Someone who has been putting in tons of hours serving at the new building has been Justin Matulewicz. For those of you who don’t know him, Justin has been part of the church for twenty years…

I write with two big updates today. First, construction has started at 2531 E Lehigh Ave! On Monday morning…

We unrolled Project Sanctuary Renewed at our service at our Sunday service on November 16. If you missed it…

In the Spring of 2024, Liberti launched Project Sanctuary, where we raised pledges for the financing and renovation of our future church home at 2531 E Lehigh Ave. We envision…

Just a quick update to say that we closed on our construction loan today! Dave Wenger and I got everything in line, traveled to our title company, and signed the papers…

I have a major update today! Dave Wenger and I have set a closing date with our lender for the construction loan: Wednesday, October 29. Please be praying that…

Over the past few months, many folks from the church (of all ages!) have come to the new building to pull up hardwood floors. They have done the tedious work of pulling the floors up…

So one confusing thing about Project Sanctuary has been when I reference “the building team.” If you have ever asked, “who is the building team?”, know that you are not alone!…

God has provided us with a construction loan! The loan will come through Christian Investors Financial (CIF). CIF is an organization that provides faith-based financial solutions that serve Kingdom expansion. They provide…

We have picked a General Contractor! The firm doing the work at the building will be JCLR Construction. How did we pick JCLR? Over the course of this year, our building team…

As of the end of July, Liberti has received over $1 million for Project Sanctuary! Join me in thanking God for us hitting this huge milestone. This giving has come from all kinds of places…

Where are WE at with the building? That is the most common question I get these days at Liberti, and, for reasons I will explain, I love the question every time I get it. Before I get into that answer in full, I want to start by drawing attention to the word “we” in the question…

We have been able to do a lot in the building over the past year. It was a year of demolition: we had two rummage sales, loaded a full dumpster of stuff from inside in the building, and spent months clearing out walls and wires. Many of us have…

What is happening with the building? The short answer is that we are continuing to work with our architects at Hexagon. Our internal architecture team– Justin Matulewicz, Scott Hicks, Colleen Etherton, Madison Klee, and me– met with Hexagon in August...

The week of June 16th, the Liberti Communion held a youth service trip focused on our own city of Philadelphia, partnering with various ministries that are doing good work to alleviate both spiritual and physical needs...

What’s the latest? What is going on with the building? For the most part, the building has been sitting empty this summer. I’ve had a few meetings there. Scott Hicks and co. have had one or two days when they have rented a Uhaul and taken a few tons of stuff out of the building…

As of the end of May, I am excited to announce that we have already received $500k of the $1.4 million pledged. Even though we are only a few months into the three-year window for Project Sanctuary, we are already over one-third of the way there.

Join me in thanking God!

We have a guest post this week from the Bradley family on how their family prayed that God would give us this building. I hope you find this story encouraging.

Hey everybody! We have started receiving questions from folks on how to start giving to Project Sanctuary. I thought I would give you all a quick FAQ! Thank you for your generosity.