Church ready to roll on work to build its second campus

Pastor John Bradosky (left) and Assistant Pastor Todd Kornahrens say earth-moving work is about to begin for Epiphany Lutheran's south campus at Sheehan and Social Row roads in Washington Twp. The focus of the complex, expected to open in 2010, will be sports and recreation.

Staff photo by Jeremy P. Kelley Pastor John Bradosky (left) and Assistant Pastor Todd Kornahrens say earth-moving work is about to begin for Epiphany Lutheran's south campus at Sheehan and Social Row roads in Washington Twp. The focus of the complex, expected to open in 2010, will be sports and recreation.

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By Jeremy P. Kelley, Staff Writer 5:22 PM Wednesday, October 21, 2009

WASHINGTON TWP., Montgomery County — Sixteen acres of open field at the southwest corner of Sheehan and Social Row roads are beginning their transformation into athletic fields and a multipurpose building this month, as Epiphany Lutheran Church begins work on its second campus.

Washington Twp. trustees have given the project second-stage zoning approval, and John Bradosky, the church’s senior pastor, said site work was expected to begin this week. He said before winter hits, crews hope to level the field areas, run lines for water and other utilities, set the pad for a multipurpose building, and get some grass growing to prevent runoff problems.

The first phase of the facility will feature four sand volleyball courts, a baseball/softball diamond, four fields that could be used for soccer, lacrosse or flag football, plus an 8,500 square-foot multipurpose building. The church hopes to have the fields and building ready in August 2010, if not earlier.

“The whole site is about reaching out to people with a sports and recreation ministry,” Bradosky said. “We’ve done demographic studies of this area, and it’s at the top of the list when people talk about what they would be attracted to in terms of programming.”

While Epiphany’s Far Hills campus will stay put, its 125-member Springboro congregation will move three miles east to the multipurpose building on Social Row Road next year.

On the same site in roughly five years, the church plans to build a much larger building that could house two full gymnasiums, musical performances, a preschool and a growing south congregation.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2278 or jkelley@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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