Proposed Initiatives & Projects

Over the next three years, we'd like to invest in these areas.

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• ​Food and Housing Insecurity. Our congregation said they felt strongly about outreach and service opportunities in this area for Scott County and beyond. Here are a couple of the ways we are helping to address this:

  • Hope's Portage​

  • Community Plate

• Enhancing the SOLLC campus physical space to align with inclusivity, accessibility, and critical updates for continued use of the building

  • Building maintenance items​

    • HVAC system - 20+ years old​

    • Boiler replacement - 20+ years old

    • New digital screens in the Worship Center - technology is no longer working with these old screens

  • Campus Refresh  - Click for a detailed presentation

    • Foundational First Impressions - integrating a more welcoming and gathering space when you enter the building with a coffee shop, updated staff offices and meeting rooms, and wayfinding signage and messaging​

    • Lakeview Connections - Updating and expanding the Upper Great Room to offer a more intimate worship space, updated kitchen, bathrooms and an outdoor deck with access to the courtyard

    • Spaces for Growth and belonging - safer and more accessible learning spaces for children and student programming incorporating family-friendly universal restrooms​​

    • General updated furnishings, worship center and lower level meeting room refinements

• Growing our engagement and enhancing the experiences and opportunities to grow in faith

  • Annual speaker series​

  • Annual parenting and family conference

  • Enhancing the Lakeside Music Studio and Theater offerings

  • Investments in new expressions of faith communities in the Twin Cities serving younger and more diverse populations​