Building Project

The History

Rugged Cross Tabernacle has rented various buildings over the years for our worship services. All of them have been in the Chugiak Alaska area. Beginning at the old CBA schoolhouse which served us for many years, then the schoolhouse annex building (shed) next door that the Church fixed up. This building many remember for the quaint heating system. Ask Bro. Frank about preaching over the noise of the space heater sometime. The landlord raised the rent for this spot and then eventually asked us to leave.

From there we went to the Saddler furniture building just down the road a mile or so. This building seemed to be made up of military re-locatable buildings stuck together. We rented a quarter of this place but had the run of the entire unit. Also cold and somewhat draughty we remodeled the sanctuary area to remove some of the area that we had to heat (and the rooflines from the other parts of the buildings jutting out).

We then moved to downtown Eagle River to the United Lumber building. This was on Main Street and was by far our best location for visibility. Of course we had to remodel and spend some money on the place. Rent began to go up here as well as our other locations and we moved again to our present location on Sherman Road near Sister Ruby's house.

The building we are in now was originally built to be a church but only the lower level was built. We have spent a bit of money on upgrades to this place as well. The roof is actually meant to be the floor of the upper story and was only intended to be a roof temporarily. Because of this the "roof" has occasionally leaked or maybe steadily leaked is a better way to put it, and has made for some soggy moments. Attempts were made to buy this building but the owners valued it more than we felt it was worth. We moved out of this building for a while going back to the CBA school house with the idea we would save some money but the comfort level of the Sherman road building won out and we have returned more determined than ever to have our own building.

The Church purchased a three-acre parcel at the base of Bear Mountain four years ago that was a nice location but proved to be unbuildable due to road engineering in the area. We sold this to a home builder and have made a fair profit.

With the purchase of 2.5 acres on south Birchwood loop and the building of our own 9600 square foot log building Rugged Cross Tabernacle's wandering days are over. Please come visit and worship the Lord with us

UPDATE!

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Praise the Lord! our building is back on track and will be ready for dedication in July of 2003. The main floor with the sanctuary and offices is 90% complete with sound system and computer networking left to finish. Downstairs will take more work to set up classrooms and kitchen areas.Please continue to pray for our building project.