The Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, the Right Reverend John Harrower, will tomorrow get his hands dirty at the building works for the new Wellspring Church development in Sandy Bay.<\/p>\n
With foundations currently going in, a section of the old hall will be removed to make way for new buildings.<\/p>\n
The new $3 million Wellspring Church will adjoin St Peter\u2019s Church in Sandy Bay and includes a 330-person worship centre, new meeting rooms and offices, as well as restorative works on the historic St Peter\u2019s building.<\/p>\n
The Church is being built to accommodate the rapid expansion at Wellspring, now one of the largest Anglican churches in Tasmania.\u00a0 Wellspring Church currently has around 300 people attend each week and is home to a number of youth\/student parishioners and a Chinese language congregation, with many international students.<\/p>\n
Wellspring Church is the merger of the previous BayWest (St Peter\u2019s Sandy Bay) and Holy Trinity North Hobart congregations in 2007.\u00a0 Since the merger, numbers have grown about 40%.<\/p>\n
Bishop Harrower said he was excited to see the new development take shape.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecently we have had significant renovations to Anglican churches and now we have the first new Anglican church building in Hobart since St Clement\u2019s Kingston in the 1980s. This is a clear sign of a healthy growing local church.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be able to come and support this wonderful bringing together of our historic past with an exciting future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bishop Harrower will be available on site at Wellspring Church (corner of Grosvenor and Lord Streets, Sandy Bay) at 10am, Friday 4 May<\/span>.\u00a0 Media are asked to come to the Lord St entrance to the building site.<\/strong><\/p>\n Contact: <\/strong>Media Officer – Rev. Stephen Carnaby\u00a0\u00a0 0417 343 710<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MEDIA ADVISORY: BISHOP GETS HANDS DIRTY AT NEW CHURCH BUILDING WORKS The Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, the Right Reverend John Harrower, will tomorrow get his hands dirty at the building works for the new Wellspring Church development in Sandy Bay. … Continue reading