Making room for church expansion

Pastor Patrick Maxwell of Victory Christian Center in Union County, Fla., has a good problem: his church is growing so much that he needed to find room to expand. His church currently meets in Lake Butler Elementary School. In a Bradford County Telegraph article, Maxwell relates how he found a new location:

Every church service, he would ride right past an old building with the weeds and grass grown up around it because it had sat vacant for a number of years. He never gave it much thought.

'One day, on my way to the elementary school for church, I happened to look over and God spoke to me and told me that place right across the street from the school was a great place for a church building. I just needed to open my eyes and see it,' Maxwell said.

Victory Christian Center currently has 160 members, and 50 percent of them are under the age of 18.