In the mid 1980s, a group of about 30 people crammed into a living room each week and shared a vision of starting a church. They were all members of a Kansas congregation, but meeting as a small group in the Lee's Summit area.

They began to pray and sacrifice as a vision of starting a church in Lee's Summit became more and more real, and Lee's Summit Community Church was born in 1988. God blessed the church for many years as people came to know Christ and the church grew by leaps and bounds. But all through their growth, they remembered their dream of helping start churches in the area.

In the Fall of 2006, the leaders of LSCC felt God was calling them to begin the process of sending out a new church. A small group of about 20 LSCC members began meeting and discussing the plans for a new church. The group persevered as God brought about the leadership, vision, and structure in His own timing. The plans for the new church became finalized in Fall of 2007 and The Avenue was born.

As church planting plans began to grow, so did the vision in LSCC's Executive Pastor Nick Kendall who had been leading the core team for several years. As plans became more and more permanent, Nick's calling to be the lead pastor for the church became clearer. His passion for disciple-making and teaching that Jesus is the way to a transformed life led him and his family to start The Avenue.

At The Avenue, God's placed a unique vision on our hearts as a new church being planted in 2008. We're dealing with a different culture than it was 20 years ago when LSCC was born. We're in the midst of a generation full of people who think they're going to heaven because they're really good people, or people who won't accept just one way of truth.

Getting to the heart of the culture and carrying on LSCC's vision of being a culturally relevant church, The Avenue is here to reach people in real ways, and minister through relationships. We've been called to start this church to show our postmodern generation that Jesus is the truth, and THE AVENUE to God. All of the others lead to destruction.

We're here to live on mission. We are challenged to get out of our houses, cars, cubicles, and pews to get to know the people around us with the intention of rubbing a little Jesus off on them.