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[edit] Ann Arbor Building Project

From 2002 through 2007, New Life Church received much media attention for its building project at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. According to the Michigan Daily, New Life moved into its new building and had its first service on February 11, 2007.[1] New Life purchased an abandoned Delta Zeta sorority house in 2002. GCM had approved the building project in 1999 and had helped New Life raise funds for the $2.3 million dollar project. The first site plan developed by New Life was rejected by the Ann Arbor Planning Commission in mid-2004, prompting them to file a federal lawsuit under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. In April, 2005, a settlement was signed after three months of negotiations between the two parties. [2][3][4]

[edit] Hurricane Katrina Relief

Several GCM churches sent teams to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurrican Katrina. H20, a GCM church in Bowling Green, OH sent three of its staff immediately to New Orleans, where they found three families, bought a minivan, drove them back to Ohio, and took care of them for several months. [5]