God has added many functioning ministries
to the church and many souls to the vineyard under Lockhart's
administration including: ministries
The church has grown in every aspect, spiritually
as well as numerically. Thirty-one associate ministers assist
the pastor in many endeavors. The membership has increased
from just over 400 to approximately 1800. This trmendous
growth necessitated a full time secretary for the computerized
administrative operations of the church. This increase also
necessitates a larger sanctuary. To fill this need, five
acres were purchased at the corner of Whitlock and Lindley
to build a new sanctuary.
Pastor Lockhart is a dreamer and among his
dreams for Pleasant Grove's future is to finish paying off
the property at Whitlock and Lindley and to build a facility
that will meet the needs of today and the future. Among
those facilities, Lockhart lists a sanctuary that will seat
2,000 complete with balcony; a chapel; a fellowship hall;
which can be converted to a gymnasium; an educational facility;
a TV and Tape Ministry; a full time daycare; adequate office
space, a fully equipped finance room; a conference room;
a pastor's study; and a historical room in which to store
documents significant to our history and future.
Pastor Lockhart is grateful for every ministry
that God has allowed him to organize and for the kind of
leaders that God has sent him to carry Pleasant Grove to
greater heights.
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