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Making Room

God is moving at Gracelife. We're renovating our building, rebuilding the Welcome Team, and bringing back student ministry — so there's room for whoever walks in next.

See the plan
Making Room
Our goal
$37,000
To make room for more people to experience Jesus.
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4 Sundays
August 30 through September 20.
Ways we're making room
3
Physical, relational, and generational.

Why now?

God is moving. We're making room.

Sunday attendance has grown every year since we moved into this building — up 7.3% last year and another 7.8% this year. That's a great problem to have. But our facility has some very real bottlenecks: parking, restrooms, and space. People want to come. We need to be ready for them.

Don't merely ask people to come. Prepare for them to come.

2024
117
avg. attendance
2025
126
+7.3% year over year
2026
136
+7.8% year over year

Enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; lengthen your cords and strengthen your pegs.

Isaiah 54:2

The first seven minutes

The building preaches before the pastor does.

A first-time guest decides how a place feels in about seven minutes. Where do I park? Which door? Is there a line for the bathroom? Where do my kids go? Did anybody notice me? Here's what we've heard from folks who visited once and didn't come back:

  • I came for a few weeks, but nobody talked to me.

  • I didn't know where to park or where to go.

  • Nobody called me back.

  • It just felt like there wasn't room for me.

The result? One-and-done. They come once and don't come back. Not because of the sermon, but because of the parking lot, the bathroom line, and the cramped nursery. That's fixable. So let's fix it.

The plan

Three ways we're making room.

This isn't just a building project. Making room is physical, relational, and generational — and your gift fuels all three.

Physical
We're renovating our building.
New lighting, two major restrooms, new flooring, and walls opened up for more space — so everywhere a guest goes says "we were expecting you."
Relational
We're adding back the Welcome Team.
Friendly faces in the parking lot, at the door, and in the lobby — so nobody has to guess where to park, which door to use, or whether anyone noticed them.
Generational
We're bringing back high school and college ministry.
Most people who follow Jesus decide to before they turn 18. These are the best years to know Him, and we want students to have a place to do it — with truth, friends, purpose, and impact.

Where the money goes

$37,000. Everywhere a guest goes.

Every dollar given to the Making Room Fund goes straight into the renovation. Here's the punch list.

  • New lighting throughout the building
  • Two major restrooms added
  • New flooring and baseboards
  • Walls opened up for more gathering space
  • Ceiling vents in every room

How it works

Four Sundays. One fund.

We'll take up the Making Room offering over four Sundays this fall, with updates in The Dispatch and on Sunday mornings. Give any week, or all of them.

  1. Sunday

    Aug 30

    Campaign kickoff.

  2. Sunday

    Sept 6

    Update and offering.

  3. Sunday

    Sept 13

    Update and offering.

  4. Sunday

    Sept 20

    Final day to give.

He made room for us.

Now let's make room for them.

Give to the Making Room Fund any time before Sunday, September 20. Just choose “Making Room” as the fund when you give.

Questions about giving? Email office@gracelifebeach.com.