Calvary Baptist Church holds ground-breaking service for its new Ministry Center

WARWICK — On Sunday, May 22, Pastor Rev. Craig Adams, Town of Warwick Supervisor Michael Sweeton, members of Calvary Baptist Church and other guests attended a ground-breaking service for a new Ministry Center behind the church facility at 5 Wisner Road.
The 9,400-square-foot building will include a youth room, gymnasium and storage rooms. The church plans to use this space for adult basketball and volleyball, children's programs and a safe place that seniors can come to walk.
"We are here today excited to finally be breaking ground on a project that we have been working on for years," Adams said. "There were times we wondered if this day would ever come. The fact that it has makes this day even more exciting. God has worked through each of us to make this beginning a reality."
Adams recalled that when he came here in 1996 they were planning to build a gym but never got traction for the project.
Finally in 2009, they started to get some traction and make headway but the economy tanked and things were on hold again.
But during all of this there were a few people working in the background trying to keep things moving.
"It seemed like we were never going to build," he said. "God's people kept giving and working towards the Center and finally things progressed to where we could bring the project to the church. At our meeting on April 20, we voted unanimously to build."
People have been giving for years and the church has raised more than $4000,000 for the project, which could be completed as early as this fall.
In his sermon, Adams told the Bible story of King David, who wanted desperately to build a Temple to honor God and gave all of his vast wealth as king towards this project:
"There are many here," said Adams, "who have been storing up what is needed for this Ministry Center to be built to honor God. Some gave sacrificially as an expression of their love for God. For a church the size of ours, that says a lot about our desire to see this Ministry Center built to help share Jesus to the community we love. It shows our desire to show people we care about them because God cares about all of us."
- Roger Gavan