V. FACILITIES AND USE

CHURCH AND RECTORY

Trinity Church is located on approximately four acres of land on Ryers Lane, Matawan, NJ. The property has a rectory, church building, parking lot, playground and meditation garden.

The rectory is a four-bedroom ranch built in 1972. The house has a living room, dining room, family room with fireplace, kitchen, 2 1/2 bathrooms, attached two-car garage and a full basement with interior and exterior access.

The church building, which was complete in 1968, is a load-bearing arch structure, 55 feet wide by 185 feet long. The layout of the building can be envisioned as follows:

The main door located in the center of the structure leads into the narthex. Straight ahead, there is a door to a full-working kitchen. To the right is the entrance to the sanctuary, beyond which are the offices of the rectory and church secretary. Directly opposite the sanctuary entrance from the narthex are doors leading into the "working area" of Trinity. This side of the building includes a vesting/meeting room that can be divided by a folding screen as needed, six Sunday School classrooms, the choir room and the Chapel. The Chapel houses a Columbarium with ?? niches. At the very end of the hallway, with exterior doors to the parking lot, is a large Parish Hall which has a small bathroom of its own.

A central air-conditioning system cools the sanctuary; the offices and other rooms of the building are equipped with window a/c units.

Extensive renovations of the church building undertaken in recent years include a new furnace, replacement of all windows with new energy-saving windows and replacement of the building's original cedar shake exterior with vinyl siding over energy-saving insulation panels. Most of this work was paid for by members of the Trinity congregation in fundraising campaigns. Currently, we are holding a "This Little Light of Mine" campaign to replace the buildings lighting with energy saving fixtures.

USE OF FACILITIES

Our Parish Hall, when not in use for Trinity activities, is utilized by A.A. and Al Anon for meetings, with donations collected at those meetings given to Trinity. We regard this arrangement is an extension of our outreach to the community.

The Vestry is exploring the potential of generating revenue by making the Parish Hall available for use by other organizations on a fee basis.