Bayside Church (Sacramento region)

Bayside Church, formally known as Bayside Covenant Church, is a family of churches and venues centered on its primary campus in Granite Bay, California United States, which is referred to as the Granite Bay campus. The church is led by Senior Pastor Ray Johnston, Senior Pastor Curt Harlow and Senior Pastor Andrew McCourt, and Senior Pastor Lincoln Brewster. John Jackson, the former executive pastor at Bayside, became the president of William Jessup University on March 23, 2011. Bayside is one of the largest churches in the Sacramento metropolitan area. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Led by Senior Pastor Ted Smith, First Covenant Church of Sacramento planted Bayside Church in 1995, and Ray Johnston was the founding pastor of Bayside. In 2015, First Covenant Church of Sacramento was renamed River City Christian.

Every season, Bayside Church change their message, which currently is "Born for This: Finding Joy in The Journey." and "The Jesus Project" which started in April 2016.

Bayside traces its informal beginnings to 1994, following the suicides of a few local teenagers. Worried that the community didn’t have resources available to serve troubled youth, a group of parents joined together to pray for help. The group soon increased to 164 people and moved to the Granite Bay Tennis Club. An elementary school and high school also housed parishioners before Bayside Church built a permanent facility on 34.6 acres of land on Sierra College Boulevard in 2004.

As of spring 2015, attendance has grown to over 14,000, with eight church services every weekend at the Granite Bay campus, a Sunday service at both the Folsom and Blue Oaks campuses, and three Sunday services at the Midtown Sacramento campus (formerly The House Christian Church) – each Bayside campus has its own pastor and worship team.

Other churches in the Sacramento region that have the Bayside name and are loosely affiliated with Bayside as the "Bayside Family of Churches" include: Bayside of Woodland, Bayside of Galt, Bayside Church of Citrus Heights, Bayside of South Sacramento (BOSS), Bayside in Galt, Bayside Church of Placerville, Bayside Plumas Lake, and Bayside Life Church in Rancho Cordova.

Sherwood Carthen, founding pastor of Bayside of South Sacramento (January 1, 2005) and chaplain of the Sacramento Kings, died suddenly on September 25, 2013.

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