St. Andrew's meeting at Crowninshield House
Due to renovation of its church building, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church has moved the location of its 9:30 a.m. Sunday worship service to the Crowninshield Community House at 131 Banyan St., a part of the Boca Grande Community Center complex.
The first Episcopal service in the Crowninshield House was celebrated this past Sunday, June 7th. It is anticipated the Gilchrist Avenue church renovation will take five or six months. The St. Andrew's congregation will make the Crowninshield House its "home of worship" during the renovation period.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, located at 360 Gilchrist Avenue, celebrated its centennial anniversary last December. A capital gifts campaign, begun in January, raised the money to fully fund the first phase of the concept a million-dollar renovation of the church building, and construction new office and choir space.
On June 1st, St. Andrew's began to implement its "Concept for the Next 100 Years." A crew moved out all the pews and chancel furniture for storage. The master organ tuner, Bob Campbell of Sarasota, also began the careful dismantling and crating for storage of the exquisite tracker organ, built from native Vermont lumber and installed in 1988 by the David Moore Pipe Organ Company of North Pomfret, Vermont.
Rev. Read Heydt, vicar of St. Andrew's, said that he hoped the first phase would be complete by year-end and certainly in time for consecration by the bishop, the Rt. Rev. Dabney Smith, during his annual parish visitation February 14, 2010.
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