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Connected, healthy, and making an impact

God’s mission thrives in unity, not uniformity. Converge PacWest connects leaders to a diverse family of churches with the relationships and resources they need to fulfill their unique calling.

Better
together.

Converge PacWest (a region of Converge) is a network of gospel-centered churches in Northern California, Northern Nevada, and Hawaii.

For over 170 years, we’ve been sharing best-in-class resources, training, and relationships.

Together, our diverse family of churches and leaders is helping people meet, know, and follow Jesus.

What we do

We help high-potential, healthy, reproducing, and aligned leaders start new churches, strengthen their churches, and send missionaries worldwide for the glory of God. 

Here’s how.

Start

Church planting and multiplication

Leverage our refined systems and resources that have helped 98% of our church plants launch successfully. Connect to lifelong mentors who won’t abandon you after year one.

Strengthen

For existing churches and their leaders

With Converge PacWest, your church can benefit from authentic relationships, diverse perspectives, health assessments, growth resources, leadership multiplication, and more.

Send

We’ll help you set and implement a missions strategy that best aligns with your church’s calling and help you continue reaching the diverse nationalities in your own backyard.

Church Planting & Multiplication

From violence to victory: former gang member shifts to gospel ministry

A farmer who saved a blustering, bellowing cow from death in an Iowa barn reminded Ray his life didn’t equal a full-stop failure. Drug dealing sent Ray’s parents to prison when the California boy was six or seven. Within a decade, he was in a gang with his uncles and cousins. They carried guns, sold […]

Church Planting & Multiplication

God turns Converge PacWest’s five-year goal into a three-year accomplishment

Two colossal challenges collided in late 2019 when Chris Lovelace became Converge PacWest’s church planting director. First, he and fellow leaders agreed to trust God for 25 new planters in northern California, northern Nevada and Hawaii by 2026. The collision came just a few months later: COVID-19 unleashed a prolonged, erratic disruption of work, life […]

Evangelism & Discipleship International Ministries

Satan’s worst nightmare

Elizabeth and William Nicoleti didn’t need a thermometer last month to realize the building where Aviva Igreja Cristã worships was warmer than expected. A church member who climbed atop the roof discovered the why behind the warmth: someone had stolen copper wires that supply power to the air conditioner. Then the disciple found a black […]

Church Planting & Multiplication

“I never thought it would be us”

Rodel Balingit didn’t feel too excited when he visited a Bible study in the early days of Forever Community Church. It was Mother’s Day 2021, Benjamin and Hilda Padua explained, when Rodel and his wife, Maryanne, came. She wanted him to go to the Bible study as part of the special day for moms. Then […]

Church Planting & Multiplication

California church offers rest to road-weary commuters

Brentwood is a place to live. But the California city isn’t exactly a place for life. People struggle to find jobs in Brentwood or neighboring Antioch. So, they work closer to San Francisco. Brentwood empties out around 5 a.m. every day as people make the long commute to work. Those same workers don’t get home […]

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No pastor or church launching or leading alone

If you want help starting a church, strengthening your church, or reaching unreached people groups with the gospel, let’s talk.

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Hear stories from our churches, access our latest resources and events, and stay connected to what God’s doing through Converge PacWest.