Church's wandering ends at building primed for growth

By THOMAS GALLICK Wednesday January 21, 2015 9:10 AM

For the Rev. John Hohe, the best part of Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church's new building might just be the windows.

He said the building's architect included a large number of windows to allow members of the congregation to look out on their community -- and let the community look in.

"The best way to do that is to have a lot more windows than walls," Hohe said.

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sunday, Jan. 18, for its new building at 3924 Home Road in Powell.

The ceremony ended the church's 13-year journey through multiple temporary homes.

The church was founded in January 2002 after about 35 members of St. John Lutheran Church in Dublin left to form a new church to serve residents of the Lewis Center and Powell areas. The congregation initially met at Liberty Middle School for about a year before moving to a shopping center off U.S. Route 23.

"That was pretty much the traditional way to start a church -- to get a small group and expect to grow," Hohe said.

Hohe arrived in 2004 and watched the church outgrow the shopping-center space. It moved to its penultimate home at a rental space at 478 W. Olentangy St. in 2008.

The new location is about 11,300 square feet, which is more than double the size of the church's previous home. Construction on the project started in May 2014.

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Church's wandering ends at building primed for growth