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A crew and equipment from Roll’n M Construction level the pad for the new Parish Hall the week of January 10, 2016. Photo: Gayle Gardner.

A considerable amount of fill had to be brought to the site to make up for the lot’s slope down from Florey Street. For easy access, the finished floor of the new Parish Hall will be at the same level as the finished floor of the remodeled Office Area.  A later part of this project will be stairs going up to a door to enter the Parish Hall from the lower parking area. Eventually the old retaining wall between Pilgrim’s original property and the more-recently acquired lots will need to be replaced and the lower parking area paved.

From left are Steven Sampson, David Navaille, Edgar Wuthrich, the title company representative, Brady Gage, Danny Sampson, Kathy Hudson, and Remo Gualtieri. (Thanks go to the title company staff member who took the picture.)

Officers and Board and Committee members specified by Pilgrim’s Constitution and the terms of the loan participated in the closing of the loan for the new Parish Hall on January 8, 2016, in Kilgore. The loan for the new Parish Hall is through the Texas District Church Extension Fund. Members of Pilgrim and of other congregations, as well as the Pilgrim congregation and congregations like Pilgrim, invest with CEF, usually making better returns than other similar investment vehicles, and, in turn, CEF loans congregations such as Pilgrim money to improve their facilities, usually at interest rates better than banks can offer. A borrowing congregation’s level of supporting investment with CEF can even earn a rebate of some of the already-low interest.