Sunshine Coast Life Church pastors ask worshippers to pray for The Sanctuary development application at Mons

A Coast church wants its worshippers to pray no objections arise to its proposed new hub as it instructs them how to best support the project.

An aerial view shows the site where Life Church wants to build a new church on Tanawha Tourist Drive at Mons.

A Coast church wants its worshippers to pray no objections arise to its proposed new hub as it instructs them how to best support the project.

Life Church, currently based at Warana, has applied to Sunshine Coast Council to build a 4000sq m complex across two Mons blocks it bought for more than $3.2m.

It will include an auditorium capable of seating 790 people.

An email sent by church leaders last week asked recipients to send submissions supporting the project to Sunshine Coast Council before the April 28 cut off.

Life Church lead pastor Rick Emmerson and senior pastor Ashley Goode hope to prove themselves as good neighbours should their development proposal at Mons be approved.

It was signed off by senior pastors Ashley and Alison Goode and lead pastors Ricky and Nina Emmerson.

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It gave a list of ideas for support letters which focused on community interest, need for the development, site suitability and the project's design.

"At the moment, we need you to be praying earnestly as we are in the public notification period for the development approval for the Sanctuary," the email reads.

"This process is for any objections that arise from the public.

"We need you to pray with us that this is not the case."

Architectural drawings show Life Church's proposed new church which it wants to build on a Tanawha Tourist Drive property at Mons.

The email said it would "be very helpful" to the development application process "if we all wrote a letter to the council in support of the project".

It said alternatively, recipients could write an email stating "I am aware of the project and I am in support of this development at Forest Glen sanctuary".

The church acknowledged the proposal conflicted with zoning for the area when it lodged the application in December last year.

A section of its land is rural residential, which conflicts with the proposed place of worship use.

But the council wrote to the church on January 13 saying there were a number of inconsistencies with the planning scheme which were not addressed in the initial application.

"Information critical to the assessment of the application has not been provided to demonstrate that there are sufficient other relevant matters to warrant approval," the council letter reads.

"There are also a number of proposed development outcomes that do not adequately address the requirements of the relevant assessment benchmarks and cannot be managed through conditions."

Architectural drawings show Life Church's proposed new church which it wants to build on a Tanawha Tourist Drive property at Mons.

It highlighted 18 assessment areas on which it needed more information including the zoning conflict, site suitability, need for the development, building height, stormwater management and acoustic impacts.

The church wrote back through its town planners last month with an 18-page cover letter and 15 other documents to address the information request.

Its project then went to the public consultation phase on April 6. 

Life Church was contacted for comment but a representative said the pastors were away for the week and the office was closed.

Originally published as Sunshine Coast Life Church pastors ask worshippers to pray for The Sanctuary development application at Mons