Our Preschool has a long waiting list and our Children’s Ministry is quickly outgrowing its space. The Children’s Ministry is operating in the oldest part of our campus and is the furthest point from the worship areas, which work against our desire to offer warm hospitality to visitors. The new building will house both the Preschool and our Children’s Ministry and allow for growth to better serve families with small children, which is one of the fastest growing demographic segments in our area.

• The new building will allow Children’s Ministry to grow from three classrooms to up to six larger classrooms for ages Kindergarten through Fifth Grade – more than doubling our Sunday School capacity. The worship space will comfortably hold 115 kids, which is more than twice the current attendance numbers.

   

  The new Preschool area will allow for up to 32 more children on alternating schedules, which is up to a 20% increase.

   

  CADES will be able to double and possibly triple their current census.

The space used by the Preschool and Children’s Ministry nursery will be renovated to accommodate a significant expansion of our CADES (Concord Adult Day Enrichment Services) that provides ministry to persons dealing with issues related to dementia. CADES is currently licensed to serve 19 persons, though the CADES Executive Team feels that 15 is the maximum number to most effectively serve. It is estimated that the expansion will allow CADES to effectively serve 35-40 participants each day.

Thanks to a successful Phase 1 Faith for Generations Building Campaign, we anticipate will have raise $3M by June of 2025. Our Phase 2 Building Campaign (July 2025-June 2028) seeks to raise another $3M. 

The 2024 cost estimate for the new building indicated a projected range of $7,373,630 to $8,848,356. We are currently working with The Christman Company and Brewer Ingram Fuller Architects, Inc. to finalize the cost estimate while taking into account new pricing along with potential cost savings initiatives. According to our current schedule the Guaranteed Maximum Price for Construction of the new building will be finalized the Fall of 2025. The latest cost estimate for the CADES renovation completed in 2024 indicates a projected range of $647,414 to $776,897.

Conventional wisdom indicates that a church should keep debt under 2 times the annual operating budget, which for our church would be $5 million. However, we would prefer to keep our debt at $4 million or less.

No, we currently do not have any debt. The Worship Center along with the Student Ministries area was paid off in 2021.

We will begin construction when we have 40% of the total project cost on hand. Our current schedule indicates that The Christman Company will mobilize to our site and construction will begin the Fall of 2025.