Our History

Grace Community Presbyterian Church had its first worship service on January 2nd, 2005, which was held in a strip mall located on Highway 377 in Watauga, TX. This church actually began in the hearts and minds of a group of people years before as they began meeting in a home in north Ft. Worth. Because of their love for the doctrines of grace and their perseverance and God’s good providence, Grace Community Presbyterian Church now exists.

Grace Community Presbyterian Church began as a church plant of Ft. Worth Presbyterian Church. It was the Session and pastoral staff of Ft. Worth Presbyterian Church that provided support, encouragement and oversight of this new church through August of 2006. This relationship was officially recognized at the installation service the evening of February 13th, 2005 at Grace Community Presbyterian Church, which was meeting at Premier Academy, a Christian Day School located in north Ft. Worth.

Our first year together, 2005, brought much change. Our attendance doubled, we purchased 6 acres in north Ft. Worth, we raised 80% of the money needed to begin our first phase building project and we hired an architect and moved forward with our plans.

God continued to grow us in 2006. We nominated men for leadership in June of that year, elected them in August and were organized as a particular church of the Presbyterian Church of America on August 13th, 2006, at a service of Organization and Particularization held at Bette Perot Elementary School located in north Ft. Worth. (Please see Our Leaders page to learn more about the elders and deacons God brought to Grace Community Presbyterian Church to help lead us.)

Our church was able to hire the gifted Barbara Haun as our Music Director and Ministry Assistant in 2007.

In the early part of 2008 our church called Tom Browning as our assistant pastor.

After a year of training and the prayerful consideration of the members of Grace Community Presbyterian Church, 3 new ruling elders and four new deacons were ordained and installed in early 2010. As our body, staff and leadership grew, Grace Community Presbyterian Church also started construction on their new building in August of 2006. We had our first worship service in our new building on September 30, 2007. By God's grace and through the generosity of His people, we were able to pay off the note of our building in December of 2009.

As this church has continued to experience God's blessings in amazing ways, she began a building expansion project in the last quarter of 2011. When completed (expected in Fall 2012) GCPC will have more than doubled her square footage. In addition to many new classrooms, we are adding an office suite and a glorious and large worship space able to seat about 400. It is our conviction that this would be as large as we would want our congregation to grow, so that we can continue to minister faithfully to one another. If we grow in numbers beyond what our new worship space and building can hold, our hope is to plant one or more daughter churches in surrounding areas.

Please be in prayer about how God will use our church for generations to come in the community where He has placed us.

We realize that the history recounted here is another way of retelling the story He is writing. If you are so inclined, please pray for this church as we seek to be faithful to God in the place where He has placed us.