Kerrville, TX – The Coming King Foundation, a non-profit 501c3 arts organization, has resumed construction on the 23 acre The Coming King Sculpture Prayer Garden on IH-10, 60 miles northwest of San Antonio. The spiritual garden park is located on private land at the main entrance of Kerrville, TX. Construction resumed this week after a three year delay due to opposition of atheists and others opposed to the 77’7 symbolic open cross sculpture called “The Empty Cross”.
A local contractor Edmund Jenschke, Inc, was awarded the job. Company President, Joe Ed Jenschke estimated this phase of construction is expected to take about three months. Jenschke said of the project: “The cross is the best thing to happen to Kerrville in a long time!”
Once the main entrance is finished, the Christian sculpture park will be opened to the public at no charge, though the entire Garden can’t be completed until more funds are donated. This phase of the construction was made possible by a $125,000 Challenge Grant awarded by the Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation of Kerrville in 2011, and major gifts from John and Barbara Sullivan, Lyle and Patsy Jordan, Max and Sherry Greiner, and Trish Wyatt. Since 2005, the Christian non-denominational park has been built on faith in God, without debt, public tax money or professional fundraisers. To date, over $2,000,000 has been donated and spent on the project.
More than a dozen monumental sculptures, worth $3,000,000, have been given by three different internationally collected Christian sculptors, Beverly Paddleford of Lander, WY, David Broussard of Dallas, TX and Max Greiner, Jr. of Kerrville, TX.
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Edmund Jenschke Inc. was awarded the contract to build the front entrance of the 23 acre Sculpture Prayer Garden on 1/27/12. (Pictured left to right, bottom row: Rev. Fern Lancaster, Joe Ed Jenschke, Sharan Barnett, Max Greiner, Jr. Top row: John Lenard, Johnny Sharp, Jim McKnight, James Barnett.) |
