Our Story

The planning for One Life Church planting started getting aggressive in 2010 with a team from Bethel Temple Community Church in Evansville, Indiana and Henderson, Kentucky who launched the new church planting organization called One Life Network, Inc.. After months of prayer and preparation, the first church site was secured and renovated in Henderson at an old Ben Franklin Store in Eastgate Shopping center at 1644 Second Street. After many hours of volunteer construction teams transforming the old building into a church with an auditorium, lobby, nursery/preschool rooms and a kid’s theatre…opening day was 10/10/10.

As with any new church plant opening day was anticipated with excitement, but appropriate caution as to how the community would accept and respond to a new church in town. The results were extraordinary. This modest venue of 500 seats was filled to overflowing with over 1000 adults and kids that were responding to the vision of a young church seeking to “help people far from God experience Jesus”.

But as the Henderson site added a second service and eventually a third service to accommodate the people coming in the doors, the core team at One Life Church always stayed connected to the idea of planting churches that plant churches.

In August of 2011, One Life Church merged with a young church plant on the West side of Evansville, Indiana meeting in a movie theatre called Discovery Church. Discovery closed their doors with the idea of a relaunch on Evansville’s west side as soon a new permanent building could be secured and renovated.

After a lengthy search, One Life West was launched at 1301 West Lloyd Expressway on 8/19/2012 in the offices and warehouse of the old Sterling Brewery. Once again volunteers spent several months renovating and preparing this facility with a 500 seat auditorium, new lobby, nursery/preschool rooms and they used the old Rathskeller as a Kids Theatre on the lower level of this unique building.