A LETTER FROM THE ELDERS

Greetings, church family!

Over the past year, “great grace has been upon us all” (Acts 4:33) as we have seen nearly a thousand more people find a church home here. From January 2022 to January 2023, over 900 new people are attending our worship services every week. That means every area of ministry has also experienced this growth! And the most encouraging thing is that we’ve been able to care for and disciple the people God keeps bringing through our doors, helping them grow in their faith and desire to pursue life and mission with Jesus. However, we have grown to the point that we are just about out of space.

Our weekly attendance has increased from 1,600 in 2016 when we added Auditorium 2 and the Next Gen building (Building B) to 3,100 in average attendance today. Our services are packed, and that’s one reason we added a 5:00 pm service, and fortunately, that did free up about 175 seats on Sunday morning. But again, those Sunday morning seats are filling up again.

In order to create more space to care for and disciple the people God keeps bringing here, we considered building an “Auditorium 3” on the back of our property. But, as we pursued that possibility, the Adam’s Mill YMCA property was brought to our attention. We placed a bid of $5.5 million for the property (25 acres and a 38.000 sq/ft building) and won the bid! Even though the YMCA received offers higher than ours, God gave us favor in their eyes.

After much prayer and discussion with our architect, construction company, and bank, we’ve now done the due diligence work of what it will take to purchase and renovate the Adam’s Mill YMCA to make it “Fellowship Greenville: Adam’s Mill.” This brochure will unpack all the details for you by giving you the what, why, and how of the opportunity we believe God has placed before us.

So, we ask you to prayerfully read through this proposal with an openness to partner with God in what He’s doing here. It truly is a God-sized project that will require faith and sacrifice. But, we’ve been here before. Moving from Augusta Road to Woodruff Road, moving from Woodruff Road to our current location, building the two buildings out front— at first, all those projects seemed impossible to the congregations of people in our past who faced those steps of faith. But what did God do?

God turned the seemingly impossible into the building you enter here every week. He multiplied the ministries of the past into the ministry that cares for and disciples you and your family today.

Grace and peace, The Elders of Fellowship Greenville