Elk Community Church Receives a Much-Needed Facelift

If you’ve driven through downtown Elk recently, you’ve probably noticed that Elk Community Church is getting a long overdue facelift. The old asbestos-laced siding has been removed and replaced with LP Lap Siding. The sagging roof has been shored up with a new deck and covered with Snaplock Standing Seam metal roofing. The church family is especially grateful for these improvements and for local contractor Matt West of Top to Bottom Handyman for taking on the project.

While the building is still a work in progress, these exterior upgrades—along with interior remodels completed in recent years—help ensure that this familiar structure will remain a fixture in our community for years to come. But as important as the building is, what truly matters is the church that gathers inside: men and women who worship the risen Christ and build one another up as they seek to follow Him.

You see, the building is just that—a building. It may hold historical significance, stir nostalgia for those who attended as children, or remind us of the “good old days” when the church was at the center of community life. Those are meaningful things, but Scripture reminds us that the true church is not made of wood and stone. As the Apostle Peter writes, God is constructing a spiritual house made up of “living stones”—people who have been reconciled to Him through Christ (1 Peter 2:5).

That is why Elk Community Church’s greatest hope is not merely that the building will stand for generations, but that God Himself will build a faithful body of believers here in Elk that lasts even longer than these walls. As Psalm 127:1 reminds us, “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.”

Who knows? Perhaps one day a larger building will even be needed to house the growing congregation. But whatever the future holds, our prayer is that God would be pleased to build His church here in Elk for generations to come.

If you’d like to learn more about Elk Community Church, stay tuned for more articles in the weeks ahead—or stop by on Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m. Our congregation is currently studying Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, and all are welcome to join us.