Spotlight Church: Lifechurch.tv

History of LifeChurch.tv
In January of 1996, Life Church began with nothing more than a vision from God and a handful of people. The time was right for a new kind of church - a church that did things differently. The mission of Life Church was clear from the beginning: to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ.

The first Life Church worship experience took place in a rented dance studio in Edmond, Oklahoma. Within just a few short weeks, the church grew in attendance to over 130 people and began to meet in a local middle school. It was not long before Life Church had to once again move to accommodate its rapid growth.this time the move was to a bicycle factory.

By 1997, Life Church was averaging 200 people each week in attendance. Life continued its steady growth pattern and completed a 750 seat worship center in the spring of 1999. By that time, Life Church had grown to over 1250 in weekly attendance and had three worship experiences each weekend. With the
additional space the new facility provided, Life continued to grow and was reaching over 3000 people by the end of 2000. Today, this location serves as the home for the LifeChurch.tv Oklahoma City, OK Campus.

In January of 2001, MetroChurch joined the Life Church family and
officially became the LifeChurch.tv Edmond, OK Campus. MetroChurch was a 25-year-old, nondenominational church that averaged close to 1000 people in attendance each week. Through the process, Life Church not only grew in numbers, but also in facilities. Life Church officially became "One Church with
Multiple Locations". By the end of the year, Life Church was serving over 5500 people in seven worship experiences between two different campuses.

Tulsa Campus Now Open
On Easter Sunday in 2002, the LifeChurch.tv Tulsa, OK Campus officially opened its doors in a hotel ballroom. The campus quickly outgrew this location and by September, began to meet each week in a local high school.

LifeChurch.tv Stillwater, the fourth LifeChurch.tv campus, was launched in September 2003. On Christmas Eve, history was made as LifeChurch.tv held the first live simulcast between the Edmond and Oklahoma City campuses. By year end, over 9000 people worshipped at one of twelve LifeChurch.tv experiences available each weekend on four campuses.

The year 2004 was off to a running start with the addition of three new worship experiences, allowing LifeChurch.tv to reach over 12,000 people through sixteen weekly worship experiences on four different campuses. In August, a satellite uplink was built at the Oklahoma City campus, providing the ability for LifeChurch.tv to send live video feed anywhere in the world.

The LifeChurch.tv Tulsa Campus moved into location in October. The fifth LifeChurch.tv campus, LifeChurch.tv South Oklahoma City, OK, opened in March of 2005. In September, LifeChurch.tv once again made history as it opened its first campus outside of the state of Oklahoma in Mesa, AZ, called LifeChurch.tv Mesa. By year end, LifeChurch.tv was reaching over 14,000 people each week through 29 worship experiences.

In early 2006, a church in Fort Worth, Texas, The Church at City View, became a part of LifeChurch.tv and is now known as the LifeChurch.tv Fort Worth, TX Campus. In April, two monumental initiatives took place: the launch of the LifeChurch.tv Internet Campus, which provided live church online for people around the world with the ability for genuine community, engaging volunteer opportunities, online LifeGroups and even mission opportunities on the Internet, and the launch of LifeChurch.tv Open, a tool that gives ministries everywhere the ability to download creative content, messages and resources completely free of charge, no strings attached. In July, LifeChurch.tv once again joined forces with another ministry, Church Unplugged, and added its ninth campus, the LifeChurch.tv Hendersonville, TN Campus. At the end of 2006, LifeChurch.tv was averaging 18,000 people each weekend at a total of 40 worship experiences.

The year 2007 is off to an exciting start. LifeChurch.tv's tenth campus was launched in February when a church in Wellington, FL (in the West Palm Beach area) decided to become a part of LifeChurch.tv. This campus is now known as LifeChurch.tv Wellington. On April 1, the doors to the LifeChurch.tv NW Oklahoma City, OK Campus were opened. Also in April, LifeChurch.tv launched its fully interactive campus in Second Life, the popular 3-D online virtual world. In April, three major events took place: the doors to the LifeChurch.tv NW Oklahoma City, OK Campus were opened; LifeChurch.tv launched its fully interactive campus in Second Life, the popular 3-D online virtual world; and LifeChurch.tv announced its twelfth campus, LifeChurch.tv Albany, in Albany, NY. Currently LifeChurch.tv is hosting nearly 20,000 people every weekend across all its campuses during 47 worship experiences.

TULSA Campus:
7015 East 41st, on the north side of 41st Street between Sheridan & Memorial. Check out any one of our six worship experiences- Saturdays at 5:30pm or 7pm, or on Sundays at 8:30am, 10am, 11:30am, or 5pm. We'll see you this weekend!