Bisbee daily review., 1916-03-24
PRESBYTERIANS WILL MAKE ADDITIONS n
 CHURCH IN BISpEE
Two Wings VIII Be Added to Local Edihce to Furnish Ac- commodations for Various Classes in Work.

The members Of the Presbyterian
 Church at a recent congregational
 meeting decided to enlarge and i'm prove their present church building.
 For some time the Sunday School has needed extra rooms for it's work as fourteen classes are meeting at pres
 ent in the one large room while Be
 ginners' class meets in the pastors study This has made satisfactory
 work in the school impossible The
 Mems Bible class has been making demand since it's organization for a separate room where it may carry on its work on larger scale. The Christian EndeavOr Society has long faithfully labOred under the handicap of having no special room for it's
 meetings Realizing the needs of these several organizations it has been decided to add wing to each
 side of the church building at the rear which will supply the needed extra rooms. The additions will be in keeping with the present main build
 ing but will necessitate some changes
 in the furnishing of the main room. The seats now being used will be
 placed in the additions and pews will
 be put in the main room. The choir
 box will be changed so as to give ac-
 cess to the west wing. While this work is being done certain much needed repairing of the main building will be done. The estimated total
 cost for additions and improvements
 and repairs is seventy-five hundred dollars.
 The present building, which was complete in 1903, was erected at no
 cost whatever to the citizens of the
 district the funds for the erection be-
 ing supplied by certain individual
 members of the Copper Queen Mining
 company and the building being deed
 ed to the congregation. Two of these
 individuals, Mr w. F. Dodge and Mir
 Willis James. have died since the
 erection of the building and are held
 in grateful remembrance for their splendid Christian character. The
 members of the church have shown
 their appreciation of the gift of tho building by meeting all the expenses
 of it's upkeep and that of carrying on
 the work Of the church without out
 side help. In fact. the work has been
 entirely self-supporting from the first
 and today, in addition to meeting all it's own expenses. the congregation
 raises about five hundred dollars a year for outside work.
 Recognizing the need for an en- larged and better equipped building.
 the members Of the church are giving liberally 10 attain the desired end and through the trustees are pushing the campaign for the necessary funds. But the members, while realizing that upon them must fall the heaviest re- sponsibility in meeting the cost of the proposed improvements, believe that
 the city in general has been benefit , ted by the presence of this organiza- tion and building in the district and that many of the citizens will desire
 10 have a part in making this work more efficient through the obtaining of the better equipped building. The trustees have decided to raise the needed funds by direct giving. They
 have organized themselves in teams
 of two. among whom have been divid-
 ed the membership of the church for careful canvass. Cards on which one may make a pledge paying in
 six monthly installments beginning with April are being used by the solicitors It is hoped that there will l be a generous response, not only from