well to what's going on my name is dolores b doll happy to be with you again today and i have the pleasure of these two gentlemen who are with me today born and raised here pretty close to it yes and most of my life and then emigrated to florida for a while but you know had the good sense to return after a while and now he's quite happy here in the community aren't you i am it's but it's worked out very well for us that's good at you have a wife and three children have a wife and three children i have my oldest daughter who is  graduating college tomorrow i my son eric who is nineteen who has down syndrome and has been you know adopted by this community on every level he's like the mayor of beaumont and my youngest daughter in moree is a sophomore  belmont high school so we're very invested in the community that's wonderful yes well glad to have you back home thank you it's good and two children i do i think you need to go home to move into the community absolutely so tell us a little bit about what you'll plant where is the church and try and tell us about the work you've done to get it ready and sure  well right on lexington street just up the street from where we are right now there's an old white neighborhood church it was built in eight hundred ninety six it was built as waverly unitarian church and we've seen some pictures there some old historic photos of the dedication lexington street is all dirt and there's a few hundred people and how boys here they have a horse here and there are several and so the church the building is housed at many churches over the years that it has been open most recently it house a church called crossroads even jellicoe church that church stop meeting in october of two thousand and thirteen and we have had the opportunity to open a new campus of our church mount hope which currently meets in burlington here in that building in belmont so there's been a lot of resident renovation work that's needed to take place if there is any code that exists that building was out of it in many cases and so there's been a lot of work to the systems of the building and a lot of it's cleaning work general cleaning and getting the building up and running it's a beautiful building it's a beautiful little neighborhood church has a lot of potential and we're looking forward to being there and do you need people to help you still with whatever what needs to be done to get ready for september thirteenth if you need any assistance from us active cooperative people sure more cleaning work painting work you know interior walls things like that we would love to have volunteers come and help us finish up probably in june and july in those states yeah nice lovely  day activity right i just think that for us i mean like we talked about earlier i've been back in belmont now for ten years just about ten years to the day two thousand and five we moved back here and at that point i knew about the brawling to church so we plugged it in because i have family members there my nephew was one of the past is up there and that's when i met pastor brian and so we were very involved in that and that church and then one day i forget how long ago was but i was up at egg called into the office but he calls me into his office and passive writing comes in and they said we we want to throw something by end he said we have this opportunity to our open up campus in belmont at this old church and i knew about this church because i actually attended a men's bible study here a few times not too long ago before it closed and they asked me because we're very invested in the community we know a lot of people i've every body knows my son eric in the community and they asked us if we would be part of the team to the mission team to watch that church and to belmont and i was so excited i could actually i mean it was hard for me to contain my excitement because for me to be back here i was born and raised here i went to church i made all my you know good you know catholic duties as a young man my first holy communion and my confirmation right here and i at st joe's now to be pad of a different judge and to be part of the leadership team to launch that church and to tell about the message of my own hope which is basically transforming lives to jesus christ and be a pot of that was just so exciting to myself and my wife and we we were we were right on board with that you know right away and so and to be in this area which we talked about earlier which is actually the most entrenched area in the country and to be here and to be part of this and to bring the message of this church is something that my wife and i just you know the road to be part of the world to be part of that's wonderful yeah i'm so glad thank you it's exciting  so past of ryan did you tell me there was going to be some sort of golf there is a navy is yet to help finish up the renovation work and to get this building completed on time we have one final fundraiser that's coming up so june twenty fourth to wednesday how did sandy berger country club which is in wayland will be having a golf tournament a golf a four man scramble  golf outing and this is actually the fifth year that we've done an outing every year it's benefited different aspects of our organization and so this year all the money will go towards helping with the renovation project here in belmont and if anyone is interested in registering they can go to it's w w w dot mt hope which is all spelled out in the u n t h o p e dot org slash golf two thousand and fifteen or if they ever wanted to stop by the building here in belmont we have plenty of information on that as well but it's one last opportunity to raise the final funds and people have been very generous through this process and we've been able to do quite a bit of work over there because of that and so this is our last little push to get it all completed so we can open this fall let's create that inspiring us actually in these days when there's so many negative things going on that our attention seems to be drifting toward inevitably be it by and by written form by whatever it's nice to know that something in our very own communities going forward in this vein you know really is good so now the school the chuch and burning ten has a school attached to it tonight and you folks won't so you're going to burlington is a church and a school and this the school has existed for about thirty years there burlington mt hope christian school and they have close to three hundred preschool and elementary school students it's a great school i'll tell you the not quite as quiet no very busy it's not a quiet search during the week absolutely very busy and one of the things that's always marked mount hope in burlington is a desire to find ways to serve the  community that we're a part of we asked the founding pastor of the church why he started the school in the early eighty's and he said we were trying to find a way to serve the community and we felt like at the  time that a private school could be a great way to serve the community it was a need that we saw and so we we found a way to serve the community and that's really the same mindset that we want to come and start with belmont i recognize that i'm new to the community jos not many of our other attendees or not but as a as a group of people meeting were new to the community and we want to come in to serve the community not impose ourselves on the community which i think and how can  happen sometimes with church groups we're not looking to do that we're looking to find ways that we can really serve belmont and if there are needs that we can help meet that maybe aren't being met places that we can help people we would like to do that and do that well this church if you drive by the church on lexington street there's no parking spaces and the reason is because it was built as a neighborhood church and we still want to function as a neighborhood church and even if not  everyone attends the church we still want to be good neighbors and find ways to to be a real asset to the community and to the to the neighborhood as well and we hope some people will join us on sunday mornings too so there are people who are housebound deployed example who conned quite make it to the kitchen but need some form of regular companionship and may have families that live clearly across the country or world for that matter  are there some some home visiting services that can be provided that are not necessarily health related in the traditional sense of i these will whatever but rather a connection with the world an right humans right do you do those kinds of things as we learn about this and if the situation is is present itself as a good opportunity absolutely would be we'd be open to to something like that  i think i think not only in belmont but certainly in belmont there's an aging community and not necessarily technologically sophisticated and pressing buttons all day so the isolation could be great i mean and that's what occurs to me when i don't i don't have any facts or figures to produce at this moment cos i can any time o i just thought you know that that might be sure and i think something that occurs to me i think that there are a lot of people that can't get out and can't can't get to but they still want to hear the word of god and like you said they may not have th you know find out about this situations and help because that's the one thing that i really like about my church is that the way it brings itself into the community where it is and we're not a church that just going to show up on sunday and then go home for the week and they'll see him next sunday we're church that wants to be a ball with in any way we can with youth with the adults with you know our citizens who can't who may be disabled for one reason or another and we just want to make sure that we are involved in that let people know that way here you know not just one day away but it's not you know let's see what happens it's let's build this let's let's build that around the community because that's that's what it's all about is the community so you sound like a good egg and you get everybody