Possible Projects
Over the last year, your staff, elders, and trustees have spent time to determine what projects could meet these growth challenges; from revitalizing another church, opening a third campus, planting churches, and a series of medium and large current campus projects. Here are a few campus project highlights:
Potential Downtown Campus Projects:
- Renovate the existing second floor of the Downtown campus, to enlarge the current lobby, update worship overflow space, reconfigure offices and provide a medium size assembly space for student ministry. (Cost- approx. 5 million)
- Build a new worship center at the Downtown campus, add a new lobby and repurpose the existing worship space for student ministry. (Cost – Approx. 20 million)
Potential Cove Campus Projects:
- Add a second floor to the Cove campus for additional children and student ministry assembly
space (Cost – approx. 7 million). - Build a new worship center at the Cove campus, new church offices, a new lobby and
repurpose the existing worship center for children’s ministry. (Cost- Approx. 18 million)
The church leadership recognizes that both campuses will need new worship centers. The Cove campus offers 325 seats while Downtown campus has almost 400. An influential factor is that Cove Children’s ministry has been operating at over 100% capacity for years. Our parents have been patient and new families have been graceful, but this reality affects current and future ministry. The Downtown campus has large numbers in our preschool classes but has the use of additional rooms and can accommodate future growth in children’s ministry.
Through hours of study and prayer, your leadership proposes a first next step of building a new worship center at the Cove campus that will also provide additional space for children’s ministry with a Downtown campus project after.
Our trustees have always worked to borrow only what is needed and retire debt quickly and believe that Rivertree could borrow 9-10 million dollars without impacting other ministry resources. While we aren’t starting the initiative yet, we are considering a campaign to raise $8-10M above our regular giving to fund the next phase.