THORNTON — Thornton will soon have a new church, thanks to volunteers and church members.
Gary Weaver, pastor of the On Target Church, said although the church won’t be completed in time, he wants to hold Easter services. Easter falls on April 4 this year.
“We’re a church that started assembling outside during the pandemic,” he said. “This Easter, we will be celebrating a one-year church anniversary.”
Weaver said one of the church members, a member of the local volunteer fire department, wanted to have an egg drop at this year’s Easter services.
“Our local volunteer fire department doesn’t have a truck with a bucket, so the Kingwood Volunteer Fire Department is going to do it for us,” he said.
“Since we started building the church, we’ve gotten a lot more members,” Chuck Bell, who is supervising the construction, said. He said church members have risen from eight or 10 to nearly 100.
Bell said when the post-and-beam church is completed, it will be 60 feet wide and 104 feet long. He said the sanctuary will be 60-by-56 feet. The building will also house classrooms and a fellowship hall.
Bell said the water lines and sewer lines went in last week.
He said members of the church and volunteers are doing all of the construction work.
Bell said local companies have donated the equipment they need to do the job.
“We’ve definitely been blessed,” he said. “Sand Hill LLC and Jennings Excavating helped with equipment, and members of the community and the church have donated.”
Kenny Shahan, owner of Mystic Views Campground, donated two-plus acres to the church.
Bell said there is no definite date set for the completion, but he thinks it will be sometime this fall.
The church is at 475 Meadow View Lane in Thornton, next to the Mystic Views Campground.
For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/ontargetchurch/. Building donations via check can be sent to On Target Church, PO Box 54, Thornton, WV 26440.
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