could buy one chair for each person in your family? Or even one for every family member plus one for somebody else?

In order to see how we're doing with the "chair drive," we've created a poster that you'll find out in the lobby on Sunday mornings. On this board you'll see pictures of chairs, and for each chair you purchase, you can take a "chair" off the board! As of Monday, we've had about 50 chairs sponsored, so we're already 20% of the way to our goal of 250!

If you have any questions, contact a New Hope shepherd.