Open Arms Church purchases balance of LCU Campus

 

[March 04, 2024] 

Lincoln Christian University is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached to sell the remaining portions of the campus to Open Arms Christian Fellowship for $800,000. This includes Restoration Hall, the Administration Building, the Warehouse, Harmony Hall, Henderson Hall, and 16 acres of green-space along Route 10 between Chapel View Drive and the former student apartments. This is in addition to the other portions of campus that the church purchased in February 2023: the Chapel, Laughlin Center, athletic fields, Ruth Hall, Titus Hall, and Alumni Hall.

“This campus, raised from a cornfield, has quite appropriately birthed thousands of harvest workers over the more than 60 years it has been here,” says President Silas McCormick. “In contemplating what would happen to this holy ground after we cease academic operations in May, there was no question that what was most important was that it continue to be used to make disciples if at all possible.”

Speaking of Open Arms, McCormick adds, “They’ve been a wonderful partner and neighbor—particularly these last four challenging years. And since our sale of the eastern and southern portions of the campus to them last year, they have grown. Though I grieve what is lost, that grief is certainly not without hope, and I look forward to what may yet be.”

[Lincoln Christian University]