A strategic plan to accommodate and facilitate the spiritual and physical/numerical growth of LBC by implementing a series of short-term, mid-term, and long-term plans.
The relationship between a trellis and a vine is a helpful metaphor for how to grow a strong, healthy, thriving church. The vine represents the disciple-making work of preaching and teaching God’s Word in the power of God’s Spirit so people are converted to Christ and grow to maturity in Christ. The trellis represents the organizational structures and programs that support the vine and enable it to develop and flourish. In order for the vine to thrive the trellis needs to be modified and/or expanded from time to time.
LONG-TERM PLAN
Over the past year or so, God has been directing a lot of new people to our church. In light of the sacred responsibility He has entrusted to us to care for their souls, we have been praying and planning how to best minister to our growing congregation. In order to solve our present space issues and help us envision how to modify and expand our facilities to reach and teach more people in our community which is experiencing explosive growth, we hired Crosspointe Church Architects to analyze our needs and provide us with some creative options. We now have an updated Master Plan which fully utilizes the remainder of the property God provided us 22 years ago and completes the third and final phase of our original Master Plan. The main feature is a new 900 seat Worship Center solely dedicated to ministering the Word through music and preaching along with a secure, self-contained, consolidated Children’s Center where kids can hear the gospel and be trained up to love and live for Jesus.
This is an exciting but daunting project which will require God’s providential provision along with an enormous amount of faith and sacrifice on our part. From the beginning, we adopted the motto of the famous pioneer missionary to China, Hudson Taylor, who said: “God’s work done God’s way will never lack God’s supply!” Like Taylor, we have tested the promises of God in the past and He has proven Himself faithful and so we are confident He can be trusted for our future and will continue to glorify Himself at Lakeside Bible Church by doing above and beyond anything we could ask for or even imagine (Eph. 3:20-21).
That’s our long-term plan but we need to create a pathway of growth in order to get there. So we have come up with a short-term plan and a mid-term plan that will provide time and space for our church to extend its impact in our lives and in our community.
