Every Few Years
In 2010, Rivertree moved from a school cafeteria and opened the doors of the Cove campus, and every few years the church has been faced with the need to expand. Growth is a great problem and Rivertree has had capacity issues from the very beginning. In 2013, Rivertree built additional children’s ministry space dedicated to preschool on Sunday mornings and Treeschool through the week. In 2018, Rivertree opened “Rivertree South” in Goldsmith Schiffman Elementary and expanded Sunday morning ministries. In 2020, all efforts turned towards a four million dollar renovation and launch of the Downtown campus on the legacy and faithfulness of Southside Baptist Church. Now in 2024, we prayerfully consider how to increase ministry capacity again.
- Thousands of new people move to Huntsville every year.
- We have two campuses providentially located to reach people with the gospel.
- We are debt free with 2 million dollars saved and set aside to build.
- We have the recurring “great problem” of capacity issues at both campuses.
- It is not a question of which project we must pursue, but which is the best next step.