After much discussion and process, after learning that the sprinkler system alone for a new community dining hall would be 600,000 (which is too costly) we will completely renovate the existing dining hall (finish remaining septic repair, rip off and replace roof, put in new heating system etc) and build a dining hall 2000 sq ft for the monastics next to my house (since we are out of room in our monastic dining trapeza). Total cost will be 650k (about the price of just the sprinkler system in the previous plan). This is a general update to what’s happening now. The dining hall for monastics will be built first around June or so God willing and then renovations will take place for existing dining hall. Hopefully it won’t interrupt more than one or two Sunday coffee hours in June or July. Roof replace will take place asap. If you wish to help with the project for which we would be grateful you can do so at the link below or just send and mark in the memo of a check “new dining hall repair”. So far about 250k has been raised. Thank you for your support and prayers for this project!