History
In 1999, God gave a group of godly, like-minded men a vision to start a new church that would impact the entire northwest Montgomery County region with the life-changing truth of God’s Word. These men shared a passion to do God’s work God’s way as well as a conviction that the Bible is the final authority for what to believe and how to live. They stepped forward in faith trusting God to guide them and provide for them. He graciously provided Montgomery Elementary School as a place to meet and 150 people attended the first worship service of Lakeside Bible Church.
The enthusiasm during that first year was electric as everyone pitched in to make church happen every week. They set up the nursery in the hallway, used folded lunch tables to create Sunday School classes for the kids, the teenagers met in the foyer, and they utilized any quiet corner they could find for their adult Equipping Classes. Every Sunday after church people would pull their trucks and vans up to the front doors and they would load all the equipment, supplies, and resources and take them home and store them in their garages during the week. Somehow it would all show up again the next week. In time they were able to buy a trailer and slowly but surely things got more and more organized.
It didn’t take long, however, for them to realize that the school wasn’t going to work out as a long-term meeting place, so they began praying and looking for another place to meet. There were very few options to choose from, but they saw a large building under construction called Haven’s Landing. Several of them would regularly stop by and walk through the framed up building and pray that God would allow them to meet there when it was completed. When they approached the owner about renting space for their Sunday services, he agreed to let them meet there until they were able to build a facility of their own.
In the meantime, this young body, convinced that the church was not a building but a group of people who have committed their lives to follow Christ, learned to be creative and content in the use of rented facilities. However, God honored their commitment to build people rather than buildings much sooner than any of them expected. In just four short years, through much prayer and the joyful, generous, and sacrificial giving of His people, God graciously provided enough money to purchase 12 acres of prime land and to construct a beautiful multi-purpose facility that would allow them to maximize their impact for Christ in this community and around the world.
It is our prayer that God will continue to glorify Himself here at Lakeside Bible Church by doing above and beyond anything we could ask for or even imagine (Eph. 3:20-21).
