New Property For Grace Community Church

As we announced Sunday, Grace Community Church has purchased 58 acres of land on Dunlop Lane, just a couple miles from our current meeting location and down the road from our community’s new hospital. We are excited about the future. To answer some of the questions we did not have time to share Sunday, I wanted to share some details about this process.

Grace was only six months old when a member in our church heard about an incredible deal on 79 acres of land one day and called me on the phone immediately. (Interestingly, a member of another church in town called him about the land.) Within a few short days, after meeting and praying with numerous leaders in our church, we had purchased the property. That seemed at the time to be a wise investment. I still completely agree that it was.

In the next couple years several things happened that helped shape our plans for a future building location.

• The growth focus of our community shifted to another side of town.
• Our church outgrew the rented facility where we launched.
• Renting a school became an option. It had previously not been.
• We moved to the center of the largest growth area of our community.
• We began to reach people from a broader area of our county than previously targeted.
• We sold 20 unbuildable acres of our 79 acres.
• We paid off our existing property.

With those dynamics in place, the leadership of the church began to pray about what God would have us do in regards to property. Sensing we needed to explore other options near our current meeting location, we asked a small team of people in our church to search for available properties. When we discovered land available to us at an incredible price, considering the cost of land in the high-growth area, we decided it was too good of an opportunity to pass up and we initiated the purchase of a new 58-acre track of land. We also entertained offers on the remainder of our existing property and it appears we will sell it within a matter of weeks.

With this new purchase, several things need to be understood:

• The vision of the church has never changed. We want to produce “growing followers of Jesus Christ.”
• The passion for our community is even greater than when we started.
• The future is brighter than we could have imagined.
• We love and are investing in our community even more than ever before.
• Our focus remains on blessing the community as much as our church with our property and any building we ever build.

It is exciting to watch what God has planned for us. We continue to seek His will, knowing that we can only act upon what we know today. His plans for us continue to be bigger than we might have dreamed.

Has Grace Community Church made a difference in your life?

Do you marvel at the way God does things at times? Have you watched His plans be bigger than yours?

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