* Address: 3419 Taft Highway.
* Pastor: The Rev. J.N. Howard.
* History: Organized in the log home of John Robinette on Fairmount Road in 1857, the church erected a building on North Fairmount Road in 1870. It built on and moved to its current site in 1947. The working bell from the building on North Fairmount was made a part of the sign at the current location in 1989. In 2011, an 8,600-square-foot building addition was completed.
* Membership: 130.
* New construction: Sanctuary seating 125 (with expansion room for more), three new Sunday school rooms, restrooms; area below sanctuary eventually will be finished as large fellowship hall; old sanctuary space converted to narthex (greeting area), choir room and nursery; secondary parking lot enlarged.
* Size: 8,600 square feet, bringing church total to 12,560 square feet.
* Cost: $930,000.
* Architect: Wayne Caughman of J. Wayne Caughman Architect Inc.
* Contractor: The Strauss Company.
* Consecration service: 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, followed by reception.
* Ministry perspective: "Because of the smallness of our building," said the Rev. J.N. Howard, pastor, "we have been hindered in being able to provide nurturing ministry for families with children and people of all ages. With classroom as well as worship space, we wanted to meet that need. We were finding a lot of interest in developing expanding ministries and felt a need for it in our end of the mountain." With the potential for more "growth out beyond us ... we wanted to be able to minister for the future."