
RENOVATION PROPOSAL
Renovating our church will create accessible, beautiful, and functional spaces for our ministry and our mission partners. Central to our plans is an elevator that will provide access to all five levels of our building and an additional 20,000 square feet for gathering, meeting, learning and worshiping space.
The Session of First Presbyterian Church, Springfield, IL, calls a
congregational meeting on November 13, 2022 in Zoom for the purpose
of voting on borrowing funds from the Presbyterian Investment and Loan Program to fund this renovation. All members are receiving a
letter and email with details of this meeting.
Informational discussion in Zoom Wednesday Nov. 9th with
the Renovation Team and Finance Committee.
Architecture Promotes Healing
Renovation Presentation

Charrette Report Spring 2020
Dimension IV architectural firm was retained by First Presbyterian Church to provide a multi-session Design/ Planning Charrette. The primary goal for the Charrette was to visualize the potential of the facility to meet the requirements of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) for universal accessibility and revise as appropriate how the facility can best meet the current and anticipated future mission and goals of the congregation.
Design Summary


Visuals Speak Workshop 8.2019
Sixty church members worked with Molly Grisham to envision how God is calling us to serve our community as faithful disciples of Jesus and led by the Spirit.. The overwhelming clarity for building renovations is an elevator. We also highly value our community partnerships.

Community Asset Mapping
Asset mapping is a critical engagement tool – bringing together a wide group of stakeholders and leaders from throughout Springfield and greater Sangamon County to generate ideas and guidance on ways that First Presbyterian Church can use its space and building for new uses, partnerships, and collaboration.
Asset Mapping Summary
Geography of Grace
10.2018
As a congregation, we are rooted and reaching. We honor our past, our roots, while nurturing our growing future, our branches. In these workshops, we listened for God’s voice leading us in new paths informed by our history and shaped by our present community. This is our heart and soul work. The Geography of Grace curriculum was developed by the Center for Courage and Renewal.

