Allison Park Church finds new home in Butler
BUTLER TWP — After years of operating in the area, Allison Park Church’s Butler Campus has found its forever home in Lyndora.
The building, located at 10 Austin Ave. and formerly known as the Tanglewood Center, is now the home of the church’s Butler location. The church previously operated out of Clearview Mall in Center Township, but its leaders wanted to expand further.
“We decided we needed more space because the mall just wasn’t big enough for us anymore. So we bought this space, and we bought the entire building,” Butler Campus pastor Gregg Jacobs said.
The building was purchased in November 2025 for about $600,000, and its first service in the location was held on Christmas Eve. Renovation efforts have been ongoing since the building was bought.
To celebrate the work thus far, campus staff hosted a grand opening Sunday morning, March 22. The church’s two Sunday services at 9:30 and 11:15 a.m. were given a special sermon about the opening and a few additional surprises.
Before the service began, a group of musicians played worship songs for members of the congregation to sing along to. After the service, attendees were treated to soft pretzels and the opportunity to explore the new facility.
During his sermon, Jacobs welcomed everyone to the new building and told them a little about the work that the church has done to ready the location over the last months.
“We have put so many gallons of paint on walls. We have been scrubbing floors. We have been doing all kinds of things to get it ready, so thank you so much ... for making this happen,” he said.
He said the new location is the next step of a decade-long shared dream between himself and former lead pastor Jeff Leake, who died Feb. 7. He said he pitched the idea of a Butler campus offhandedly in 2016, but Leake immediately wanted to do it.
He said the new building will also serve to expand the campus’ food bank operations, a personal goal he said he’s had since being asked by God in 2024.
“We don’t want to just do transaction moments of giving our food to people. We want to create transformation moments using food where we give out the bread of life that transforms a person’s soul,” Jacobs said.
He said the current food bank serves about 400 to 500 homes a month, but is looking to do double or more in the future.
“Our goal is to serve at least 1,000 homes a month. That’s where we want to eventually get to. To get to 1,000, we need to open up another distribution. We’re exploring what that looks like. Is it going to be evenings? Weekends? We’re not sure yet,” he said.
Jacobs added that people are more than welcome to join Allison Park Church for services or events. The next campus event is the “Wacky Factory Egg Hunt,” an indoor egg hunt, on March 28 and 29. Registration for the egg hunt is required at www.allisonparkchurch.com/events.
“If people are looking for a family, we would love to be their family,” Jacobs said.
