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.
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History
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.
In an event called CPR Saturday, American Red Cross volunteers gave cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) lessons for free at Bayside, where completion of the program granted an American Red Cross CPR year-long certification. Nearly 500 people were expected to attend.
Between April and May 2010, the church hosted an exhibit including portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were obtained by Azusa Pacific University in 2009, as well as historical Bibles and other Christian works.
Bayside hosted over one thousand worship leaders, musicians, songwriters, pastors, technicians, and artists at the Thriving Musician Summit in mid-September 2010. The church featured artists Matt Redman, Paul Baloche, Lincoln Brewster, and Phil Keaggy.
Bayside hosts an annual Thrive Leadership Conference every year where 3,000 pastors and church leaders from many cities come to worship, hear from speakers and be inspired by Bayside volunteers.
Bayside rented the Power Balance Pavilion during the Easter of 2011, attracting a crowd of 17,000 people.
Bayside collaborated with local businesses, to raise money for the relief effort involved with alleviating the devastation caused by the 2011 T?hoku earthquake and tsunami.
Programs
Bayside has a ministry that caters to special-needs children.
Every year, Bayside hosts a several week-long festival for children called Breakaway. The day camp's activities, which include water games and arts and crafts, attracts around 4,000 children annually.
At the Granite Bay campus, Bayside's junior high youth group is called Unleashed; Unleashed meets only twice on Sunday mornings. The grades include seventh and eighth grade. It also has some sixth graders visiting as well.
Bayside's senior high youth group is called The Bridge at the Granite Bay campus, which meets on Wednesday nights and on Sunday mornings, where it is called "The AM". Bayside's Outreach organizes trip to impoverished areas of the Mexicali region of Baja California every year during Spring Break on a mission trip. On the 2014 trip, 1,200 teenagers and adults were involved. The team recorded a YouTube video of the trip called "Mexico 2014 (We're Going Down)".
Every month, Bayside sends twenty volunteers to have a picnic at the Serna Village, an apartment complex that supports dozens of otherwise-homeless families.
Bayside Church has a Career Coaching ministry which has helped 1,300 people find jobs in Roseville and Sacramento areas. Bayside has an "Adventure Sports" Ministry - an opportunity for church members to participate in sports from biking and hiking to camping, fishing and hunting.
Bayside has a ministry called Bayside Adventure Sports that uses Adventure Sports to build stronger Faith, Relationships and Bodies. It was launched in 1998 and is a separate California 501c3 for Liability Insurance reasons. There are 20+ sports with over 3,000 people participating in over 400 events every year from easy mountain bike rides to International Expeditions to places like Machu Picchu and Kilimanjaro. The motto is "God Created the Earth...Ride it. Climb it. Catch it. Explore it. Protect it". The website for it is www.BaysideAdventureSports.com.
Bayside hosts local Compassion projects, including a garage sale, church members collected their clothes and furniture and the material was sold to thousands of local buyers. All proceeds from the sale were donated to a dozen local ministries.
Bayside's Global Outreach Ministries sends a 100 church members every year to Cambodia, Colombia, India, Kenya and Nigeria to feed the hungry, fight to stop sex-trafficking of teen girls in Cambodia and provide education to end HIV/AIDS in Kenya.
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