The purpose of Stonegate Build is to ESTABLISH a discipleship training center, ENGAGE our community throughout the week, and EXPAND our worship spaces into a disciple-making hub so communities can flourish.

We are developing a three-year program (Train for Influence) that will begin in October 2024. This program will consist of what we call Milestone Courses and Core Practices. Milestone Courses are essential courses, groups, and experiences designed to help you develop into a worshiper, friend, apprentice, and guide who can disciple others. These Milestones can serve as significant markers of change or transformation as you follow Jesus. Core Practices are designed to create environments where you can learn and experience the character and skills necessary to become everyday disciples.

We will heavily rely on our Milestone Courses and Core Practices, but we know there will be plenty of ministry opportunities once these spaces are created. Sunday school options may not be out of the question.

Yes, if you have any ideas, please email build@stonegatefellowship.com. We understand the need to name it, but we don’t want to rush that decision now.

 We want our space to be a welcoming oasis on the north side of Midland, a place where everyone wants to spend some part of their day with us. We don’t have exact times, but we may consider extended community hours to accommodate those West Texas schedules. 

Estimated costs are just estimates based on the best information available today. We believe the total cost should be approximately $42.5 million.

We will need to take on short-term debt during the construction phase. We will secure a line of credit from the bank that we will be able to utilize as needed. As we receive funds from our members, we will use them to pay down the balance on the line of credit.

No. We will simply use the line of credit to cover our expenses during construction and repay it as our members contribute funds. Any remaining debt at the end of construction will be refinanced into a short-term loan and paid off as quickly as possible.

We would love to have $5-8 million on hand before starting construction.

We can only estimate the interest rate when we start using the line of credit. The more money we raise at the beginning, the longer it will be before we need to use a line of credit. It is estimated that the interest rate could be somewhere between 7-7.5%.

At this time, we anticipate an extra $500,000 per year in operating costs related solely to the new building. This amount represents approximately 4.4% of our current annual operating budget of $11.2 million. To put it into perspective, $500,000 is roughly the same as what we pay for our youth and kids to attend camp for a week each year.

The new space includes 17 classrooms and two large group rooms.

The auditorium remodel is currently projected to take approximately 15 months.

While construction is happening in the auditorium and foyer, we will be worshiping in the new 500-seat chapel, the two large rooms next to the new chapel, and Building F. This should seat 1000 people per service.

 The cost of a new worship center and a remodel of the existing one could easily be more than the proposed community space, and the current space isn’t large enough to accommodate 23 community spaces.

The new worship center would have a maximum of 1740 seats, and the Chapel would have 500-600 seats.