From the Ground Up: Charity Baptist Church

Address: 2603 S. Westwood, near the intersection of Kansas Expressway and

Sunset Avenue.

Owner/developer: Charity Baptist Church

General contractor: The church is serving as its own general contractor

Architect: Jerry Cooper, Godwin & Associates

Size: 3,800 square feet

Estimated construction cost: $310,000, including the land

Estimated completion date: late July or first of August

Description of the project: This new structure will house Charity Baptist Church, a southern Baptist church with an enrollment of about 55 people. The church's members have been meeting in rented space at another church for more than five years, but this is the congregation's first facility of its own. The new church will feature split-face block on the exterior. The building will include education rooms, an auditorium, a drive-under canopy and a steeple.