Recommendations to the Congregation
- Call to PRAYER for A Time to Build
- Prepare a PLEDGE for A Time to Build
- Generously GIVE beyond the tithe for A Time to Build
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Master Plan
Current Campus
Concept Designs
Existing Campus
Phase 1 Floor Plan and Renderings
1st Floor Layout
Fly-Through Video of Phase 1
May 3rd, 2024 Building Banquet
Mission of Second Presbyterian Church
We are reaching out, folding in, and growing up for the glory of God.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18–20
Vision of Second Presbyterian Church
We aspire to:
· Impact Greenville and the surrounding area for the Gospel.
· Uphold our historic stance towards reverent worship and reformed theology.
· Equip the saints and build the body of Christ.
· Serve Christ in South Carolina, the Presbyterian Church in America, and the world.
A Time to Build
“For everything there is a season, . . . a time to build up” (Eccl. 3:2-3).
In the recent meetings of the Session and Diaconate of Second Presbyterian Church, the leaders of our church unanimously agreed to put a building plan before the congregation with the aim of erecting a new Christian education building on our church campus. This decision culminates years of consideration about the needs of our growing congregation and many months of concentrated effort with the help of architects and a local builder. Accomplishing this goal will require the commitment and sacrificial giving of our whole congregation, along with the faith and prayers that are always needed for God’s work.
The Bible describes occasions where God’s people encountered the need to band together in order to build up the church. In each instance, the spiritual leaders identified and presented a need to the congregation and appealed to their generosity. For years, our leaders have been aware that our meeting space is not adequate for the ministries of our church. We have long been short of rooms for Sunday Schools and other small group ministries. We now face a dire need for an expanded nursery as well. The building proposed in these pages outlines how a new Christian education building will provide for these needs and resource a variety of gatherings for our congregation.
In my view, our church also has the need to resource a vision for our church for the coming generation. Because of God’s goodness to us, we are a biblically faithful, gospel-centered, conservative Reformed church one block from Main Street in one of the fastest growing cities in America. We therefore are stewards not only of the present but also of the future for a strong Christian witness and influence here in Greenville’s West End. Apartment building and condominiums rise in every direction around us. What is most important is that we remain a beacon for bold and faithful preaching, God-honoring worship, and vibrant spiritual life – but all of these blessings will require an expanded facility. Our hope and prayer is that the vision and sacrifice that we show now will bear fruit in the lives of many people in future years who come to know Jesus Christ and grow in their faith.
God’s Word shows that when faithful leaders present a clear need to God’s people, their generous and zealous response enables great achievements to come to pass. We know that this building plan is ambitious and we cannot tell you where all of the needed money is going to come from. But we believe that we should endeavor together to build for the sake of Christ and his gospel and we prayerfully commit ourselves to the Lord to make possible what may at first seem more than we can accomplish. I look forward to our May 3 banquet where this building plan will be fully presented, to many conversations in the weeks and months that follow, and to God’s gracious provision that will enable us to do “far more abundantly than all that we ask or imagine, according to the power at work in us” (Eph. 3:20), so that His glory may be greatly magnified.
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Phillips
History
A Reformed Church in the Heart of Greenville, South Carolina
On a cold winter Greenville night, March 17 1892, members from First Presbyterian Church who lived beyond the Reedy River gathered to discuss the urgent spiritual needs of downtown people in Otis Prentiss Mills’ building on South Main Street & Augusta.
As our name indicates we are the Second Presbyterian Church in the city of Greenville, South Carolina, we have sought to be biblically faithful from our historic home in Greenville’s West End District.
We love the Bible. We are unashamedly committed to the Bible, believing the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be inerrant and infallible and our only rule for faith and practice.
We are Confessional by affirming the great truths of the Protestant Reformation. Our officers affirm the theology of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms as the best understanding of Holy Scripture.
We are Presbyterian, being governed by elders according to the New Testament example. We are also a founding congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America, the largest Bible-believing Presbyterian denomination in the English-speaking world.
We delight in knowing God through the “ordinary means of grace” consisting of preaching, the sacraments and prayer – these being the principle ways God blesses His people through his church by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We love to worship God by gathering each Sunday to actively participate in services that are regulated by the Word and which are full of the best songs of praise from two millennia of Christendom. Our corporate worship is about the edified mind and the reverent heart celebrating God’s sovereign grace in life’s joy and sorrow. Our church is committed to expository preaching and we love to begin and end each Lord’s Day together with the Household of Faith.
We are passionate about the Great Commission as we share our faith through evangelism and missions, supporting over 40 missionary families, including several that have gone forth from our congregation. We also participate and generously support a variety of institutions involved in local missions and gospel endeavor and we actively network in planting Reformed churches in the PCA and throughout the world.
We are a family, 750 souls committed to the biblical principle of the communion of the saints. As such we are intentionally seek to foster genuine community through Christian love, service and fellowship.
