That’s how Bible Center Church Pastor Shawn Thornton envisions the church's future facility, located at Southridge near the new Metro 911 Center.

Thornton and about 1000 other people, including local dignitaries gathered at that site for a groundbreaking ceremony Sunday afternoon.

The President of Prey Construction, Mark Grigsby, says a site development contractor should be in place next week, with the actual building construction beginning in the summer. Worshipers will be welcomed into the new church by November 2007, the end of phase one of the project.

"In phase one, which we have a temporary interim worship space, we'll double the number of people we can have seated and more than double our parking....then phase two and phase three will give us more room for growth and we'll go into a final worship center in phase that will be double the first one we're building, " says Pastor Thornton

About 1000 workers will be a part of the construction project at one point another.

As for the feel of the new church: "The intent was that the building will be comfortable and inviting to the people of West Virginia. It will be something they will identify with," says Architect Jodie Driggs with Silling Associates. "It looks a little more lodge-like than church like to the lay person."

The estimated cost of the first phase of the project: $16 million dollars.