Background on Church Buildings for Collaborative Partnerships.
St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church members from all parts of the parish leadership have developed a plan to alter the buildings’ structures and the congregation’s activities to welcome people from all over the community. This is a focused and precise programmatic plan that has definite beginnings and which is operational now in 2026.
On Thursday, March 31, 2020, several groups toured St. Timothy’s buildings to advise leaders how to engage in self-study and design a community involvement program. The visitors included folks from the Church Buildings for Collaborative Partnerships program office, the diocesan staff, and congregational leaders. The link to more information is at the top of this page.
The Church Buildings for Collaborative Partnerships staff took measurements with tape measurers and generated a background assessment of how our buildings were serving us and serving the wider community.
This activity helped us understand how our congregation could plan for long-term viability — both as stewards of state and national historic registry properties — and as faithful followers of Jesus Christ. Before this Church Buildings for Collaborative Partnerships work began, the congregation worked with leaders form the diocesan staff and preservation experts to place the church’s buildings on the National Register of Historic Places (Dec. 2, 2020) and on the Indiana Register of Historic Sites and Structures (Oct. 21, 2020).
In 2022, the congregation’s CBCP team welcomed a group of 25 people, mostly comprised of community interest groups, to study and advise us about what our building represents to the community. Crucially they looked at what the buildings say about the congregation and what the buildings represent potentially to the community.