Our second Value-Engineering meeting was Thursday evening, June 21. The Immeasurably More team met with our contractor and architect to discuss progress since the previous meeting. Our stated goal had been to reach a $4.5 million target cost for the building and site work. This does not include the building peripherals - sound system, [...]
Hopefully you have heard that the Immeasurably More team entered into a value-engineering phase of the building process after selecting a contractor. If you have not, click here: Update: VE Phase! These are exciting days for our church as we now begin moving toward construction this fall. Our first VE meeting took place on Tuesday [...]
The Immeasurably More team is excited to announce a new phase in our process to construct Northstar's first ministry center! The team selected two contractors to interview on Monday, May 7. After meeting with the two, the the team was thankful to be placed in a dilemma of knowing we couldn't go wrong with either. [...]
Virginia Tech senior Katelin Gamble sits down with Jeff Noble and shares why she has felt it important to give regularly to Northstar's Immeasurably More campaign and challenges others to faithfully give. https://youtu.be/5J77vrGPjmg
On Friday, April 6 was Northstar's deadline for interested contractors to submit bids. We received three bids and have chosen two of those submissions to invite to interviews on Monday, April 30. We are excited about the coming days and also aware of the great need for prayerfulness and trust in the Lord. This phase [...]
From a fundraising perspective, we are very aware that things are about to get very real. Trey & Rebecca Moore Not that things haven’t already been real as we as a church have been trusting God for millions of dollars, but with the interviews of contractors happening, it is even more clear that [...]
Almost a month ago Immeasurably More team leaders sat down with several contractor candidates to discuss Design-Build RFP and begin the process of discerning who will walk with us through the process of building our new ministry center. I am not as smart as you and had to guess what RFP stood for: Religiously Focused [...]
As I walked into the BCM for the member meeting on March 18 I couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief. The last time I was in that big room (August 2017), the Immeasurably More Finance Team was delivering news about Northstar being denied financing through traditional avenues of funding. At that meeting, we [...]
Cynthia & Jim Rancourt Northstar Church is currently “waiting” to build our Ministry Center on Price’s Fork Road. For me, waiting is generally difficult and I quickly become impatient. At times, even with a microwave oven only taking thirty seconds to warm a cup of coffee, I interrupt the process with six seconds [...]
The Immeasurably More (IM) Building Team has been working diligently to push the new Ministry Center to reality. Our next milestone will be to hire a general contractor. At the moment, we are waiting on responses to a Request for Proposals (RFP) that was issued last month. Proposals will be received on April 6. At [...]
