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Buying a
church property

We believe that owning our own property will help us better fulfil our goals as a church: both our primary goal of making faithful disciples of Jesus, and our secondary goals of being of help and encouragement to other churches, and planting new churches in areas in need of a healthy, Bible-teaching church.

We have a rare opportunity to buy an especially beautiful and strategic church property! There are many reasons it would be a blessing to own this property, but the main ones are long term stability (no risk of being told we can't rent our venue any more), more use of the property for ministry (all week, not just for a few hours on Sunday), more space (especially for joint events with other churches), and the use of rooms we don't have at our rental venue (a kitchen, a fellowship hall, and indoor space for children's ministry). There's a house on the property too, and lots of open land, which opens up many ministry possibilities for the future, Lord willing (we have several exciting ideas!). 


The sellers have accepted our offer to purchase. All in all, we need to raise R4 million. We have already made a deposit of R500,000 on the property, and we have a further R2,690,000 either donated or pledged (as of 21 November). In order to pay off everything and buy the property without a bond, we need to raise R810,000 (about $45,000) more before 31 January, 2025.

Please pray with us! We'd also greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation towards helping us buy this property. If you would like to pledge a donation for a later time (before 31 January 2025), please email pastor Donovan at drews.1hope@gmail.com and let us know how much you would like to contribute. Thank you!

Donations can be sent to this account:
 

LHC Church Planting
Absa Bank, Lynnwood Ridge
Account Number: 9331410062
Branch Code: 632005
Please specify your donation is for “Pretoria West Property”


Tax Deductible Donations from the USA:

"That Side Ministries" 
 is a 5013(c) non profit organization, with board members whom one of our elders know well. They have offered to receive tax-deductible donations towards the church property. Options below.

Contact: info@thatsideministries.org 

  

  • To send a donation electronically:


Routing Number: 064209216
Account Number: 1090428671

Please specify your donation is for “Pretoria West Property”

Please be sure to send your mailing address or email address so they can send you a giving statement at the end of the year.
 

  • To send a donation by check:


Make checks payable to: "That Side Ministries"

Mail the check to:
That Side Ministries
c/o Julian Burke
PO Box 7
Old Fort, TN 37362-0007


If your mailing address does not appear on your check, please include a note with that information so they can send you a giving statement at the end of the year.

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