“First we shape our buildings, then our buildings shape us.”
-Winston Churchill
Be a partner in our story.
According to our beloved Kentucky author, Wendell Berry, trees stand as “horizons” and “sounds” of their place, a type of prayer and song that started as a little seed but lives on long after we “no longer rise in the mornings.”
Trees tell a story far higher and far longer than any of us; and so do our buildings. Our buildings harmonize with our trees in the long story of permanence, beauty, and hope.
Covenant aims to tell a better, more beautiful story to Richmond and Appalachia: the story of a kingdom and a home that we lost but brought to us again by our king.
Our building will allow us to tell this story with more flesh-and-blood, tactile reality with more beauty and goodness. Our building will allow Covenant to tell this story long after we “no longer rise in the mornings.”
Historic photo of the building as a Coca Cola factory
Historic photo of the building as the Richmond Register
Aerial image of the building
Current floor plan of the building
When we started Covenant Community Church in downtown Richmond, we undertook the mission of “A covenant community sharing the gospel of God’s kingdom in Richmond and into Appalachia.”
Richmond
Home of Eastern Kentucky University and receiving 100s of eastern Kentuckians each year as new residents, Richmond stands as the region’s cultural hub. Covenant is, to use Jesus’ words, a tree planted in Richmond, with our faces turned toward the eastern mountains, where the cities, the children, the buildings, the institutions–even the very ground–of Appalachia await the seeds of God’s coming kingdom.