Welcome to our Building as of 7-22-10  Blessings this Summer

There are always a need for volunteers to help with the upkeep of our facility. Our immediate needs are:

• Help to clean out 3rd floor office space. We have this scheduled this summer
• Strip and wax our first floor terrazzo. 
• Clean carpeting.  This is scheduled for the week of 8-16 to 8-20

If you are led to make a monetary gift to a specific project, here are a few suggestions:

• Fabric for stage curtains $300
• Microphone cords $200

 The Preschool & Kindergarten is going green!

• 10-T8 ceiling light fixtures $75 each
• The playground is having a fencing make over.  100 wood pickets, $2 each

Received gift contributions. Thank You!:

• tumbling mats for the school $325-anonymous donor
• pentax 10x50 binoculars to view building details $60-anonymous donor
• compact florescent light bulbs $40-anonymous donor
• water cooler  $300-anonymous donor

 two pictures below show the tuck pointing restoration

began this fall

First Baptist Church of Oak Park's present facility was built in 1921 with the Community Center and Preschool added in 1927. It was designed by E. E. Roberts, a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright's.

Our Church has undergone many renovations in the past ten years. Our Gifts of Glory Campaign has made possible the restoration of our sanctuary, organ, sound ministry, chapel, dining room, parlor, handicap accessible washrooms, and handicap ramp.

  Four leaded story windows from our
Preschool and Kindergarten circa 1927

 Florence Nightingale with her candle is flanked by Abraham Lincoln holding the broken chains and the Declaration of Emancipation (left) and George Washington Carver (right) with the significant symbols of his work, the retort and peanut plant.  This shows the Christian as nurse, statesman, and scientist.

Sanctuary east window