Facility Expansion
After years of prayer and seeking, God has generously provided us with the opportunity to expand our church facilities while remaining on our existing site.
We're combining two adjacent properties — 7 Waverley St and 6 Harold St — into one site consisting of a worship sanctuary seating 450-500 people, an enlarged foyer, a kitchen and servery, and three children's ministry spaces holding up to 122 kids.
The Plan
● Sanctuary — a sacred and reverent space with a mezzanine and courtyard, suitable for worship gatherings, weddings, and funerals.
● Foyer — a place of welcome, connection, and hospitality, able to host courses like Alpha and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship.
● Children's Ministry Rooms (3) — extension with mezzanine and partitioning for flexible use.
Why it Matters
● To make room for more people to encounter Jesus — young and old. We have been beyond capacity for around three years.
● To have somewhere we can serve and be a presence in our city all week - community meals (Kai on Colombo), local outreach, prayer and counseling space, etc.
● To make room for our growing church whānau — a place for more people to belong.
● To serve our calling to be a Resource Church — providing suitable spaces for raising pastors, leaders, and church planters, and to host network, citywide, and denominational gatherings.
● A church home we can steward for generations still to come.
The Cost
The total project cost is $4,200,000.
Through the generosity of God’s people, we’ve already seen $1,700,000 given and committed. We have the ability to borrow $1,500,000 in the form of a mortgage.
Remaining gap to raise = $1,000,000
The Goal:
Raise the remaining $1,000,000 within the next 3 months — ideally before Christmas 2026.
This timeframe is so we can lodge the consent application in December. If we don’t hit this target, we will have to consider scaling back the extension and mezzanine in the Children’s Ministry spaces. This would reduce costs by ~$600,000 but would also reduce our CM capacity from 122 to 66 children.
Imagine if we managed to raise the full $2,500,000 and didn’t need to take the loan?!
What We’re Asking
Please ask God how much you should contribute, and prayerfully consider:
A one-off gift by 31 December 2026
An ongoing gift for 3 years until December 2029 (pledges in addition to regular tithes and offerings).
Please complete this short online form telling us your intentions:
Donations can be made directly to:
The Well Property Trust
38-9017-0152925-00
NZ Charity: CC52236
Giving generously towards building the house of God is what God's people have always done — throughout Scripture and throughout human history. We have been recipients of the faithfulness of previous generations; now it’s our turn.
Three simple postures
● PRAY — ask God how you should respond.
● TRUST GOD — take a faith step.
● PRACTISE GENEROSITY — give as God leads.
Thank You
To everyone who has already given or pledged: Thank You!
We are so grateful for your belief in this and your support — we couldn't do this without you.
It's beautiful to see the people of God coming together and doing what they can to support this project. We’ve seen gifts ranging from $10/week to one-off gifts of $100,000 and more. Our team of engineers and consultants (almost all from our own church) partnering with us commercially: some at usual rates, some at a 10% or 50% discount, and some pro bono. Thank you.
We’d love for everyone who calls The Well their home church to be part of this collective effort and journey together — will you prayerfully consider how God might have you give?
Frequently
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We hope to stay onsite for as long as possible. The 6 Harold St construction can be undertaken and, practically, completed while we continue meeting in 7 Waverley St. That said, yes, we do anticipate a period of time (unsure how long) when we will have to be offsite.
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No, we would fill the space in one gathering, meaning we wouldn’t have space to grow. So we plan to continue in two worship gatherings, 9am and 11am, giving plenty of space for us to grow. We do hope to meet in one gathering for the period of time we are offsite during construction.
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We’ll have the same number of car parks as we currently have. We are not required to have any more for consent reasons, though we appreciate it would be nice for practical reasons. There are ample street parking spaces available on weekends, and with the stronger connection via Harold St, we anticipate this will help spread the parking load across both sides of our site - Colombo St and Buchan St.
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The availability of suitable ministry spaces is really limited in our location - mostly surrounded by light industrial - requiring significant compromises without serious fit-out investment, and we remain at the mercy of landlords.
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We will have to consider scaling back the extension and mezzanine in the Children’s Ministry spaces. This would reduce costs by ~$600,000 but would also reduce our CM capacity from 122 to 66 children.
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We hope to submit consent applications in December, so we want to have confidence we have the funds needed for the project to go ahead.
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No — this is for anyone and everyone... but especially for those who call The Well Church home. The invitation is proportional: give what you can. What matters is the heart behind it, not the amount (Luke 21:1–4).
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That’s OK - we’re not asking anyone to do something they cannot. A one-off gift alone is a full and valid response; the two-part ask is an invitation, not a requirement. If 3-years feels too long, that’s OK too; simply indicate what you can commit to.