The offices for our church & ministry staff are located at 20 Court Street in Historic Downtown Winchester. You will find us located right alongside City Hall, the County Courthouse, the Winchester Municipal Jail, and the offices of the Winchester Sun.
As the ministries of our church have grown over the past few years, we were running out of space in the main building at Redwing Drive. We considered every alternative for adding space - drawing up plans and getting cost estimates on 3 or 4 different ways to add on and reconfigure the building. And then it dawned us that there are empty office spaces and store fronts all over our community. The cheapest way for us to add space was to move out - so we did. Our old offices spaces were immediately converted into additional lobby space & new classrooms for the school.
While we knew that moving our offices would provide some relief for our space issues, we were totally unaware of what this move would mean philosophically for our church staff and Pastors. Being downtown has greatly increased our interaction with the community on a daily basis. Parking your car on Main Street and walking a block or two to the office everyday is a vastly different experience than parking in the church parking lot and spending your day locked away in a massive church building. We daily have interactions with people that we would not have met otherwise. We are thankful for this, as it has transformed how we think about our community and our role in it.
We invite you to come visit us anytime in our simple downtown living space. It has a small reception area, 7 small offices (120 sq. ft), a small kitchen, a meeting room, and a bathroom. Two staff members are already sharing one of those 120 sq. ft. offices, so this space isn't going to be a forever solution, but it's working just fine for now.