Ezra Building Fund
A congregation this size built a sanctuary and paid for it.
The new sanctuary addition was finished in 2025. It was raised the slow way — dinners, sales, and ordinary paychecks — by a country church that decided not to borrow against its own future.
Where It Stands
The thermometer by the door.
There is a hand-lettered sign inside the chapel with a sliding marker on it. That is the whole accounting system, and everyone here can read it on the way in.
It is posted in public rather than kept in a committee, which tells you most of what you need to know about how this church handles money. Anyone is welcome to ask what the current figure is and where it came from.
David Powell and Miranda Powell serve as our fund-raising facilitators. Every fundraiser the chapel holds goes to this fund and nothing else.
Why a Separate Fund
Fundraisers build the building. Tithes run the church.
“We do not believe that a church should have fundraisers to pay for the everyday expenditures of the church. That is to be derived from the tithes and offerings of the church families.”
It is a distinction worth stating plainly, because a lot of churches blur it. Money raised at a dinner or a sale here does not quietly disappear into the electric bill. The everyday running of the chapel is carried by the giving of its own families, week to week.
How to Help
Three ways, none of them complicated.
- Give to the Fund
- Mark a check or an envelope for the building fund and it goes nowhere else. Ways to give →
- Come to a Fundraiser
- Dinners, sales, and seasonal events run through the year. Call the church office to ask what is next on the calendar.
- Ask a Question First
- Nobody here minds the question, and the answer is not a secret. Send a message →
Come see what they built.
It is easier to appreciate standing in the room than reading about it. Worship is at 10:00.