Empowered by God’s Spirit, we desire to build an Acts 2 church so that we will impact Troup County and the rest of the world.
They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 2:42-47)
NCC History
New Community Church was launched with great optimism on January 5, 1992 -- with an initial turnout of 42 people, 28 adults and 14 children. The next month they moved into the LaGrange movie theater in downtown LaGrange, which would become their home for the next 8½ years. The small but motivated group persisted and people began to respond. After five years, average attendance grew to 250 people, and the staff grew from one to five. During that time the rented facilities were expanded 5 times, acquiring buildings on either side of the theater. Most of the facility expansion was to accommodate the burgeoning children's and student ministry. Then, perhaps sooner than they expected, the LaGrange Theater and one of the adjacent buildings was sold in April, 1997 and the church was notified they would have to relocate.
Faced with no facilities in LaGrange large enough to rent that would hold the growing church, the highly motivated congregation rallied in June, 1998 to buy 18.1 acres of wooded land on South Davis Road. Groundbreaking for the initial 30,000 square foot facility was celebrated in May, 1999. Two hundred twenty-two families made substantial personal sacrifices towards the incredible goal of completing the $3.4 million land and building project debt free. A matching grant from the local Callaway Foundation helped make this achievement a reality. The grand opening celebration was held in November 2000. Later in 2001 the campus was expanded to 25.5 acres. In August 2004, we celebrated the grand opening of our new two-story 22,500 sq. ft. expansion designed to house the growing children's and student's ministries.
Average attendance is now well over 700 with a full time staff of 8. From the beginning, however, the founders' goal was not necessarily to become a big church, but to be the church to each other and the community. Through it all, God has changed hundreds of lives for eternity; the local church is the hope of the world.