This part of the church was opened in 1926 at a cost of $420,000. The pastor at the time, Dr. R Lincoln Long formally called it the Community House because it "is not only intended for the service of our congregation but of the entire community..."
The gymnasium has seen many
basketball championships won
and lost.
It is still used today by neighborhood men a couple afternoons a week and
by local school children several times a week in the evenings.
It is also used by a girls broom ball team.
The third floor is complete with girls and boys locker rooms. It is occupied several weeks a year by people participating in Family Promise (a traveling homeless shelter for families). It is also used by FOCUS and their Toledo Service Project for sleeping and eating quarters while students from all over the country come for a week or a weekend to assist people in our area painting, yard work, home repair.
