The United Church of Canada
L’Eglise Unie du Canada
Maritime Conference Office
21 Wright Street, Sackville, NB E4L 4P8
Tel. (506)536-1334 • Fax (506) 536-2900 • Email: info@marconf.ca
BUILDING AND FUNDRAISING UPDATE
Maritime Conference Centre Brochure
December 2014
The Maritime Conference Centre has proven to be a very serviceable building, providing a base of operations and office space for staff, as well as a flexible meeting space for a host of church and community groups. In addition, the new Archives space has been able to receive 80 linear metres of additional archival materials from congregations in the region as well has housing materials from a number of rental clients.
Meeting space users include:
Mi’kmaq/Maliseet Bachelor of Social Work Program (St. Thomas University)
Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network (ACORN) Annual Meeting
Chignecto Naturalists Mount Allison Faculty Association
Performers Company Tantramar Hospice
Kairos Pneuma Chaplaincy Chignecto Presbytery (various groups)
Sackville United Church (various groups) Tatamagouche Centre
Atlantic Jubilee Women in Ministry retreat day
Financial Services of Maritime Conference Godly Play Maritimes
KAIROS Atlantic Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Archives clients include:
Moncton Museum Cumberland County Museum and Archives
General Council Archives Live Bait Theatre
Canadian Music Centre
The building has proven to be quite efficient, if not completely cutting-edge. The building is well insulated, including the concrete floor slab. Roof-mounted air-to-air heat pumps provide both heating and cooling, while natural gas fired in-floor heat provides supplemental heat when outside temperatures plummet. The building committee chose not to invest in expensive cutting-edge technology, but rather to design the building to be able to retrofit technology once its performance has been proven. Even so, the building utility costs are approximately one-half that of a typical commercial building.
Many individuals and congregations have continued to honour their pledges to the fundraising project. The Conference fundraising thermometer presently stands at $770,963: http://marconf.ca/about-us/fundraising2/.
Included in this figure is
$340,650.88 in pledged donations from individuals
$48,809.53 in pledged donations from Pastoral Charges
$150,592.62 received from sales of church property
Not included in this figure is
$150,000 anticipated gift from Margaret McCain
Pledged funds that are expected to be contributed over the next few years amount to $258,402.
The current value of the mortgage is $1.67 million, down from the original $1.9 million.
As reported earlier, Conference has been able to make an extra payment towards principal of $150,000, the effect of which has been to save $426,000 in interest costs and reduce the term of the mortgage by 3 years and 9 months!
The fundraising team will continue working with a focus on the annual opportunity to pay down principal. Please watch for future communications from the fundraising team, and please offer all possible support!
Please go to http://marconf.ca/about-us/fundraising2/ for more information on the fundraising project and to see the list of donor individuals and churches.
Can you help?
Please continue to spread the word about donations to this fundraising project. Every little bit helps, and together the various donations will have a dramatic effect in reducing interest costs and shortening the time in which payment will need to be made.
For a pledge form, please go to
http://sunriseweb.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Invitation-to-pledge.pdf
For more information, please contact…
David Hewitt
Executive Secretary
Maritime Conference
21 Wright Street
Sackville, NB
E4L 4P8
dhewitt@marconf.ca
506-536-1334
These pictures of the Maritime Conference Centre building were taken this week by Clark Brander. Very little snow in Sackville N.B.
