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.