Charrette

A charrette is a fancy French. The French word, "charrette" means "cart" and is often used to describe the final, intense work effort expended by art and architecture students to meet a project deadline. This use of the term is said to originate from the École des Beaux Arts in Paris during the 19th century, where proctors circulated a cart, or “charrette”, to collect final drawings while students frantically put finishing touches on their work...a word referring to an intense architect session.

I had never heard of the word but I am excited about the results. Monday and Tuesday night a team of people gathered together to develop the master plan. I like to refer to it as the Master's Plan. This team included the building committee, members of the church staff, members of the finance committee, our builder, our architect, Bill Wilson from CCS and Jeff Otero from Strategic Dimensions that led the process http://www.strategicdimensions.com/.

If you are like me you are probably wondering what was accomplished. Serious attention was given to placement of buildings, phases and finances. You should be seeing some exciting news coming out soon but I just wanted to give you a warning so you can fasten your seat belt. What I have seen is very exciting, well thought out and allows more ministry than I ever thought possible on this campus. The buildin g committee has done a great job!

If you have questions e-mail ejent@fbconcord.org. It might be something we should blog about later.