LifeChurch.tv’s church construction near Broadway Extension …

Construction of a new LifeChurch.tv campus near Britton Road and the Broadway Extension has drawn avid curiosity just as it has ignited the hope for new partnerships in the area.

The new LifeChurch.tv Moore campus at 2916 S Telephone Road, is scheduled to open in December. Photo provided

Bobby Gruenewald, the church's pastor-innovation leader, said he thinks the project's visibility on the west side Broadway Extension service road has spurred people's interest in the megachurch's latest development plans.

He said the campus will be the church's eighth metro area location when it opens in summer 2014. LifeChurch.tv currently has 17 campuses in Oklahoma and four other states. A Moore campus set to open in December will be the 18th satellite and the Britton and Broadway campus will be number 19. Gruenewald said total average weekend attendance of all the churches is 50,000.

The Edmond-based megachurch, with founder and senior pastor Craig Groeschel at the helm, has drawn the public's interest because of its multisite approach almost as much as its popular YouVersion Bible app.

Gruenewald said church leaders chose the new campus site in northwest Oklahoma City after about a year of searching for a metro area location, finally setting their sights on several pieces of property along the Broadway Extension.

This part of the city is an area that we felt we had not yet connected with, he said.

He said church leaders looked at the neighborhood and the accessibility of the current site and decided to move forward for plans for a new 37,000 square-foot church building west of Broadway and south of Britton Road.

We really viewed that as a positive, he said of the nearby neighborhood and highway access.

Gruenewald said LifeChurch.tv satellite campuses are in various places, with some near poorer areas while others are adjacent to more affluent areas. He said LifeChurch.tv routinely partners with organizations and businesses near its many campuses so the Britton-Broadway campus will be no different.

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