The new building is designed to better accommodate Lock Heath Free Church’s activities and serve their wider community.
They have been planning a site move for eight and a half years. Having purchased the land, construction finally started this week.
The new space will have an auditorium which seats 500, a sports hall, a café, large foyer and staff offices. There will also be a separate 180-seat auditorium, several multi-use rooms, a pre-school area and a youth suite.
The project is being funded through personal gifts from the church family, the sale of a church property, fund raising activities, applying for grants and a large mortgage also paid for by the church congregation.
The church’s August newsletter updated the congregation, saying: “After eight years of prayer, planning, giving, fund raising, legal work, meetings, emails, telephone conversations, being overwhelmed, miracles, prophetic words, simply persevering, questions, more meetings and prayer … it has actually started.”
Lock Heath Free Church is also doing a ‘small group challenge’ in which Bible study groups compete to see which one can raise the most money.
They ask for prayer for the team building the church and “that our conversations, hope and focus remain firmly fixed on Jesus”.
Construction is expected to finish around November 2019.
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