MOVE: Seat To Send
28,000 people in McDowell County don’t attend church. That’s 2 out of every 3 McDowell Countians. 24,000 of these refer to themselves as “nones” meaning they have no religious engagement at all. Grace started in “The Attic” on the east side of town 26 years ago, and since then we have added more seats, first moving into our current building, and then going to two services in this building, and now three.
Seated to Send is the second phase of MOVE, an initiative we began in 2025 to raise funds to build student and parent meeting space, and purchase the adjacent house and land for kids aging out of foster care and also to fund our ministry budget.
A MOVE for our Neighbors and Nations!
Our mission at Grace is to REACH RAISE & SEND. Phase 2 will expand our worship seating to almost 1,000 seats! What is our motivation? The 28,000 who, if they died today, would spend eternity separated from God. Our mission to reach them, raise them up and send them out will not end until Jesus Christ returns! It will cost $2.1m.
How will we pay for this? As you continue to give to MOVE, all giving above our budget goes to Ministry Expansion. If you’re new to Grace, please join us in giving so that we can seat more people and see them come to faith in Jesus Christ.
A MOVE for the Next Generation!
At Grace we stand on tall shoulders of people who prioritized kids, youth and families from day one. We still do. On Wednesdays more than 300 kids, students and parents pack our campus for Kidlife, Youth Worship and Adult Life Groups. We are building a two-story, 11,000 square-foot discipleship space. The top floor will be for students and their discipleship, the bottom floor for Life Groups of students’ parents. The building will also be the primary lobby space on Sundays for worship.
First Floor - Life Groups of students’ parents.
Second Floor - Student ministry space.
“God’s further blessings are sufficient to meet the needs that his former blessings caused. God caused problems have God’s unlimited resources for their solution.”
How Will We Do This?
100% Engagement
Together. Since the first purchase of land 25 years ago, the Grace family has sacrificially given to see God’s work happen. This will be no different. Our goal is 100% Prayerful Engagement…everybody giving as God leads and enables them to give. In other words, every gear working. Every. Single. One.
Faithful Giving
Already the Grace family is on track to give $2 million to our Ministry Plan (budget, Preschool and Missions this year!) Go God! We will add missions and preschool giving to our annual Ministry Plan to insure that those needs will be met.
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