Emerging Kristin

I have a number of photos of St. Olaf’s. In this photo you get a sense of the size of the church – it can seat about 225 people. I find the “ceiling ribs” to be one of the church’s outstanding features. In one of my classes that focused on church architecture, these “ribs” are to remind us of the hull of Noah’s ark.

In this photo you can the rear view of the sanctuary. The attendance drops off as the winter grows more intense, after Christmas. They would like to say there is an average of 250 people attending over two services on a Sunday. My experience would suggest about 80 and 140 … but possibly the balance would be the Sunday School attendance which can be as high 30 children. Sunday School is between services. There is only a small number of children who attend the 11:00 service in terms of coming forward for the weekly children’s sermon.

Here is a photo of part of the narthex. You’ll see a room – this is the library. Click on this link so that you can see more photos of St. Olaf’s. About 15+ years ago they put a significant addition onto the church. This did not affect the sanctuary or office area. This church has the largest narthex I have ever seen – wonderful for fellowship. The elevator is on the right side.

For as much as there is lots of room in the narthex, the actual fellowship hall is downstairs. If you check out the photos you will see you enter on one level, go a full flight upstairs to the sanctuary or a full flight downstairs to the Sunday School rooms, youth room, storage rooms and fellowship hall and kitchen. There is an elevator.

This isn’t a very good photo, but it is the only one that begins to show you the size of the kitchen. It is three rooms big. It is so fantastic that I can’t believe a church council listened so carefully to go to the expense of creating a highly functioning space. It is a fully commercial kitchen … and it is used a lot! Check out the photos to see the design.