Thank you for taking the time to consider helping with our building campaign. Please take a moment to watch the video below to learn about our plans to reach out to our neighbors in Commerce City. Scroll through the page below to learn more details about our building program. Please consider clicking the link below and donating to our building campaign.
The Basics
The price of the new church is expected to be right around $3.3M. To date, Living Hope members have contributed more than $150,000 to build a new church. Our capital campaign has two fundraising goals:
1) Raise an additional $180,000 for the down payment on the new building
2) Raise an addition $250,000 over the next 3 years to help offset the debt payments as our church grows
Living Hope is supported in many ways by the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). One of those ways is through access to funding to build our new church. If we raise enough for a 10% down payment on the property ($330,000), the WELS Church Extension Fund will provide Living Hope with a grant of $590,000. That means that we will start the project with $920,000 of the building already paid off.
Keep an eye on the thermometers at the bottom of this page to see how our capital campaign is progressing. And, please consider making a donation to help us!
Five years ago, Living Hope and Rocky Mountain Lutheran High School purchased 23-acres of land along 104th Avenue in Commerce City. We moved right into the middle of the booming Reunion neighborhood. Moving to Commerce City from Brighton in 2015 was a difficult decision. But, we knew this was an excellent opportunity to reach into a growing community with few established churches. Since 2015, thousands of families have moved into the Reunion neighborhoods around us. Over the next 10 years, builders have plans for 30,000 more homes.
Within two miles of our location, there is only one other church that has their own facility. If you extend that radius out a few more miles, that number only grows to four.
Our location sits along the heavily traveled 104th Ave. Any one living to the east of us will drive by our location to get to the nearest grocery store.
Our location is full of opportunity to share the Good News. The words of Jesus are easily applied to our location, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Living Hope has always been a mission church and there is no better place to do mission work than right here. This is an area that needs workers to go and tell the message of redemption and reunite sinners with their Savior. Living Hope is willing to do that work. Prayerfully consider donating to our building campaign to help us!
We are building an 8,400 sq. ft. building that embodies the idea of reunion. In the graphic below, you can find a floor plan for the new building. As you walk through the main doors, you find yourself in a wide open hallway with a large living room off to your left and a kitchen and coffee bar to the right. This embodies what we are trying to do. We want to build a place for reunion. A place where first-time visitors and long-time members all feel welcome and can reunite with each other and with Jesus each week.
The worship area seats 200 and provides ways to accommodate larger crowds for special events or a center isle for weddings. We have ample classroom space for Sunday School and the area can be sealed off from the rest of the church to keep all our children safe. Plus, teens have their own dedicated space.
The entire building sits on the high point in our land and maximizes the views of the Rocky Mountains from the Living Room.
Out the side doors by the classroom, a fenced in playground will give kids and families a place to play and bond.
Living hope and Rocky Mountain Lutheran high school
In 2009, Living Hope and Rocky Mountain Lutheran High School were both served by Pastor Chad Walta. Since that time, our two ministries have been intertwined. In 2015, we jointly purchased 23-acres of land in the Reunion neighborhood of Commerce City. Living Hope own 5-acres of that land. Together, we also built a 14,000 sq. ft. building to house the high school and Living Hope. For the past five years, we have been worshiping in that building.
Living Hope's and Rocky Mountain Lutheran's close relationship continues to this day and will continue far into the future. We both strive for the same goal, to reunite sinners with their Savior. And, we have found that we are both a blessing to the other in that service. Neither of us could be where we are today without the help of the other. And, we know that we can be more effective in our ministries by continuing to work together.
In the graphic below, you can see a sketch of our land. Living Hope's new church is just a stone's throw from the current high school building. It is our hope that that this new church building is just as much a blessing to Rocky Mountain Lutheran as it is to Living Hope
Down payment progress
Because of the amazing generosity of so many, our down payment fund is fully funded! This means we can start the process of designing and constructing our new building. Look for many updates in the weeks and months ahead.
And thank you again for your support of Living Hope and our efforts to reunite sinners with their Savior!
Three year commitments
To date, more than $190,000 has been committed to our 3-year goal of raising $250,000.
Commitment Form
Living Hope friends and families, if you were not able to turn in a paper commitment form during church on Sunday, you can fill out this on-line form instead. But, please only do one or the other.