Two churches (Lutheran and Moravian) merged to form Common Grace Church. With assistance from the Good Futures Accelerator they launched the Eastmorland Community Center as a way of expanding their mission and ministry with their neighborhood. But they outgrew their space and their aging church building needed extensive and expensive repair. So Threshold Sacred Development and Threshold Builds is helping the church replace their aging building with a new, more flexible, community center that will serve the neighborhood much more effectively. Twenty-six units of workforce housing is being added to the site, meeting a vital need for more affordable housing in Madison. This project is being financed with an impact investment from a foundation connected to a third, different denomination. Their catalytic financing unlocked the potential for impact on this site and made the project possible.

They tell their story in this beautiful film by Big Dog Little Bed productions. This film was created for the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program which is conducted by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity and funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.