Fairview at River Club


	Growing Pains Fairview at River Club is a miracle. Fairview Baptist Church was a growing downtown Fredericksburg church feeling the constraints of limited space and parking. The members knew some form of expansion was needed but enlarging the existing building was not an option. The members voted to seek land on which to build a multi-purpose facility or Family Life Center to help meet the needs of an increasing congregation. Two major hurdles existed: finding affordable land on which to build, and the resources needed to even begin such a project. But God was just getting started.
	The Miracle Unfolds Rev. Bob Sizemore prophetically announced to the congregation that if God wanted this expansion to become a reality that someone would actually donate the land. Fairview began to pray that God would lay this need on someone’s heart to donate land for this purpose. The church’s prayers were answered when Tricord Companies donated five acres in the River Club area just south of Fredericksburg. Along with Tricord’s gift came the stipulation that Sunday Services must be held on the site. Fairview was now looking at becoming a dual-site church, and not just constructing a multi-purpose facility to serve their own needs. Now faced with the reality of huge construction costs, the project was almost out of reach, but God was just getting started. Lucy Hearn, a former Fredericksburg resident and church member, left half of her multi-million dollar estate to Fairview Baptist Church. But nobody could remember Lucy Hearn. A legal secretary from Baltimore, she gave her gift to a church she had not attended in more than 70 years. “We were shocked” Sizemore told the Free Lance Star in August 2003. God is still in the miracle business.
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