Christ Church Ann Arbor (CCAA) began in 2010 as a small group meeting for Bible study,
hymn-singing, and fellowship in the home of the bi-vocational pastor Will Shurtliff. Pathway
Community Church in Brighton (the first PCA church in southeast Michigan) supported Will’s
vision of planting a church in Ann Arbor.
After choosing the name Christ Church Ann Arbor, the growing congregation began to meet for
Sunday services at Northside Community Church in Ann Arbor in 2012. Leadership and
outreach duties were shared by part-time assistant and associate pastors, along with several
musicians and many volunteers.
The founding membership of the church, sixteen adults, was formally received in 2016, with the
first elders and deacons ordained the following year. By 2018, Christ Church Ann Arbor was
established as a particular church under the auspices of the Great Lakes Presbytery of the
Presbyterian Church in America, and in September of 2019, Jeremy Byrd was called and
installed as the first full-time pastor.
After a long search for a permanent home, which involved sharing space with Washtenaw
Christian Academy, Christ Church Ann Arbor moved in 2023 to South Industrial Highway, Ann
Arbor. Chad Burrow became assistant pastor in 2023, and senior pastor Jeremy Byrd was
replaced by Steve Gonzales in 2025.
Christ Church Ann Arbor is a warm and growing fellowship of believers from a variety of
backgrounds, young and old, who joyfully live out the gospel, shining the light of Christ Jesus in
Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County.