Our Story

Pearl Church began with a vision for a truly worshipping church, grounded in orthodoxy, participatory and honest, that would feed the spiritual hunger of this generation in the Pearl District. In 2001, a group of people started meeting together as a house church. The next year, we began inviting the public to Sunday services at the Paragon Restaurant Gallery Room. When we outgrew the space, we moved to the Ecotrust in 2004. We started, mostly as a church of young people without children, similar in background, age and expectations. We have now become a church of young people without children, parents of young children, empty nesters, weekly growing in diversity and complexity. We are a church that is constantly changing with the seasons of life that our members face. Located in the heart of the city, we dream of being a church that grows old together in authentic community, serves the world around us in meaningful ways, and deepens in her commitment to the Lord.