(May 19, 2026) The Recovery and Reuse Committee is busy documenting the stained-glass that beautifies several parts of our campus. The Committee will determine what should be saved and what should be sold. The sheer volume of the collection makes saving and storing all of it infeasible, but some pieces are surely part of our heritage and should be maintained for our new worship space.
In the next few weeks, a stained-glass expert will come to Pasadena Community Church to measure and inspect our glass, including the Sanctuary entrance, the glass walls behind the choir loft, and the glass in the chapel and at the chapel entrance.
All of those pieces have unique stories.
The committee’s inspection revealed that much of the glass is behind outdoor glass, meaning the stained glass can be removed even while the exterior glass remains.
While some of the glass contains scriptural messaging, some, like the glass behind the choir loft, is more in the style of art deco. It is estimated that just the glass
in the wall in the photo below weighs in excess of a thousand pounds. It will be no easy task to remove these pieces undamaged.
Within the next month or so, we will be back to tell you what we learn about our stained-glass collection and we will hear the committee’s recommendations about what to remove, store and keep for reuse. Keep in mind that whatever PCC plans to keep and reuse in a new worship space will have to be carefully removed, packed, and stored for potentially a few years.
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