Capital Campaign
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Timeline, News, and Updates
Below you will find a history of our Capital Campaign news and events, listed in reverse chronological order (with the most recent updates at the top). Click any of the tabs on the left side to learn more. Check back regularly for new updates!
2026
May 31 Congregational Vote
On Sunday May 31st, 2026, the congregation held a business meeting to discern the next steps for our building project and capital campaign.
After a brief (15 minutes!) meeting, with time for Q&A and discussion, (the congregation) voted affirmatively (80 YES, 2 NO) on the following motion:
Motion: The congregation authorizes the elders and the Building Project Steering Team to resume the work of planning for a building project, and to conduct a capital campaign to raise funds for the building project.
What this means: As we shared in our past meetings, this is not a vote to begin construction or take out loans. This is a vote to move from concept to detailed design, and to run a capital campaign that helps us discern how much we can build. Another vote will come later once costs, phasing, and fundraised amounts are known. But what this does mean is that we will begin preparing the campaign to launch in the fall of 2026. Preparation includes refining the design based on congregational input and recruiting teams to support the many aspects of the project.
Thank you to all who attended and added your vote to this process! Our steering team and elders are encouraged by the overwhelming support of moving forward, and are hopeful that this support means our team has listened to the congregation as we continue into the next step of the design and fundraising process.
Family Meeting
On May 17th we held a family meeting to discuss resuming our building project and capital campaign. Thank you to all who attended and brought your input and ideas. Your honesty, questions, and stories reflect your love for this church and one another.
For those that couldn’t attend, here’s a brief summary.
Overall, the steering team and elders felt encouraged by the meeting. We heard both excitement and important concerns, which will help guide our next steps if the congregation votes to move forward. Some of your comments are shared here.
Notes also available in PDF format:
Meeting Summary | Discussion and Feedback Summary | Questions and Responses
2025 - Fall
Phase 1 Completed!
Our summer was filled with weekly meetings to check on progress and supervise construction of our children’s wing. Visit this site to see all those updates and pictures!
Upon the creation of our capital campaign fund, a missional tithe component was affixed to any campaign gift allotting 10% of money received to be sent outside the church.
The campaign tithe we had collected allowed us to be responsive to the emergency need of a sister church in the North Shore Gospel Partnership. We are grateful for this expression of the gospel, and for all who contributed that allowed us to express this partnership in a tangible way.
2025 - Summer
Phase 1 Construction
Our summer was filled with weekly meetings to check on progress and supervise construction of our children’s wing. Visit this site to see all those updates and pictures!
2025 - Spring
Family Meeting – May 4, 2025
On Sunday, May 4th, after the second service, at 12:15 PM in the Family Room (gym), NSCBC members were requested to discuss and vote on whether the church will conduct a capital campaign in the Fall of 2025 for remaining building renovation phases, or defer this until later.
The vote resulted in the decision to defer our capital campaign to a later date.
Design Preview Meeting – April 24, 2025
On April 24 we held a preview meeting to share updates on the plans and project estimates for the remaining church building, including the sanctuary. We will also have time for conversation about the timeline and process of conducting a capital campaign.
The purpose of this meeting is to give people the information they need to make a wise and informed decision on May 4th. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Phase 1 Construction Begins
It’s finally happening! Construction under the basement (4 classrooms for Children’s Worship, Pre-K/K, 1st/2nd, and 3rd-5th grade Sunday School) starts Monday April 21!
Please be in prayer for this process–for the many logistical pieces, for the time demands on our staff, for safety and a timely completion. But mostly, please pray that these classrooms would be part of a rich, ongoing legacy of discipleship for our children–that they would come to know and love Jesus in a deeper way in this space!
Design Development
While Phase 1 design development was underway, we began exploring the iterative design phase with SV Design and Groom Construction for Phases 2 and 3—the Education Wing and the Sanctuary.
Estimating
Working closely with our architect and construction company estimator, we gathered more focused estimates on the overall project cost, and explored some cost saving measures such as omitting a potential 2nd story addition.
2025 - Winter
Phase 1 Beginnings
This fall, after securing quotes from three companies and working with a consultant, we identified SV Design and Groom Construction to work with for Phase I. Since then, we have been working closely with SV Design and Groom Construction on a plan that will meet the needs and fit the ethos of our church.
Phase 1 Focus Groups
In January, we held a focus group attended by many of our Children’s program teachers, to review and discuss several sets of designs drawn up by SV Designs. You can view those designs, along with a summary of the focus group conversation, at the links below.
2024
Focus Groups – Summer
In the summer of 2024 we gathered focus groups related to three distinct ministry areas: Children/Youth, Worship, and Fellowship/Outreach to further identify needs and refine ideas related to specific spaces and their use.
Conceptual Designs – May and June
In May and June we shared the first draft of a conceptual design for the church campus. This concept takes feedback from our listening sessions and survey
Family Meeting – April 28, 2024
On April 28th, we gathered the congregation and sought affirmation to move forward by an informal show-of-hands to move forward on two parallel fronts:
- Direct an architect to help move from priorities and values to concrete ideas and plans.
- Engage a campaign consultant to help us raise money toward our project, through an approach that is guided by scripture, that involves a large percentage of church members in the work of the campaign as well as the giving toward the campaign, and is based on prayer and joyful sacrifice instead of pressure and manipulation.
Building Survey – March/April
In the Spring of 2024, we conducted a survey to gain feedback on our current building needs and future potential. Click the link below to view a report of the survey responses.
Listening Sessions – March and April
In March and April we held listening sessions to confirm the discernment of the leadership team.
As a Baptist church with a strong congregational polity, we believe that God speaks strongly through the collective voice of the congregation. So as we gathered and organized feedback, we looked for consensus to help us discern what to explore. From the listening sessions and the survey, we found consensus in…
- Unifying our children’s ministry spaces within a single, expanded location, on the lower level, including under the gym (capacity issues, need for convenience, storage, check-ins, safety, noise during worship service, etc.)
- Unifying and beautifying the sanctuary (reuniting and opening up the front and back, natural light, addressing sensory/accessibility issues, beautiful focal point at front, possible balcony, etc)
- Making the building easier to navigate (eliminating confusion, welcoming visitors, etc.) and creating a larger gathering area for Sunday fellowship.
- Opening spaces for discipleship, outreach, and ministry (e.g. small groups, places for prayer, small and medium classrooms and spaces, as well as informal ‘living room’ spaces for fellowship.)
- Improved supportive spaces, including centralized offices, accessible bathrooms, a sensory respite room, nursing mothers’ space, and better storage throughout.
2023
Scope and Scale
One of the first questions we asked is “how big?” We knew that something needed to be done, but how much would be required? The longer we sat with this question and the closer we looked at our needs, the more we realized that our building is not adequately supporting the ministry contained inside. Not only are deferred maintenance projects accumulating, ministries are hindered by lack of physical space and the energy of our leaders is being wasted on unnecessary projects in attempt to work around the constraints of our building.
Discovery
In 2023 NSCBC leadership began having conversations about improving our physical spaces to better support our mission. We gathered church leadership (Staff, Deacons, & Elders) to outline the problem and propose possible solutions. The result was a unanimous decision to explore a capital campaign to address the building’s physical limitations.
In consultation with Elders and church leadership, a capital campaign committee was formed. This group has been hard at work gathering information from ministry leaders, meeting with consultants, organizing our listening sessions, and dreaming together about what could be.
