OUR STORY
Our church officially started in January 2016. From the beginning, our aim has been to be a healthy, gospel-centered church attracting people from the Lexington/Irmo area.
We started with several dozen members of our Downtown church who were already living in the area and wanted to see a local church birthed here to reach our friends and neighbors with the good news of Jesus. For the first several years of our existence, we met at Meadow Glen Elementary School, where we spent lots of early mornings loading things in to turn a cafetorium into a church gathering space.
In late 2019 we purchased a building at 924 E. Main St, blessed to find a home base for our ministry right in the middle of our area, and in January 2021 we moved in.
One of the first sermons we preached was called “6 Dreams for Midtown Lexington.” In it, we outlined our desire to be:
A baptizing church–seeing new believers come to faith in Christ.
A multi-generational church–seeing people of all age demographics helping one another follow Jesus.
A multi-ethnic church–putting on display that the grace of Jesus unites.
An adopting church–where families who know they’ve been spiritually adopted through Christ decide to adopt orphans into their families.
A generous church–where the generosity we’ve received in Christ flows outward to support God’s mission.
A multiplying church–where our LifeGroups, and eventually our church, multiplies to spread the beauty of what we have.
By God’s grace, we have seen evidence of many of these dreams and are still pursuing this vision. We’d love for you to hop in so we can follow Jesus together!
Our Philosophy of Ministry
Everything we do runs through the filter of helping us become a Jesus-centered family on mission with Him. We want to demonstrate the effects the gospel of Jesus has on people by sharing our lives as church family on mission, welcoming people into God’s family and testifying to the blood of Jesus that breaks down walls dividing us from God and each other.
We love our Sunday Gatherings, where we gather as one big family to worship Jesus for who He is and what He’s doing in our city. However, we don’t want to simply be a crowd of people who gather on Sundays. Instead, we hope to be people who build our entire lives around the person and work of Jesus, share life together as a spiritual extended family, and live everyday as missionaries to the people around us. And that’s impossible to do during an hour and a half on Sundays.
The primary expression of our vision is our LifeGroups. Simply speaking, they are how we do church. LifeGroups meet in homes throughout our area and create networks of gospel-centered friendships, building relationships through regular rhythms of life by eating together, playing together, and serving together. They are the core of our church family, functioning as smaller groups of people being church family on mission together.
LifeGroups seek to practice the "one another" commands of the New Testament (love one another, encourage one another, confess your sins to one another, serve one another) on a daily basis and we encourage everyone, even non-Christians checking out the teachings of Jesus, to join a LifeGroup.
Would you like to join up with us to explore Jesus, or to plug into church family and be on mission with us? We’d love to have you. For more about our LifeGroups or to sign up for one, visit our LifeGroups page. Or drop us a line below.