We wanted something that could help visualize the fact that God is doing this through all of us together,” Senior Pastor Jim Alexander told congregants before guiding the plow in dress shoes and a suit. “This is about God’s glory … walking together in one direction, pulling together in one direction.”

Dust flew around 60 members of the Cheyenne Mountain Presbyterian Church as they grabbed a rope and pulled an old plow across a plot of land in the shadow of Cheyenne Mountain.

Shovels would not do for the late Sunday morning groundbreaking of their new church at 4450 Westmeadow Drive.

“We wanted something that could help visualize the fact that God is doing this through all of us together,” Senior Pastor Jim Alexander told congregants before guiding the plow in dress shoes and a suit. “This is about God’s glory … walking together in one direction, pulling together in one direction.”

After years of bouncing from place to place, meeting in schools and renting and sharing buildings with other congregations, Cheyenne Mountain Presbyterian, established in 1996, will have a place to call their own within a year.

The $2.4 million dollar project has been a decade in the making.

The church bought the 6-acre plot of land 10 years ago and paid it off last year. The 140-member congregation raised $230,000 for the land and $440,000 toward the construction of Phase I of the project — a 300-seat church.

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