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Grace Announces Plans for a Second Campus In El Dorado Springs, Missouri
Grace United Methodist Church (Lee’s Summit, MO) – January 11, 2015
Today we announce our plan to launch a second campus in El Dorado Springs, MO. Our new campus is on the site of the former El Dorado Springs United Methodist Church, which closed in 2014. There are 3000 people that live in El Dorado Springs, and within 5 miles, 5000 people.
This expansion is not a church plant. It is a satellite campus. This means it is not a separate church, but a second Grace United Methodist Church campus. Over the next few months we will outline our plans for reaching new people for Jesus Christ in El Dorado Springs.
The mission and programming will mirror our programming and missional strategy. It is the same pastoral team and same philosophy of ministry. There is one Lead Pastor, one staff, one organizational structure, one ministry budget and one leadership team. We will be replicating as much of our ministries as possible at our second site in order to extend the gospel message into a new area.
Currently, there are a few faithful former members that attend a 10:45 am Legacy service. It is our intention to partner with them in developing an outreach strategy to and with the community. We assume preaching responsibilities next Sunday. We will strengthen the current worship service with the intention of adding a 9:15 am contemporary worship service with children’s ministries in the fall of 2015.
If you feel called to be apart of campus leadership team to help, please contact the church office immediately. We are in need of passionate people to reach out in the name of Christ. Our pastoral staff and leadership team have been praying about a second campus for the past few years. Several opportunities had previously come before us and we did not feel we were ready to move forward with them. We did not feel the other situations were where God was leading us.
And yes, Camp Galilee is in El Dorado Springs Missouri. We are sad to see the camp close and if possible would love to utilize the facility to reach people for Jesus Christ, but currently, our second campus is not connected to anything that is or will go on at Camp Galilee.
We have been praying about this and working on this step for several years. I am so excited to see it come to fruition and to watch our church take this bold step of faith to extend the gospel message. Thank you and please pray for Grace church as we continue to reach out. We are light in the darkness, for the non-churched, once-churched and badly churched.