The new campus is located at 1151 Mansfield Webb Road, Arlington, TX. It has been the home of Koinonia Church for the last several years, and they will be moving to a new home at HWY 360 & Green Oaks. It is presently owned by Walnut Ridge who partnered with several other churches to build the campus seven years ago for a church they planted called Rockway (which is now called 412 Church), and then consequently began leasing it to Koinonia.

The campus is right at 12 acres, and there is an option in the future for an additional 8 acres.

Here is a list of a handful of reasons we believe God has given us the opportunity to have this new campus at this time.

• It is less than three minutes from our current meeting place on Sundays.
• It allows us to stay right here in the same neighborhood that we have been anchored in the last five years.
• It is less than a mile from five different MISD schools and next door to Ima Jean Gideon, Elementary.
• There is a park directly across from it where hundreds of families gather throughout the week and weekends, and it is currently undergoing a 1.5 million dollar expansion for it to be even a better place for people from the community to gather.
• It provides for our growth needs with a 460 seat auditorium, great children’s space, and more.
• It sits on more land than we currently own – 12 acres w/option for 8 more (ours is 10).
• It is the same square footage we have been planning to build at half the price, and it is available.

The school has been a great place for us to meet over these past five years, but we cannot stay there. The MISD only contracts with churches to use their schools for a limited number of years, and we have been blessed to have two one-year extensions. Our current contract runs out in June 2012.

God has blessed us over the last 3 ½ years with an incredible piece of property that has been our home base for ministry. While we have anticipated it being where we would build our first facilities, it appears now it was a tool for ministry God gave us until He would lead us to this new campus. While we would like to keep it for continued and future ministry opportunities, all wisdom leads us towards selling it and to focus on fully utilizing the new campus God is giving us. Therefore our plans are to put it on the market, and upon selling it the equity will be used to help with the funding for the new campus.

We are confident God is giving us this new campus as a place to have a significant footprint to touch and impact the community. With that said, at TCAL in order to stay focused on RESCUE (the Great Commission), our DNA is to always be a church planting church, both by helping plant other churches and by planting other TCAL campuses. We have every intention to lay our stakes down at this new campus for years to come, and at the same time be open and looking for where God wants us to grow in the right time to continue the RESCUE.

Yes, we will always anticipate having multiple services, as it is the best way to be good stewards of the space God has given us, and make room for more people to experience worship with us.

There is no doubt this new campus puts an increased financial responsibility on TCAL. We have anticipated that coming as we were looking towards building our first facility next year. This new campus actually helps us be much better stewards than if we were to have built as this campus will be HALF THE PRICE compared to the cost of building on our current land. As long as the community of faith at TCAL is faithful to give God His tithe (Malachi 3:10 ) and are a part of our So Others May Live Initiatives, we will have more than enough resources to take care of our needs and be able to do the ministry God calls us to.

After our successful So Others May Live 3 Initiative in the spring, and when we find a buyer for our current property, we believe those two things will allow us to purchase this new campus as our home within the next 12 months.

December 4^th is the Sunday we are planning to be able to have our first service at the new campus. The original date for our first service was November 6^th, but has been changed to December 4^th.

It will take ALL OF US to help make this move happen over this next month. We presently have a transition team working on planning all that will need to take place and how we all can be involved. Here is what you need to do:

1. Complete the form below to let us know you are interested, and we will be sure to keep you informed.
2. If you are involved in a ministry team, connect with your leaders and let them know your desire to be a part and help.
3. Anticipate on Sundays Nov. 13^th & 20^th learning details on where and how you can get involved.

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