• About Us
• What to Expect
• Our Staff
• Our History
• Our Future
• What We Believe

OUR HISTORY 

Bear Creek Community Church started as a dream and a vision that God gave Pastor Bill & Dotti Cummins. After surveying the community, it became apparent that a new church was needed in North Stockton/Lodi; a church that could reach the non-churched ‘Stockton Joe & Stockton Joyce’, as we fictitiously called them. We therefore, began a telemarketing and direct mail campaign to identify people who were not connected to a local church. After much prayer and a deep sense of God’s call, we held our first service at Delta Sierra Middle School on April 9, 1989.

In 1992 the church moved to larger facilities at the brand new Bear Creek High School. We also purchased 7 acres of prime real estate on Lower Sacramento Rod just north of Eight Mile road. Two years later, God ‘gave’ us three more acres of land adjacent to our property.

On February 14, 1999, we experienced the excitement of moving to our own ‘promised land’ as we held our first service in the ‘Tent’. It was a wonderful moment in our history as we planted our feet firmly upon the ground that God had prepared for us. This was ‘holy ground’ to us. It was to become our permanent home and our future. We prayerfully dedicated it and committed it to the Lord.

Where we are

On February 25, 2007, we celebrated the Grand Opening of our spacious 20,000 sq. ft. Worship Center designed to help us touch the lives of more men, women, children and young people throughout our community with the love of Christ. Pastor Bill continues to lead with encouraging and Biblically based teaching.

Where we are going

We are now in the exciting visionary stage of planning for two special facilities:

        a 14,000 sq. ft. kindergarten thru 6th grade Children’s Education
           Building that will include classrooms, a gymnasium and offices.

        a World Prayer Center that will house our 24 hour Prayer Ministry, a
           small chapel, offices and prayer rooms with the latest updates on
           world events and areas that are in need of prayer.

Our future looks bright as we anticipate the opportunities these two facilities would give us to reach out and touch the lives of those in our community and world.

The most exciting part of our history is that hundreds of people have gotten connected to Jesus; and hundreds of others of have experienced the healing, help, hope and caring that comes from being part of our church family.

Bear Creek Church has a deep commitment to Christ and His Word, a love for people, and an unusual ability to warmly welcome, teach and evangelize in a relational way.