NEXT @ FBCG
Our vision is to become a community of faith that shines like a beacon of hope to our region, doing whatever it takes to share God’s transforming love with the world.
This statement of vision, based on the words of Jesus (“You are the light of the world”- Matt. 5) and crafted by FBCG leadership over a decade ago, has served as both foundation and fuel for our passion as a church.
We believe Jesus envisioned a movement of his followers that would be passionate about loving God, loving each other and serving the world. Over the years we have distilled this vision into “Believing, Belonging, and Becoming.”
We have sought together to cultivate a “whatever it takes” attitude with regard to fulfilling Jesus’ vision for his church.
FBCG Facility Development
We often say that FBCG is "one church with two campuses" in describing our current ministry situation. However, to understand the following proposals for facility development, it might be more helpful to think of FBCG as having one campus with two facilities that are 1,000 yards apart! Our leadership is proposing a three tiered plan to develop the total physical plant of FBCG.
1. East Campus revitalization:
Due to the upcoming renovation of the east campus sanctuary - that we believe will enable us to enhance even further our historic commitment to traditional worship- we will be moving all FBCG worship services temporarily to the WEST CAMPUS beginning May 18 (the week after Mother’s Day). While we are asking our east campus worshipers for a “whatever it takes” attitude in making the move – we are also asking our west worshipers to have the same attitude of flexibility and understanding – because the result will be that we will ALL experience some wonderful benefits.
• We will worship together on one campus for the first time in four years.
• While we do share fellowship together in all kinds of mid-week ministries – it will be special to share that same fellowship in the context of worship.
• We will strengthen our sense of unity and vision as a church at a critical time when we are considering the next step in developing our west campus.
• We will also catch a glimpse of what FBCG will be like when, with God’s gracious help, we finish the next phase of facility development and are able to move our worship services to the west campus!
This step will involved the renovation the chapel area (completed) as well as the sanctuary. We will be replacing carpets, recovering pews, brightening the room and adding the capacity for visual media.
2. West Campus Phase 2 construction
The process of planning Phase 2 of the west campus has already begun. Our goal is to present a plan to the congregation in August of 2008 that will include the addition of a worship center, C.E. and other necessary ancillary space to the west campus by about 2011. At that time our hope is to move all FBCG weekend worship services to the west campus. We will retain the east campus and re-develop it for ministry purposes.
3. East Campus re-development:
We believe that the east campus will continue to be a valuable ministry asset even after the west campus is fully developed. In particular, we envision renovating the west end of the building (the Family Life Center) into a state-of-the-art venue for about 250 people while the sanctuary would be used as a chapel for weddings, funerals and other smaller venues. We would like to complete this project simultaneously with West campus construction.
Contact: Church Office, 630.232.7068
