- April 26, 2024
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Parkview Church Palm Coast is ready to unveil its new 700-seat auditorium building for Easter weekend.
Parkview broke ground on the new auditorium building in the fall of 2022. Parkview Communications Director Cassandra Hartman said the old auditorium has just 400 seats but the church has been averaging 1,500 people over the course of its four weekend services.
They have had to place seats in the lobby for people to watch the service on TVs there, she said.
"It's incredible," Hartman said. "But at the same time, our need for this new building has never been greater.”
Easter falls on the last weekend of March, and Parkview will be hosting five services between March 29 and 31: 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 29; 4 and 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 30; a special sunrise service a 7 a.m. in addition to their regular 9 and 11 a.m. services on Sunday, March 31.
Parkview's Easter Eggstravaganza egg hunt will be on Saturday after each service for kids up to 5th graders. The egg hunt will be held indoors, Hartman said, so will be unaffected by any inclement weather.
Every year, Parkview makes a big deal of the Easter services, she said, but this year is especially exciting because of the auditorium opening. It also launches the next stage of Parkview's construction projects, she said.
The auditorium expansion is the first part of Parkview's Greater Campaign, Hartman said. The next step is four smaller projects on Parkview Palm Coast's campus: installing an indoor playground, adding a large, covered pavilion, expanding the parking on campus and building a seated outdoor patio area.
The construction will hopefully finish in 2024 for all four projects, she said, or early 2025 at the latest.
The expanded parking area is already under construction and will had 86 new spots. The playground area, Hartman said, will be installed in the lobby of the old auditorium area and will feature a cafe for parents.
“It will be kind of like at Chick-fil-A or McDonalds when they used to have indoor playgrounds,” she said.
The old auditorium will also become the home of Parkview's Family Ministries. The patio and pavilion areas will help out for the church's larger events as well.
Hartman said Parkview is very aware it, and Palm Coast in general, has a growing population of younger families, and these changes reflect that.
"We want to make sure that with the growth of Palm Coast that we as a church are keeping up with that in the way that we minister to our people,” she said.
