Watch the Presentation from February 21, 2021:
Why are we updating our Hendersonville Campus?
Our Hendersonville Campus is our largest physical campus, and has seen many changes and additions take place over the past 40 years. As we prepare for what’s next in our community, we believe that investing in a few strategic upgrades to our largest physical asset will prepare us for decades of new ministry opportunities.
What changes will take place in Hendersonville?
The first phase of planned updates to our Hendersonville Campus focuses on several important areas:
Navigation - If you’ve invited a friend to join you at the Hendersonville Campus recently, you know how hard it is to find your way around. We want to better define entry points and create “portals” around the campus to make on-foot navigation easier.
Traffic Flow Inside the Building - Our lobby areas get extremely crowded before and after services. We hope to reduce this by moving our cafes and redirecting traffic for common behaviors like check-in for LH Kids on a Sunday morning.
A Better “Next Steps” Experience - If you make a decision during a service at Hendersonville right now, you’re directed to an oddly located room behind curtains at the front of the worship center. We want to relocate this counseling area to somewhere that’s more centralized and easy to access both during and between services.
A More Effective “Cafe” - Our current cafes are low-capacity and located in two crowded locations. We’re planning to consolidate these into one larger high-capacity cafe that will also be open to the community throughout the week.
Utilizing Our Largest Space - Our Hendersonville Campus is blessed with a beautiful outdoor landscape that remains mostly unused during the week. A major objective of this project is to transform the space between the main building cluster and the student building into a sprawling outdoor environment full of covered meeting spaces and gathering opportunities for outdoor activities.
Our hope is that these updates will work together to transform our largest campus from a space where the church gathers twice a week, to one where the whole community can gather every day.
When will work begin on these improvements?
We expect to begin work on these improvements early this summer.
When will work conclude on these improvements?
Although construction projects can be hard to estimate (especially large-scale construction like this project), our architects are expecting for the updates to be complete mid-way through 2022.
How are we paying for this project?
Because of our church’s faithfulness to give financially, we’re excited to approach this project in a different way than we have with other large-scale building projects in the past. Because of the gifts given to the Kingdom Come Initiative in 2019-2020, and the weekly generosity of our members, we’re expecting to complete this project with cash on-hand and from our 2021-2022 operating budgets. We do not expect to take on long-form debt or enter into a new capital campaign for this project. Thank you so much for your faithfulness to give!
Who can I contact if I have questions?
If you have questions about this project, you can email our Executive Pastor, Collin Wood.
How will the campus look after these changes?
Below are early renderings from our architectural partner that are representative of the kind of changes you can expect from this community-focused project.
