About RCC — Our Story

Our Story So Far…

Roswell Community Church began in a home with a group of friends praying together. It was small and simple. In fact, the church was started not as a church at all, but as a prayer group, gathering weekly to be with each other and make some sense of the recent pain many of them had experienced in the church. Not exactly the dream start for a new church. But God loves surprises and what started as a small group of hurting people, became a growing group of eager people for a community that would love God and love each other. Before we knew it, the fire marshall was shutting down the church gatherings because it was too large for the home.

From 2004-2006 three pastors (Art Vander Veen, Matthew Browne, and Mike Baumgardner) came to the church to help lead and shepherd the growing body. We met in a few church buildings in the area during off-hours, before landing at our current location, the Cottage School where we have met since since February 2006. In 2007 we added Mike Browne to the team and in 2010 Matt Miller became the new Lead Pastor of the church.

We’re still relatively small and we’re certainly young. Roswell Community Church is in her infancy. A lot has changed since those first prayer meetings. God has brought healing where there was grief; He’s given vision where there was confusion; and He’s formed Roswell Community Church into the healthy, Gospel-centered, independent body that she is today.

And that’s our story, or at least so far. We believe we are just a small part of God’s larger story that he’s been telling for eternity past and will tell for eternity to come. He has invited us into His larger story to play a significant part in it. We hope you’ll find the story that God is unraveling at Roswell is one you’d like to join. We believe we’re still in the early chapters and we are excited to see how He will lead us into the plot He’s written for us.