News and Events

Providing a dedicated space for our younger children’s ministry.

We will be adding four classrooms, each with their own sink, clustered around a large group room. (Picture a smaller version of the Great Room.) There will be one main entry from the south Commons which will offer more security. The large group room will have two bathrooms. (No more taking groups of preschoolers down the hall to the main bathrooms during the service!)

Older children will move back into the Great Room classrooms.

Once the younger children are settled into the Cove, the new addition, the older kids will be able to use the Great Room classrooms that were originally intended for them. This will keep them together and allow for more large group activities on Sunday mornings. It will also mean these rooms will have greater flexibility in use throughout the week.

Improving our ministry staff work spaces

Currently, staff offices are scattered along the east side of our hallway, with 4-5 staff people sharing each room. This arrangement makes it difficult to have private conversations or focus on individual work. In the new addition, staff will be closer together but have private work spaces.

Optimizing many other spaces to be used more effectively in church-wide ministry

By moving the younger children and offices into the new addition, and older kids into the Great Room area, we will free up space for other ministry.

On Sunday mornings one of these smaller rooms will be used for nursing moms or moms with young kids, another will be reserved for kids who need a quiet room in order to participate in the kids ministry. The hall classroom will be used as a break out room for youth classes, which will still leave three other classrooms for adult ministry classes or small group use.

The Family Room will continue to be used for our High School class at 9:00 and for Nueva Vida, the Hispanic congregation at 10:30. All of these spaces will be used in multiple ways throughout the rest of the week.

The Surge Forward Campaign

Pledged Amount $1,026,407

Giving to-date $843,787

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East Addition Build-Out

The inside is getting a fresh look with new paint and carpet, and the outside build-out is going to be a new ministry center for offices and ministry area for younger kids.

A few things to note:

The East side lot is no longer accessible, so please use the South side parking lot if you need to come to the church office during the week. The old office door is no longer accessible.
The East side lot in no longer available to drive through from one side of the church to the other. Please access the North or South lots through the appropriate entrance/exit. If you need to switch lots for some reason, you’ll need to use Main St.
Please keep yourself and any kids from walking into the construction zone. There will be big holes and lots of materials and equipment back there for the next several months — much of it is potentially dangerous.
Finally, let’s remember to PRAY!!! Pray that God will use this new space to help reach those in our community!