Serving God
Emanuel Lisk Center
Project Plan
After nearly 20 years, the Friendship Baptist Church of Kansas City, Missouri is poised to make real our vision of a state-of-the-art space dedicated to Christian education for children and youth. The new one story, 7,750-square foot Emanuel Lisk Center for Youth Development will be designed to blend seamlessly with the brick exterior of our existing church.
Key Features
- Eight new classrooms, one for kindergarteners, two rooms for primary students that feature a movable partition wall, and two junior-high, one senior-high, and two general-use classrooms for workshops, conferences and other special events
- Three Restrooms, all handicap accessible, with appropriate amenities for men, women and toddlers
- A 125-seat multimedia-enabled chapel featuring enhanced acoustics for smaller worship services, weddings, and community events, and movable partition walls to further divide the space for breakout sessions and other small-scale meeting needs
Emanuel Lisk Center for Youth Development, floor plan, Spring 2023.
The center will be readily accessible to the existing building through an enclosed hallway. The architect of record, Mantel Teter and general contractor, Kelly Construction Group continue to partner with the FBC Emanuel Lisk Project Committee to ensure the final product will meet the needs of Friendship’s vibrant congregation today and well into the future.
The Emanuel Lisk Center is slated to open in the spring of 2026.
