In an impassioned weekend message to his sizable congregation, Senior Pastor Jim Burgen of Lafayette’s Flatirons Community Church announced plans for two new campuses serving north Longmont-Loveland and the Highlands Ranch-Parker areas.
In a message running more than 53 minutes and titled ” Strategic Maneuvers,” Burgen expressed an urgency to that mission. “We’ve gone and we’ve done a bunch of research. We need to start two campuses, like right away,” said Burgen, sporting a T-shirt featuring the words “me too.”
Urging those who know of a vacant church property, or perhaps a school gymnasium that could be utilized for a kids’ ministry in either of those areas, Burgen urged his congregation members to let church officials know, giving them the name of Executive Pastor Paul Brunner.
In an interview Tuesday, Burgen affirmed the plans he unveiled in his weekly message. “All three of our facilities are pretty much at capacity,” Burgen said. “We have a critical mass of people making long drives from those parts of the city, and it makes it really difficult to get more involved in the life of the church and the life of the community, because of distance.”
In addition to its flagship campus on South Boulder Road in Lafayette, Flatirons also has facilities in Genesee and its most recent addition, a vacant Denver church purchased at 2700 S. Downing St., for about $1.2 million, after Flatirons’ lease at Denver’s Paramount Theater ran out.
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