Upon entering
building, one is ushered into an Adult Play Room with antique
Brunswick pool table, Ping-Pong table (better yet: design
Ping-Pong top for pool table), multiple game tables, etc.
The walls of this room are filled with books, and a cozy fireplace
on one wall or corner allows space for a small group to gather
and meet.
At the far end of the room from
where one enters, there are two sets of doors on either side
of the wall. Taking those doors ushers one into the major
lecture/worship space of CANAAN, the Great Hall.
The Great SpiritAdventure Hall
Built
on the mountainside sloping downward, this space is approximately
40' by 40', allowing approximately 180 people to gather here.
It has +10- steps three feet or so across going down to an
upfront space where is found the lectern, musical instruments
(piano, synthesizer, drums), and communion table. Everyone's
attention is drawn to a massively huge and interesting stone
fireplace.
Windows are everywhere, classic Hubbell style, with four chandeliers
hanging down from the vaulted ceiling. (In the back the ceiling
would be quite low, toward the front quite high.) There is
provision also for floodlights from the ceiling.
In the back, designed so as to appear as a remote "holler"
or miner's cabin, is the projection room and sound system
headquarters. Absolutely critical to the success of this space
is the sound. Indeed, the room should be built for sound first
of all, with perhaps the piano doubling also as a player piano
that can be programmed from the sound room to play tapes.
(There are electronic kits that will make pianos into player
pianos).
Huge pillows will need some storage area so that when people
enter they can go and pick out their pillow(s). A place to
store hymnals and songbooks and Bibles and other such things
Hiding up front somewhere (built into the fireplace?) should
also be a giant screen that can be pulled down.
Director's
Quarters
Attached to the side of this
building is the first living quarters of CANAAN, a three bedroom
with office loft space that could be the headquarters of the
ministry until Mountain Manor was built. This would mean that
the kitchen would need to be extra large to accommodate cooking
for 30-40, as well as the living room and dining space able
to accommodate the same (buffet style, not sit down).
This living space could host
small groups like Wintercadence is now doing until Mountainside
Manor becomes available.
