Southeast Christian Church to Have 1 Million Square Feet Under Roof
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- Posted on: Wed, December 27, 2006
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“Mind-boggling” is how Southeast Christian Church senior minister Dave Stone describes the amount of real estate under roof on the megachurch’s 110-acre campus, located near the Interstate 64-Blankenbaker Parkway interchange.
When a nearly $11 million, 75,000-square-foot youth ministry and services building is completed in 2008, Southeast will have more than 1 million square feet of building space—about the same amount as the Kentucky Exposition Center.
A spring groundbreaking is planned for the new center.
It will join Southeast Christian’s 656,000-square-foot main facility, which houses its sanctuary, chapel, elementary and preschool-age religious education programs, and libraries, and the church’s existing 120,000-square-foot youth and activities building.
A newly constructed, $20 million, 150,000-square-foot administration and office building called the Ministry Resource Center also is located on Southeast’s campus. The four-story building was completed in October and now houses about 80 percent of the church’s 300 employees, Stone said.
The Ministry Resource Center and the planned youth facility are products of Southeast’s latest and largest-ever capital campaign, called “Making Room for More.”
The $30 million fund drive was announced in 2002 and has surpassed its goal, drawing $35 million in pledges.
Of that amount, 96 percent of the money has been collected, according to Stone.
“People have been very generous with this project,” he said. “I think that there’s a high level of trust. They know that we’re going to try to make wise decisions and be good stewards” of their money.
In addition to capital construction, the Making Room for More campaign earmarked $3.6 million to assist smaller area churches that hold the same beliefs as Southeast, Stone said.
SOURCE: BizJournals.com
TAGS: Bob Russell, Dave Stone, Building Programs, Mega-churches
How big can a megachurch be? Well, one of the hugest is Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, KY. At the completion of their new youth center, the church will have over one million square feet under roof! (That’s BIG!)…
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Leonard on Wed, December 27, 2006
Wow! That is huge. Cool that they are using some of the money to help other churches. I love that idea.
DANiELLE on Sat, December 30, 2006
THAT’S MY CHURCH AND i LOVE iT TO DEATH. DAVE STONE AND KYLE iDLEMAN ARE 2 OF THE TOP BEST PREACHERS AROUND. SOUTHEAST HAS iMPACTED MY LiFE iN MORE WAYS THAN ONE AND i LOVE SPENDiNG 1-2 TiMES A WEEK THERE. CHECK OUT THE MOViES “THE PERFECT STRANGER” AND THE SEQUEL COMiNG OUT iN MAY/JUNE “ANOTHER PERFECT STRANGER”. THEY FiLMED PART OF THE 2ND MOViE AT THE CAFE iNSiDE SOUTHEAST CHRiSTiAN…
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