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Amplify: What About Our Building?

Amplify is our vision to double our church's weekend capacity this fall.  So on October 19 we will be expanding our Sunday morning service into the auditorium at Southfield Lathrup High School.

Here is one of the first questions this strategy prompted.  What will we do with our building?

Here's the short answer: At this point we are planning to keep it.

Six months after launching Church of the King, God provided for us in a big way.  We started meeting in Thompson Middle School the Sunday after 9.11 (2001).  Later that year, as a church of about fifty people, God provided us with a building...for free.  We called it The Miracle on 12 Mile Rd.  Now, since Southfield Lathrup is located one mile west on 12 Mile Rd, we are asking God to write a new chapter in our 12 Mile Rd story.

Since God used the building to stabilize us as a brand new church plant, our dream has been to continue to invest the building into church planting.

Currently, two church plants use our building during the week for offices, small groups, services, prayer meetings and leadership meetings.  We are also praying about the possibility of using the building in a few years to either plant a church or a second campus.

In addition, we will continue to use the building during the week as a base of operations (offices, Life groups, prayer meetings, team meetings, etc.)  The building will make our transition into the high school much less complicated then a true portable church.

Bottom Line: Amplify is a dream to increase the fruit from the original Miracle on 12 Mile Rd.

The Big Announcement

Yesterday was a big day for our church as I shared some exciting news about expanding our ministry this fall. 

On Friday night hundreds of our neighbors attended the Cruisefest outreach.  I realized as I met so many of them that even if they all decided to visit our church this fall they couldn't.  We don't have room for them to sit or to park.  This is a great problem to have, and one that we have prayed for.

In a little less than a month we will celebrate our seventh anniversary.  Seven years is a significant milestone for any church plant, and one that I think God is calling us to commemorate by launching out again.  For quite some time our leadership teams have been patiently praying, dreaming, and investigating options for growth.  After hours of prayer and conversation, we feel confident that God is leading us to take a step of faith.

So yesterday in our service I delivered the news!  On Sunday, October 19, we will be amplifying our voice in Metro Detroit by expanding our weekend service into the auditorium at Southfield Lathrup High School!

Southfield Lathrup is located on 12 Mile Rd., just over a mile west of our current building.  It is also located in the middle of one of the most diverse neighborhoods in Southfield.  The auditorium will give us the capacity to double the size of our church, as well as plenty of space to expand our ministry to kids.

If you're a part of our church and you missed the announcement yesterday, you will be receiving a letter this week.  You can read it here.  You can also listen to the message here.  This week I will also be posting on this blog answers to some of the most common questions that I have heard so far.

The vision of Church of the King has been clear since the day it was started.  We're on a mission to connect our city to Christ.  I can't wait to take one more step this fall in pursuit of that dream!