With growth comes unexpected challenges. New City leadership has been looking at the Capitol Theater's seating for a few weeks - trying to figure out how many we can seat, how we can make the upper balcony seats more usable, do we need to add video monitors... And it seems at our current rate of growth we could stretch one service gathering until Fall of 2010. We would need to add video monitors upstairs for the upper rows, add a 2nd coffee gathering area in the unused upstairs dining - but it would work.Then came word from our nursery folks...
The Green Room - used for our birth through 2s is becoming unsafe for our infants. The toddlers are a little too mobile for the infants and the growing numbers of both groups is making it difficult to give good attention to both groups in the same room.
Then came a request from our 3 thru 6 year old area - our 5 and 6 year olds need to be split from our 3 and 4 year olds...
OK - so we need to split the nursery for safety reasons - a priority. We need to split our 3-6ers so that the older kids can be better taught - lower priority.
Problem:
The theater only offers the Green Room - in use, and 2 open dining areas (too loud for toddlers and older).
Reality:
We will outgrow the theater quickly - not because of theater seating, but because we are reaching young, reproductive families!
Solution:
For now we will move infants to the upstairs dining area - purchase a few items, set up a new area and we will be OK - for now. BUT not for long. This is only a temporary solution to a growing (and great) problem.
