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class is meeting at the Rappahannock Medical Center. Mr, Barton said there are families not worshipping at Trinity because of inadequate Sunday School space.
The church itself presents another problem. There are few services in which all seats are taken, but there are many when the church appears full since a family coming shortly before the start of worship will find no empty or nearly empty pews.
To help alleviate that problem Trinity started this week with a third Sunday service at 9:15 a.m., in addition to the 8 a.m. and 11 a.m. services. The third service is geared towards families with young children. The Rev. Jennings Hobson, rector of the church, said that the third service will also provide an opportunity to explore using “more contemporary music.”
A third problem is general space in the parish hall which is used by a variety of community groups, including the Community Services Board for the senior nutrition site and Alcoholics Anonymous. These groups need storage space, which is in short supply. The kitchen also needs to be replaced Mr. Barton said.
He reported that parking is also a problem, with the parking for the Washington Baptist Church at the south end of Gay Street almost meeting parking from Trinity.
Mr. Barton said that Trinity Church has doubled in size during the past 20 years to about 140. It is reasonable to expect is to double again in the next 20 years, and so Mr. Cross is planning for the needs of a congregation of 280, he said.
When Mr. Cross made his preliminary report tp the vestry, he recommended the church plan for 200 cars on Sundays. Most of the alternatives for expanding on the site will take some of the current parking lot behind the church and parish hall.
Mr. Cross has been working on producing a series of site plans for the current church property and for a potential different location. He has not begun to actually design anything. Rather he is showing the vestry alternative potential solutions for expanding the parish hall and the church, either lengthening or widening the church and converting the existing parish hall entirely into classrooms with an addition for community space on the current lot or a replacement on the lot across Gay Street also owned by Trinity.
He said that some of these plans would leave little of the current church that several members of the congregation want to preserve. He said he has not done any real design work yet, because the decision on what to do needs to be made independently of affection or dislike for any particular design.
Although the Town Council has begun preliminary discussion of a sewer system for the town, the planning process for the church does not depend on municipal sewage. However, this adds to the problems since the two drainfields, one on the Mid
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