Accessibility at Covenant

Making Space for Many Members of One Body

Covenant is creating new pathways for people with and without disabilities to experience welcome, find spaces of belonging, and to worship and fellowship alongside each other as Christ intended.

February 2025 Update: Thank you to those who have already made initial financial commitments to support our push for accessibility at Covenant! We are excited to share an update on both the building project and fundraising and will continue sharing our progress on a monthly basis. 

BUILDING UPDATE

• We are finalizing plans and drawings in partnership with Present Future Architects.
• In addition to the bidding process, we will submit the drawings to the city for permitting in the coming weeks. We anticipate the permit process to take approximately three months.
• Groundbreaking remains dependent on the progress of our fundraising efforts.

FUNDRAISING UPDATE

• Project Budget: $2,400,000 (based on pre-construction estimates). 
• Funds Raised To Date: $1,052,783 (both contributed and pledged to the project)

THE INVITATION

Prayerfully consider how you might make a financial contribution to support this important initiative. You can choose to give by clicking “Give Now.”

Give Now

If you’d like to make a pledge to be fulfilled by the end of the year, please complete the pledge form below.

While our beautiful and historic property is an important part of our identity as a community, as long as our physical building is restricted to people without disabilities, the Covenant church body remains incomplete. 

Motivated by the words of 1 Corinthians 12, we believe that structural changes situated within a larger accessibility commitment and a plan of action will ensure that Covenant is open for all to encounter Christ and experience his love.

The Plan

After thoughtful consideration to improving accessibility, and a thorough structural assessment of our masonry, we have identified a path forward that will have a lasting impact on the life of our church body. Improvements include:

Sanctuary:

• Updated & accessible restrooms
• Accessible street level entrance
• Elevator access to the sanctuary and basement
• Expanded narthex 
• Ramp to chancel

Education Building:

• Accessible entrance & ramp to main floor
• Updated & accessible restrooms

image renderings of project:

The cost to complete this project, including maintenance to masonry to support key structural changes, is estimated at $2.4 million.

You can read more about the vision behind this project in this letter from Pastor Aaron.

We look to create a shared vision for our future as God’s church at Covenant. From our Sunday morning services, to the way we care for and serve each child, we look to define, make available, and communicate accommodations that meet the needs of all, reflecting God’s gracious and peaceable kingdom.

1 Corinthians 12:14, 22-26

 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.