City Bible Church history

Our journey started all the way back in 1951, with a mere 13 people gathered around a pot-bellied stove on a cold winter morning.

In the fall of 1967, twelve young adults stood in Pastor Dick Iverson’s office, asking that he train them in their own church.

Meeting in a small conference room in September 1988, eighteen men and women came together to form a different kind of church.

A Bible study began in the summer of 2003 in response to the demand from people who were passionate about this church plant.

Since 2004, David has been formally engaged in the rigorous pursuit of Bible teaching through New Testament Greek and Old Testament Hebrew grammar, syntax, and textual criticism.

In Spring 2010, the online program was started with a pilot group of 48 students in two courses and since then the number of students has outgrown the campus population and includes a full Bachelors Program online.

In the summer of 2011, six people gathered together in Brantford and started to pray for God to do things in their city that only He could do.

In the summer of 2013, the Elders at Hope Oakville discerned that the time was right to plant a new church in Brantford.

In the early half of 2015, the Lord provided a team of faithful men to form what is now the leadership team- men who love and obey Christ, love His Word, love to serve His people, and love to proclaim the great Gospel about Him.

City Bible Church finally launched in February 2016 at Warren A. McClaskey Adult Center in East Sacramento! In the summer months, however, the absence of air conditioning in our meeting space motivated us to pray for a new location.

In 2017, a new church planting movement, The Great Commission Collective (GCC), was formed.