Our Story
How It Started
In 2009, a group of friends began a conversation that would become The Park Community Church. The first meeting was in Scott and Shannon’s living room. They expected a few people. The room was packed. Word had gotten out, and what filled that room wasn’t a program or a pitch — it was a shared hunger for something the early church had and that many of us felt we’d lost: a community that looked less like a weekly meeting and more like a family meal.
Acts 2 was the picture we kept coming back to. People sharing meals, sharing possessions, sharing their lives. Adopted into the family of God, belonging to one another. That’s what we wanted to build. That’s what we’ve been building ever since.
We planted officially in 2010. We committed early to a bi-vocational, debt-free, mobile model — not because it was trendy, but because it kept us free to follow the Holy Spirit into wherever God was calling us next. We met in homes, borrowed spaces, and rented facilities. We grew slowly and on purpose.
What Has Grown
Fifteen years later, we gather Sunday mornings in north central San Antonio, and we live in this city all week long. The calling has stayed the same even as the expression has grown.
In 2017, we received an unexpected gift — a 100-year-old building in San Antonio’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, just north of downtown. After a careful restoration, Beacon House opened as an event and co-working space, and home to a suite of licensed professional counselors, with scholarships available for those who need them. It has been a joy to watch it become a place where people work, gather, and find care.
Around the same time, the 412 Project took shape. Named for Ephesians 4:12, it’s our coaching and back-office ministry for churches and nonprofits across the country — the practical expression of our conviction that faithful churches deserve the same organizational support that large institutions take for granted. What The Park has learned in fifteen years of planting and building, the 412 Project shares with church leaders doing the same work in their own cities.
Where We Are Now
We are a congregation committed to sacrificially following Jesus together in community. We are also a family of ministries — The Park, Beacon House, and the 412 Project — rooted in the same address, the same theology, and the same vision: joining God in the renewal of all things.
We believe the church is a family. We believe God is renewing all things. We believe the people in this city — every neighborhood, every block, every person trying to figure out how to live — are part of that story. And we believe we are called to be present to them, faithfully, over time.
That’s the story. It’s still being written.
