Our History
Twenty years ago, a tent-making pastor/farmer from the Death Valley region of Nevada relocated his young family to a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona to start a new church. Plowing hard ground had become his way of life - in farming and in church planting. This new chapter in Mesa, Arizona would be no different. At the time, the northeast area of Mesa was undeveloped and even desolate in parts. The projections were for several master-planned communities that would draw thousands of people to live there and make it their community. This was the place that Bob Fox and several church-planting types from a mother church began their vision of a church that was a little different in their Sunday morning approach. This church would focus on pulpit teaching that was exegetical - bucking the seeker-sensitive church planting trend of topical preaching popular at that time.
So it began - Red Mountain Community Church (RMCC) - named after the distinctive, rocky up-cropping that cast its shadow on the burgeoning community. The first service was on Easter Sunday in 1990 with 33 people attending. We met in an Italian restaurant - making use even of the bar (as the nursery - with the alcohol bottles covered with drapes so parents would not wonder why their children were surprisingly calm when they picked them after worship services). In this temporary five-year home, our church grew to multiple services with more than 400 regular attenders before we moved into their first permanent building on 13.5 acres only a few miles away and even closer to their red mountain name-sake. The promise of growth was great as a planned freeway corridor bordered almost an entire mile of one side of the property. This freeway section would be the last link of a long-awaited perimeter freeway that encircled the entire Phoenix Valley.
Now, some 20 years later, we have grown - not just in numbers, but in people who are really knowing God, following Him and giving themselves to Him!
