Peter the Rock Chapel and Parish Ministry Center

Peter the Rock Chapel, Parish Ministry Center and School Expansion

Building Committee for Peter the Rock Chapel,
Parish Ministry Center and School Expansion
Fr. Gregory Golyzniak
Janis Balentine
Joseph Berube
Doug Carter
Debby Dover
Rob Hickman
J.J. Kaelin
Sheila Whalen

Parish Council
Fr. Gregory Golyzniak
J. J. Kaelin, President
Ed Paulovich, Vice President
Ciera MacIsaac, Staff Administrative Assistant
Bruce Bishop
Trish Eells
Rob Hickman
Terry Nickel
Paul Zmuda

Finance Council
Fr. Gregory Golyzniak
Alan Feldkamp, President
Kay Hoette, Secretary
Joe Berube
Kevin Cuccinelli
Ashley Fritz
Debi Judish
Mary Beth Wilson

April 12 - Presentation to the Diocesan Building Committee (see video below for the presentation)
April 16 - Contingent upon Diocesan Building Committee approval, Request for Proposal (RFP) will be sent to architects. View RFP here. View list of architects here.
April 17 - St. Peter receives approval letter from Bishop Sheridan.
June 7 - Peter the Rock Building Committee Kick-off Meeting (agenda)
July 17 - RFP for General Contractor and Preconstruction Services Agreement

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Meeting Notes
June 18, 2018 (town planning meeting notes)
June 28, 2018

Integration Design Group proposal (accepted)
Campaign approval from Bishop Sheridan (4/16/18)
Permission letter from Bishop Sheridan (5/16/18)

St. Peter Replat (parking lot)
St. Peter Public Record Property Information

Geotechnical Engineering Study

MEP Scoping Narrative (7/17/18)
Structural Narrative (7/17/18)
Schematic Design Progress (7/27/18)
Schematic Estimate Package (8/28/18)
Combined Bids (8/28/18)
Request to Bishop Sheridan (9/4/18)
Chapel Budget (9/6/18)
St. Peter Chapel Project Schedule (11/8/18)

Fr. Gregory Answers Your Questions
October 14, 2018

Dear Parishioners,

I would like to thank you all for listening to my presentation and coming over for our open house at our future Peter the Rock Chapel and Ministry Center. I would like to answer the questions you shared with us so far. I will try to answer them as best as I can.

Will there be a substantial dishwasher in the warming kitchen to accommodate 150+ people for an event (funeral receptions, social gatherings, wedding receptions, etc.)? There will be a dishwasher available, however, this kitchen will be for residential not commercial uses. Big events like the spaghetti dinners and breakfasts will continue to be hosted in Jaeger Hall. The residential kitchen will fulfill the needs of funeral receptions.

Will the Knights of Columbus spaghetti dinners and pancake breakfasts take place in the Parish Ministry Center (PMC)? No, they will stay in the school gym where we have a commercial kitchen and more space.

Exactly how many people will be able to sit in the larger conference room when partitions are opened? 150 people can sit in the big reception room with round tables present. 220 people can sit there in lecture style (without tables).

Can we move the kitchen to the center of the south portion of the first floor so that the funeral reception volunteers do not have that far to take the food? The kitchen is designed purposely for quick delivery of food from the back to the kitchen as well as close proximity to the elevator for upstairs access, if needed.

Will there be a vaulted ceiling in the chapel? Yes, and it will be cathedral style.

Will there be any Latin Masses celebrated in the chapel? Yes, as long as I’m here at St. Peter and I’m willing to celebrate Ad orientem Masses. Hopefully, my fellow priests who follow me will be willing to do the same. I assume that Saturday morning will be the best day for Latin Mass.

Will there be railings on the steps entering the building? Yes. They can be seen on the schematic design and renderings. Railings will be installed on the chapel side and at the entrance to the center.

Will there be coffee pots in the meeting rooms? No. I would like to preserve all rooms from spills and other issues which could be caused by eating food in the rooms. Food and drinks will only be allowed in the large conference room on the first floor. This is a very costly project and I would like to keep this building in good shape for a long time. Unfortunately, I’ve learned through experience that not all groups who use the school clean up after themselves. At the new parish ministry center, we would like to educate all leaders about providing snacks and drinks at their meetings while being accountable for cleaning the rooms. None of the rooms will belong to only one group. All rooms will belong to all ministries and we need to learn how to keep those rooms in good shape so everybody feels comfortable during their meetings.

Will there be a classroom with a bathroom to accommodate preschool or nursery children in the PMC? The short answer is no. Our MOPS group requested to stay in the school since they are part of the school program, and the school is already set up for the nursery and is closer to the church. We will have one changing table at the family restroom located on the first floor close to the entrance to the building.

Will the choir rehearse in the PMC? The existing library in the church will be moved to a special designated room in our PMC. It will be a comfortable place for us all to enjoy reading books, web-surfing and browsing our DVD collection. The choir ministry will continue to rehearse in the existing library. This gives the choir a chance to maintain their own extensive music library and file cabinets, and, of course, enough chairs to accommodate our music ministers. Should there be a need and the choir would like to use the PMC for some of their events or rehearsals, they are more than welcome to do so providing there is no conflict with scheduling.

How much will the entire project cost for both the PMC, Chapel and the school? It is a hard question. I don’t have firm numbers to present for the whole project. The restoration of the church and PMC will cost approximately $3,000,000. We have $400,000 in seed money. It is even more difficult to say how much the school renovation will cost. We don’t have a schematic design or specific details to share, but we assume that the cost will be between $2.5 million to $3.2 million. At this point, as we conduct our capital campaign for both projects in the amount of $6 million, we will do the work in phases. First, we need to finish the PMC and chapel then move on to school side. There are a lot of logistics behind it, which I will share at a later time.

When do we think it will be completed? We are hoping to complete restoration of the chapel and PMC by Christmas 2019. We hope to complete school project in 2020.

Is it possible to have more restrooms? I do not know the answer to this question yet. The schematic design is the first step and now we moving to construction design. At this step I will ask the architects to see if we can accommodate this request. So far we have a family restroom on first floor with changing tables. There is one men's bathroom with two stalls and one women’s restroom with two stalls. That gives us three restrooms on the first floor. On the second floor we have two restrooms. The restrooms have been designed by required building codes.

Where will overflow Mass be held when the chapel is done, will we have Mass there? No, the chapel will have space for 50 people. Overflow Masses on Christmas and Easter requires a minimum of 700 seats therefore Masses will be held in the gym as always.

Will there be any drinking fountains? Yes, we planned at least one drinking fountain for each floor.
Shouldn’t we cover the back entrance? Yes, the back entrance will have steps covered and designed for winter-time safety.

Will the doors be wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs? Yes, and we will have a handicapped platform at the chapel entrance and ministry center entrance also.

Will there be security? Yes, we are planning to install an alarm system and, if funds will allow, security cameras. Extra security measures include adding enough lights at the entrance to the building so people don't have to walk in darkness.

Why isn’t there a window in the office, we won’t be able to see who is coming in? The parish ministry center is designed in the best way possible, using every inch of the space we have. The center will have an administrator who will schedule meetings for ministries and provide assistance during their meetings. Also, all the doors to the rooms will have windows in the doors according to the safe environment requirements.

If you have more questions please do not hesitate to ask.

With prayer,
Fr. Gregory

Fr. Gregory's Homily - September 22 & 23, 2018

My Brothers and sisters in Christ.

It is a while since we purchased the original St. Peter Church and we talked about our parish and school growth. The need for the expansion for our parish and school is still the case. In last few month parish, finance and building councils have been working very hard to find the best way to accommodate our needs for expansion. A lot of work have been done behind the scenes. This weekend I would like to share with you thoughts and information on parish/school expansion.

Let’s go back in time and stop at the year 1903. Small group of Catholic Families from towns of Monument, Palmer Lake and Larkspur met once a month for Mass in the Woodmen of the World Hall in Monument (Town hall), utilizing a three legged piano as their altar. This Catholic community consisted of twelve families and was considered a mission with Fr. Raber serving as the Pastor.
These twelve families felt they could strengthen their faith if they had a more suitable place to worship. Lucy McConnel donated the land where the first church was built. On October 1911 the church project was finished.
The large portion of the church was built by the men, women and children of the parish. From that time on the 12 families have been transforming into larger community. 1950’s the parish struggle but in 1958 the people of faith St. Peter parishioners took step ahead and became small but vibrant community. The Faith Formation program, regular Masses, baptisms, weddings and funerals have been done at the small church where people gathered to worship and be together as one family. Through the years St. Peter had to expand and in its history built 3 churches and expand present church as you see it today. St. Peter parish always was and is faith filled community. One of the results of it was a new catholic school which celebrated their 10 anniversary in 2013.
Today our Goal is to obtain Support our mission, programs and ministries.
St. Peter is a thriving parish community at a time when many churches are struggling and shrinking.

Our church supports our worship and is a major source of strength. To continue growing and moving “from strength to strength,” we need to improve and expand the facilities that support our learning, our growth in faith, our support for each other and the community, and our service to God.

Some numbers are needed here. Comparing to the year 2013 when I became a pastor at St.Peter the number of families at the parish was 1,400 from which 800 are practicing regularly. Today we count 2,200 families from which 1,450 families practice their faith on regular basis. In 2013 our school accommodated 124 students and today we serve 218 students. In 2013 our parish offered 46 different ministries to the parishioners and today we offer 58. Our faith formation program grew to over 250 students including Confirmation and RCIA programs.

You might ask how do we measure the need for the expansion. Sometimes we can see plenty room in the church pews so it seems like we are fine. The measurement lies in the number of students and ministries. And these two facts are the cause for expansion. Right now the space for the students is limited and pretty soon we might have a waiting list for those who would like to enroll. The ministries meet at the church, school rectory and sometimes private homes for their meetings. Very often the school classes need to be canceled due to other events like funeral reception. Sometimes the ministries have to cancel their meetings because of the school events. Sometimes diocesan programs comes our ways and there is a need for space. The reason for the diocesan programs like Diaconate formation classes to be held at St. peter is because we are located in the middle of the diocese. Between south and north there is us. Sometimes the ministry leaders have conflict with each other due to reserved space in the school or church.

Our current facilities include the use of our St. Peter School for many of the parish ministries. We utilize the classrooms in the evenings which are not set up for ministries and creates a potentially unsafe environment for the school. Because these facilities house our programs and ministries — and the strength of our programs and ministries is essential to the strength of St. Peter — responsible stewardship compels us to take action.
Our plan is to create a welcoming ministry center and chapel using purchased original church.

It starts with the renovation of the current chapel structure with an addition of a new ministry center.

The need to renovate the chapel and add a ministry center has become an opportunity to rethink the relationship of that building to the rest of our campus and the neighborhood. With its central role and location, we envision the chapel and ministry center as a hub that offers community space for our ministries, allows other outside groups meeting space and unifies our campus that will make it more welcoming to all.

We have a vital and vibrant church community. This ought to be revealed in the entrances to all of our buildings and the rooms within them. We will create a building that encourages involvement and gathering spaces to foster fellowship. The addition of this much needed space will dramatically increase and improve the available gathering spaces, providing more varied options to accommodate groups up to 175. Every event, program and project we undertake will benefit.
The dreams is to finish this project by the next fall. As I said we did some work behind the scenes and today we have ready for you the floor plan and building rendering. You can find them in the vestibule or our website.
I would like to be very transparent about this project. There is special website created and you can find there all information from beginning and we will continue to provide updates as clear as possible. You can find there all the financial and architectural documents.

This is the first phase of this expansion project. The second phase is add space to our school.

In general we think of adding sitting space at the gym, add a cafeteria for students so they have proper place to eat lunch, above the cafeteria extra one or two classrooms and replace of the existing lecture hall with new structure which will provide bigger space for Lecture hall and extra classrooms above the Lecture Hall. This second phase need to wait till we are advanced in the first phase. Our Dream is to finish second and last phase in 2020 or beginning of 2021.

I’m guessing some other pastors would stop here and ask you for money to complete these projects. I can’t do that now. I do not know how to ask you and convince you, that this project is needed. I do not know where your heart is now in the light of the church scandals. I do not know your life circumstances. I need to rely on your advice, on your judgment toward this project. I want to be 100% transparent and I want to hear from you. The Parish and Finance council who represents you is supporting this project. Our Bishop Michael Sheridan and Town of Monument is supportive and they give a permission to proceed. At this time my appeal to you is to pray over it, think about it and let’s decide together how we can have this work done. Next weekend I will be available at the original church after all Masses, for gathering and discussing this project. I would love to answer all your questions and share with you what we have done so far in details.

Today after Mass please stop at the vestibule to see the plans and drawings.

Thank you for listening and in advance I thank you for your prayers.

Fr. Gregory

April 12, 2018 Presentation to the Diocesan Building Committee