By Jeanne Millsap For The Herald-News June 20, 2012 10:36AM

Updated: June 20, 2012 4:08PM

CHANNAHON Temperaments in the Channahon Village Board room Monday evening were as hot as the weather outside as representatives from an area church once again asked trustees for more time to complete required construction.

The First Baptist Church of Channahon has built a new church and school on the villages northeast side, just north of Route 6, but the deadline for completing parking lot and landscaping work came and went on June 15 without the work being done.

You gave us a commitment you would have that in, Trustee Jerry Papesh said.

Pastor Randy Blan told trustees he did not agree to have the work completed by the deadline in the first place when the board granted the church a partial occupancy permit last November provided the remaining work would be completed by June 15.

I didnt have a choice, Blan said regarding the deadline. I feel like that commitment was forced on us.

This was not the first time church members have come before the board asking for more time or special allowances. Last August, the village board granted a temporary 90-day occupancy permit for the churchs school, Families of Faith Christian Academy, to allow the church time to complete its parking lot, lights, parking islands and landscaping.

The board gave the allowance so the church would be able to open the school at the beginning of the school year.

According to village staff, however, the required work was not completed within 90 days. Trustees then unanimously approved removing the 90-day limit and granting a partial occupancy permit provided the work was completed by June 15.

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19-06-2012 09:06 WE ARE COMING TO YOU TO SEEK FINANCIAL HELP FOR OUR CHURCH BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND PAYMENT FOR THE LOT...WE ARE NEEDING 1.5M AS ESTIMATED AMOUNT FOR THE CHURCH CONSTRUCTION AND 1M FOR THE LOT PAYMENT. HOPE YOU COULD BE A PART OF IT. GOD BLESS AND MORE POWER.

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19-06-2012 13:51 The El-Shaddai community church, health clinic, primary school and feeding centre were all destroyed by the January 2010 earthquake. Supporting the community, EMAS is helping Haiti build, better than before, with assistance from Engineering Ministries International (eMi). In March 2011, construction began on the El?Shaddai Ministry Centre, in Bon Repos (Port-au-Prince), which is to include a church/hurricane shelter, primary school, feeding centre and healthcare clinic. EMAS supports the primary school and the feeding programme which provides a meal three times a week for the children. EMAS also sends a medical team annually which sees many patients and conducts training to empower local healthcare providers. They leave behind medical supplies and toys for the children. They also organised a sports programme for the young people of the El-Shaddai church.

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19-06-2012 14:16 Video Narrative Recounting the Campaign for St. Bridget School, the 2009 Effort to Raise Funds Necessary for this Refurbishment and Enhancement Project.

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19-06-2012 07:48 This was one of the two churches we visited during our day of sightseeing in Arequipa. It is a very old church, originally constructed as a Jesuit church. Construction began in 1590 and was completed in 1698. It's not a very big church, but very beautifully decorated. It is constructed from sillar, the white volcanic rock quarried from the side of the volcanic mountain Misti. More information:

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

SL Green Realty Corp. (SLG) announced today that the City of New York has renewed its lease covering 372,520 square feet for offices of the law division at 100 Church Street, the 21-story, 1.05 million square foot building located in downtown Manhattan. The 20-year lease renewal commences November, 2013 covering floors 2-6, 20 and a portion of the building's concourse level. The Citys lease at 100 Church Street was scheduled to expire in October, 2013.

The Company also announced that is has refinanced the property with a new $230 million, 10-year loan bearing interest at a rate of 4.675%. Proceeds from the financing, which was provided by Wells Fargo Bank, will be used for general corporate purposes.

We are delighted to have the City of New York as our anchor tenant. The Citys decision to extend its commitment is testament to the quality of our recently completed redevelopment of 100 Church Street, said Steven Durels, Executive Vice President and Director of Leasing and Real Property for SL Green. Mr. Durels continued, This early renewal is consistent with our firms proactive management of future lease expirations which has led to consistently high portfolio occupancy."

SL Green acquired the building in 2010 after it had been 56% vacant for over 5 years. A comprehensive redevelopment of the property, which was completed in 2011, included a new lobby, windows, infrastructure upgrades, new roofs and retail repositioning. Building occupancy is now 82% and major tenants, in addition to the City of New York, include HealthFirst, Niche Media, Interactive Data Corp, Centerline Capital Group and the State of New York.

CBREs Michael Geoghegan and John Morrill represented the City of New York in the transaction.

Caroline Silk, Esq. represented the City of New York in-house, while Peter Strauss, Esq. and Christopher Smith, Esq. of Shearman & Sterling acted on behalf of SL Green.

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SL Green Realty Corp., New York City's largest office landlord, is the only fully integrated real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is focused primarily on acquiring, managing and maximizing value of Manhattan commercial properties. As of March 31, 2012, SL Green owned interests in 70 Manhattan properties totaling more than 39.0 million square feet. This included ownership interests in 27.3 million square feet of commercial properties and debt and preferred equity investments secured by 11.7 million square feet of properties. In addition to its Manhattan investments, SL Green holds ownership interests in 32 suburban assets totaling 6.9 million square feet in Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, Westchester County, Connecticut and New Jersey, along with four development properties in the suburbs encompassing approximately 0.5 million square feet.

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HENAGAR Carpenters for Christ are helping make a new church building a reality for the congregation of Friendship Baptist Church.

Loretta Shankles, a 50-year member of the congregation, said the church created a building fund about 10 years ago, and things fell into place earlier than expected when Carpenters for Christ volunteered to help build the church.

We werent expecting it to happen this summer, Shankles said. A group of Carpenters for Christ from Piedmont framed and blocked in the church. There were almost 100 of them that conducted this mission. They did a tremendous amount of work. Some of the Carpenters for Christ said they want to come back when we get started on the sheetrock.

Shankles said the existing church building near Henagar was built in the 1930s and is supported by rock pillars. She said over time the pillars had become unstable and some of the Sunday School rooms had started to sag and pull away from the building.

The new building is being built just below the existing church. The church tore down its existing fellowship hall to build a larger church building. Shankles said the new building will be a little large for about 60 Sunday school children and a weekly service count of about 80-100 people.

Were not a big church, she said. The new one is big. Were building for the future. We know God can fill it up.

Shankles said she visited the church on Wednesday morning and windows were being put into the building. However she said there was still a lot left to do. She said electrical and plumbing had to be installed and next the church would be bricked. She said a nice addition to the church is a basement with rebar-reinforced concrete that could provide shelter from severe weather something the church escaped last April.

We were fortunate that we didnt have any damage from the tornadoes, Shankles said. I think some shingles may have been blow off, but that was it. God was good to us, and we werent damaged by the storm.

Shankles said she wasnt sure when the congregation would hold its first service in the new church which has been pastored by Darrell Sears since 1994.

We havent heard an exact date, she said. We still have a lot of work to do before we can get into it. Were hoping for the first of the year, but we dont know for sure.

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