Calvary Church to Buy New Building
They started 21 years ago in a Hungry Tiger restaurant in Thousand Oaks. Today, members of the Calvary Community Church of Westlake Village are poised to move to a very large new home.
In a $9-million transaction that its senior pastor calls “a great answer to prayer,” the church next year will move into a 310,000-square-foot building, formerly owned by the Eaton Corp., on a 35-acre site at La Tienda Road and Via Rocas in Westlake Village.
The church has already gathered about $5.3 million in pledges for the purchase. The city of Thousand Oaks is buying a 20-acre church-owned property near the interchange of the Ventura and Moorpark freeways, and church officials are counting on more cash from that sale, which is in escrow.
The new site is large enough to contain a coffeehouse and a community theater, in addition to a 2,000-seat auditorium, a wedding chapel, numerous classrooms and offices. And large enough to finally end the church’s problem of having to turn people away from its community events.
For the 5,000-member church, this move portends continued growth.
Calvary plans to move into the facility in mid-1998.
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