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About Us

Our Story

A multi-ethnic network forged in faith, compassion, and the conviction that the gospel multiplies through healthy leaders.

Who we are

Founded in faith, forged in hardship

The PCJC was founded upon the sacrificial lives of four women who reached out in faith to the first Japanese who had settled in the United States in the early 1900s.

The network was forged out of the difficult and challenging conditions of the Japanese internment camps of the 1940s. It was then that several Free Methodist pastors and congregations reached out with love and compassion to share the gospel — and the fruit of that outreach was overwhelming.

Today the PCJC is a thriving multi-ethnic network of 21 churches and three preaching points throughout California, with an aggressive strategy to plant 20 churches from San Diego to Seattle and beyond.

A diverse church community in conversation
1900s
First outreach to Japanese settlers
4
Founding women of faith
21
Churches today
20
New churches by 2036

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