Financial Update

As part of Growing in Faith, most of our members made a commitment to give over and above their "regular" giving for the next three years. These three-year commitments are the “bread and butter” of paying for the property and moving ahead with development. Here is a snapshot of what the first three months have looked like. Praise God for what He has done!

The Speed Of Progress

It seems that we are exceeding the speed limit on the highway of progress. In fact, we are moving forward so fast that we are actually asking our building design team to slow down. Here’s why:
The architect has been able to move so quickly, we’re actually moving faster than the money is coming in.
The Growing In Faith commitments come in at about $13,000.00 per month. Of that amount, about $9,150.00 goes toward property payments, taxes, etc. The amount that’s left is being used to move the process forward.
At this time the remaining cost to develop a plot plan for county submittal is $40,000.00. As soon as this money comes in, we will be moving full steam ahead.

Thanks to our members we have been able to make progress faster than we ever thought we could! As a result of your continued giving we will be able to continue to move forward.

Details, Details

Each week we get a little closer to an overall design. Our architect says that by early July we should have a plan to submit to the county for approval!
We’ve had some great building design ideas come in from our members.

Here are just a few:

Pews
A baptismal with a fountain
Fun stuff painted on the walls
Let the youth group paint their own space
A hardwood floor for dancing and basketball
A room for games such as ping pong, darts, billiards etc.

As you can see we are hard at work putting our thoughts on paper for the building design. Pictured are: Mike Wagner (He's the good looking one), Gary Laughlin (Our civil engineer), and Tracey Powel (Architectural designer).
Keep your comments regarding the building coming! We would like as much input from our members as possible as we move through this process!

This is an initial drawing of a building that would fit on our site. It represents a first stab at what could work on the site and may or may not be the final shape and size. That being said, here are some details about what you are looking at:

Total square footage (first floor) = 26,000
Approximate total square footage (first and second floors) = 42,000
Total parking spaces = 186
Approximate width = 112 feet
Approximate length = 226 feet
Scale is 1”= 60’

Keeping Up With Progress

Our architectural team is working hard on the overall layout and footprint of our new church home. In fact, we will be receiving an initial topographical drawing in the next couple of days. You will be able to see it right here on the blog.

stay tuned!!

Future Home!

Here is a picture of our Sunday afternoon ceremony where we unveiled the "Future Home" sign on our property

Give Us Your Input!

We are meeting with our architect every week and we would love to have input from our members.
What would you like to see in a new church building?
A coffee shop?
A book store?
A large kitchen?
No suggestion is a bad suggestion. To weigh in on the process, simply send an email or post a comment right here on the blog.

Go Ahead! Give It A Try!

A Dream Come True!

We did something on Sunday that we have been dreaming about for years. We placed a “Future Home of New Life Community Church” sign on the property for all to see! Approximately 60-70 people came to the property to watch the unveiling of the sign and pose for a group photo.
I wonder what we will think of that picture when we look at it ten years from now.

Sign Raising Ceremony

Everyone is invited to a special sign raising ceremony. Be there as we set up our “Future Home of New Life” sign on the property.

Join us on Sunday afternoon as we pause to celebrate what God has done.

The all-family event will be from 1:00 -1:15 on Sunday afternoon, April 9th.

For directions to the site, see below

Moving Forward

Our architect is ready to get started!
The name of the firm is Kroh Architects. If you are interested in seeing their work, there are a few places you can check out.

The new coffee shop at Harvest Christian Fellowship

The Infinity dealer showroom in the Riverside Auto Center

Cal Baptist University Yeager Center

The BMW dealer showroom in the Riverside Auto Center

The new Malcolm Smith Motorcycles building in progress right now off of the 91 fwy. and Madison

Share your story!

We are now a couple weeks past Celebration Sunday. Many of our members took steps of faith to give their gifts. We are looking forward to hearing stories of how God come through for you! Take time to honor God by sharing what He has done for you. Email us your stories at growinginfaith@newlifecommunitychurch.

Meeting a fellow believer

It's fun to see the connections God brings. While on the property the foreman overseeing the grading came up and said, "you must be from the church!" He is active in his local church and was happy to know a group of fellow believers would be moving onto the site he was working on. Here is a picture of Mike Hannah and him on the property.

Grading has begun!

Grading is going gangbusters at the property. Truckloads of dirt have been brought onto the lot and then spread out with earthmoving equipment. The goal is to raise entire site to a certian level needed for property drainage.

Looking Back at Celebration Sunday

One of the members sent us a picture they took with their camera phone of our big day! Remember the excitment when the total was announced!

It Finally Happened!

For the first time ever, New Life Community Church is the proud owner of a piece of property in the South Corona area. As a result of the heartfelt commitments, the faith, the prayers and the support of our church members, God has blessed us with a piece of property where we can build a permanent church home. The property is 2.86 acres and is undergoing the grading process right now. If you would like to see it for yourself, take the 15 fwy. to Weirick Rd. Turn east to Temescal Canyon Rd. then go south. Turn left on Pulsar Ct. in the Wildrose Business Park, drive to the end of the street, look left and there it is! It’s beautiful, isn’t it?

Getting Closer

What a crazy week! We continue to put all of the puzzle pieces together as we anxiously approach the escrow closing date. The bank is putting loan documents together, the escrow company is putting title/deed documents together, and the seller is continuing the grading process at the property site.
Please pray with us that the next few days go smoothly and are marked by God’s presence and provision.

Next Step

Here is where we are at with the property:
We have raised enough money to purchase 2.86 acres of the 5 acres that we originally hoped to purchase.
We are planning on closing escrow on that portion on March 16th.
Let us thank God for continuing to open doors for us!!