Thriving Church Buys Green Hills Property, Plans Expansion

NASHVILLE, TN — Midtown Fellowship, a rapidly-growing multi-campus congregation, paid $2.5 million for the former home of First United Church on Granny White Pike near Noelton Avenue. The church, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, plans to add a 12,000-square-foot, 400-seat sanctuary approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals earlier this year.

Currently, the congregation meets in rented space in nearby 12South, plus Creive Hall, East Nashville and at Rockettown near downtown; this will be the first property it owns outright. (For more updates on this story and free news alerts for your neighborhood, sign up for your local Middle Tennessee Patch morning newsletter.)

Midtown Fellowship was founded in 2002. It plans to mount a fundraising effort to build the new structure, senior pastor Randy Draughon told The Tennessean.

"I’m sure it will take us much longer to raise the funds to build the new addition," he said. "The church is excited and are very thankful for the previous congregation and their faithfulness to Nashville for over the past 120 years. It really is a beautiful thing that a young congregation can build on such a legacy of faith."

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