Church Highlight: Grace Community Church – Tyler, TX

Grace Community Church is a multi-site, non-denominational church in Tyler, Texas. Grace Community is about being and making disciples of Jesus Christ. And at Grace, they are focused on authentic faith while not being too concerned with the externals of religion. This means they act the same way on Monday as they do on Sunday. They desire to be wholeheartedly committed to the Worship of God, fully engaged in the Mission of the Gospel, and intimately connected to the Community of Believers.

Grace Community Church was born out of the desire of a few families to passionately learn and apply the Bible to everyday life. A staircase in the home of Bill and Rickey Fisher served as pews for children on Sunday mornings in 1964, the year Evangelical Methodist Church of Tyler (now Grace Community) was formed.

As time passed, Grace moved from a home to the YMCA and eventually to what is now our Old Jacksonville Campus. In 1973, the church began a christian school which was dedicated to expanding the Kingdom of God through educating and equipping children. One year later, the Evangelical Methodist Church officially changed its name to Grace Community of Tyler. And by 1984, the large Auditorium on Old Jacksonville Road was completed.

In 2001, Grace pursued a multi-site model that led to a campus meeting at Grace Community High school on University Blvd.

In 2004, there was a realization that numerous people who lived north of I-20 were attending our Old Jacksonville campus.  Since eleven small groups met north of I-20, they began to have discussions, and those groups formed the nucleus of what has now become their Lindale campus. For quite some time, they met in the E.J. Moss auditorium before moving into the current funeral home. They began construction in spring of 2008 on a new campus for Lindale.

Seeing a growing need for a Gospel-centered, Spanish-speaking church, Grace began making preparations in 2013 to launch a 4th campus.  In January of 2015, Grace Community launched Grace Español.

Please join us this week as we celebrate and lift up our friends at Grace Community Church in prayer! We are excited about all God is doing and will continue to do in and through them!

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