Drinking Fountain for Foster Park
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WE NOW HAVE TO RAISE $4300 INSTEAD OF OUR ORIGINAL $2900 GOAL. INITIALLY PARKS & REC THOUGHT THEY COULD INSTALL IT ON THE BUILDING (THE CHEAPER OPTION), BUT THEY CANNOT. UPDATE FROM HAROLD ARMOUR OF LANSING PARKS & REC:
"If it was doable, a fountain on the building would be ($2900). The cost of the fountain, mainly, and the install. However, there is not a suitable location on the building with access to water and waste, so that leaves us with the nearest possible location being on the back side near our existing manhole. This would save the excavation costs as well as dry well costs, with O&M’s participation. But the concrete costs for the pad and the mounting bracket and the fountain are still going to put the costs close to $4000.00 plus or minus. So you may want to get going with the fund raising again and let us know so we can plan accordingly."
(The $4300 fundraiser total is so after GoFundMe takes their fee % out, we'll have $4000 to give Parks & Rec.)
I live a block from Foster Park, one of Lansing's poorest neighborhoods. Our church (Crossroads Church) has done an awesome summer ministry at Foster Park the past 10 years where we play games, serve dinner and do Bible study small groups with 50-60 kids/teens each week all summer long. Many of these youth now attend our church regularly. The park is hopping all the time with kids on the playground and older teens and adults on the basketball court. I've been playing basketball in the hot sun all summer with those guys when I realized a major problem: there is no drinking fountain at this park!
I've been leading a Bible study on Sundays at 5pm at the Garden Project building at Foster Park made up of Christians who live in the neighborhood. Our group decided to raise money to have Lansing Parks & Rec install a water fountain at Foster Park. Brett Kaschinske, Lansing's Parks and Recreation Director, has given us the green light to raise this money and if we can get it raised, a fountain will be installed!
This is more than just helping kids and adults from dehydrating (though that's important too!), this is showing a neighborhood in need of Jesus that their Christain neighbors care about them! That we are truly "loving our neighbor" as Jesus tells us to, opening new doors for the gospel, as well as validating and strengthening the many doors that are already open from the relationships we've built over the past 10 years.
Pray for us as we seek to bring Jesus's Kingdom to this neighborhood! Pray that his kingdom will come and his will will be done at Foster Park like it is done in heaven. This drinking fountain is a powerful way to help make that happen.
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
"If it was doable, a fountain on the building would be ($2900). The cost of the fountain, mainly, and the install. However, there is not a suitable location on the building with access to water and waste, so that leaves us with the nearest possible location being on the back side near our existing manhole. This would save the excavation costs as well as dry well costs, with O&M’s participation. But the concrete costs for the pad and the mounting bracket and the fountain are still going to put the costs close to $4000.00 plus or minus. So you may want to get going with the fund raising again and let us know so we can plan accordingly."
(The $4300 fundraiser total is so after GoFundMe takes their fee % out, we'll have $4000 to give Parks & Rec.)
I live a block from Foster Park, one of Lansing's poorest neighborhoods. Our church (Crossroads Church) has done an awesome summer ministry at Foster Park the past 10 years where we play games, serve dinner and do Bible study small groups with 50-60 kids/teens each week all summer long. Many of these youth now attend our church regularly. The park is hopping all the time with kids on the playground and older teens and adults on the basketball court. I've been playing basketball in the hot sun all summer with those guys when I realized a major problem: there is no drinking fountain at this park!
I've been leading a Bible study on Sundays at 5pm at the Garden Project building at Foster Park made up of Christians who live in the neighborhood. Our group decided to raise money to have Lansing Parks & Rec install a water fountain at Foster Park. Brett Kaschinske, Lansing's Parks and Recreation Director, has given us the green light to raise this money and if we can get it raised, a fountain will be installed!
This is more than just helping kids and adults from dehydrating (though that's important too!), this is showing a neighborhood in need of Jesus that their Christain neighbors care about them! That we are truly "loving our neighbor" as Jesus tells us to, opening new doors for the gospel, as well as validating and strengthening the many doors that are already open from the relationships we've built over the past 10 years.
Pray for us as we seek to bring Jesus's Kingdom to this neighborhood! Pray that his kingdom will come and his will will be done at Foster Park like it is done in heaven. This drinking fountain is a powerful way to help make that happen.
John 4:13-14 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Organizer
Noah Filipiak
Organizer
Lansing, MI