North Ridge Community Church  |  Johnson City, TN
In the summer of 2008, a few families began meeting to plan for the launch of a different kind of church. Those families believed that Johnson City desperately needed churches that were biblically sound but also culturally relevant. By the fall of 2009, North Ridge Community Church had its Grand Opening. North Ridge Community Church desires to be a church planting church. For that reason, in January of 2014 they launched their West Market campus. Its public launch had over 230 people! And it didn’t stop there … In the fall of 2015 they launched their Erwin Campus. This is the first church plant the town has seen in over twenty-five years. The new church is already the largest church in town. The fourth church is in the pipeline and will be launching soon. The Gray Campus will launch in 2017.

Gary Schwenke | Erwin Campus
This is the first church plant the town has seen in over twenty-five years. The leaders were raised up out of the local community. The core of the church came out of a disciple-making culture of the mother church in Johnson City. Many of those who have come to Christ had assumed that they were Christians. As the group began to have spiritual conversations with the locals many discovered that they needed to come to Christ. Even though they only launched in 2015, the new church is already the largest church in town. The Erwin campus is growing quickly, and provides a unique environment in the Erwin/Unicoi area.

Buddy Gossey | Gray Campus
Buddy is one of our youngest planters. He is using his reputation as a well known local athlete to build relationships in the community he area up in. Buddy is planting his church among a community of young adults who are graduating from the local regional university and young suburban professionals who are moving into the area because of the strong job market. He has assembled a great group of young leaders and they are focused on making disciples.

North Ridge is jut one of many of our churches that are beginning to multiply not only disciples, but entire churches. God is starting a Movement of Multiplication within the missionary Churches that’s becoming unstoppable.