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Something wonderful is unfolding here at Pure Life Ministries. The Lord has been leading us to build a new chapel â âthe House of the Lord.â
For nearly 40 years, our ministry has been a prophetic voice to the American Church and a shelter from the toxic environment of sin and sensuality all around us. The need for a consecrated place to meet with God has never been greater.
Today millions feast greedily on illicit imagery, immoral lifestyles are flaunted as normal, and children are inundated with destructive ideologies. Sadly, many churches have begun to reflect this worldly mindset, compromising what is truly important for cultural relevance, to gain attention and grow their numbers.
The average service often begins with glitzy worship performances and quickly moves into 30-minute sermonettes with no life and no fire. Members leave with their flesh stimulated, but without having had an encounter with the living God. As a result, many professing Christians are spiritually starving without the Truth they need to nourish their souls.
This is completely different from the spiritual atmosphere of the Pure Life Ministries Chapel. Since it was built in 2000, our little chapel has held over 5000 meetings where those in desperate need can sit in the presence of God and experience the kind of radical encounter with Him that can alter their eternity. Thousands of Christians can point to the exact spot in that building where they met with God.
But the space in our current chapel is no longer big enough to meet our expanding needs. We are bursting at the seams. When our chapel was built, we had 35 students and 15 staff. Today, our student population reaches 75 and our staff size has tripled to 45. As our staff marry and have children, and our students regularly have their own visitors, we are regularly maxing out our 135 seating capacity.
Additionally, the Lord has also been burdening us to host special meetings with different speakers throughout the year. So itâs our desire to welcome graduates and guests to join us for these meetings, providing a place for all to be refreshed in Godâs presence.
We anticipate construction being completed sometime in 2025. We hope you will consider partnering with us as we begin this new endeavor.
Have a testimony of God meeting you in our chapel? Send it to us to be added above!
Thirty-three years ago, we stepped out in faith to purchase the 45-acre property that now houses our Residential Program. The first thing we undertook was to renovate and expand âthe main houseâ for student housing. Â
Since then, we have built a student center, a chapel, 2 office buildings, 2 dorm buildings and 2 shop buildings. We also provided staff housing by constructing 4 apartments and 7 houses as well as purchasing 7 doublewide mobile homes. Thanks to our generous donors, Pure Life Ministries has no debt on any of our properties. We are eternally grateful to the Lord and our supporters for the consistent provision for this needed work!Â
Clearly, we have a long history of stepping out in faith as we have undertaken these various purchases and building projects. The great need continually pushed us out of our comfort zone and into the somewhat scary realm of trusting that the Lord was indeed leading us and would provide for us.Â
The idea of a new chapel began as our meetings would overflow at times into the student center. We also envisioned being able to hold special meetings every quarter for friends of the ministry. Once again, we had our concerns, but perhaps our ongoing successes made us over-confident. Â
Whatever the case may be, because the building would be open to the outside public, the state (rather than the more tolerant county) became involved. This brought about a host of regulations and building requirements we have never faced before. As the costs began skyrocketing, we decided that we needed to put this project on hold until we were absolutely positive that God was indeed leading us to undertake it. Â
We do apologize for any inconvenience this has caused any of you. Thank you again for your trust and generosity.
In Christ,
Steve Gallagher,
President
