Christ Church Ann Arbor began in 2011, as a small group hosted in someone’s home with the intention of planting a church. Several of the founding church plant members came from Pathway Community Church in Brighton, MI. In March 2012, the church began to hold bi-weekly Sunday services, transitioning to weekly Sunday services in September 2012.
Why start a new church?
New churches do wonderful things for the world. New churches tend to have a fresh sense of mission, a desire to reach out and care for the community, and an energy to go and do it. Starting new churches features predominately in the earliest Christian activities and we believe that today more than ever new churches are good for the world.
From 2012, the church continued to grow, and it moved from being under the leadership of the church we came out of to being led by our own board of elders in May 2017. This happened when four elders were ordained and installed. In May 2018, this was followed by installing four deacons.
In 2019, Jeremy Byrd was called to be Christ Church’s first full-time pastor, and he was installed as pastor in September 2019. In October 2024, Jeremy Byrd resigned as senior pastor to pastor another church.
In June 2023 we moved into our permanent location in south Ann Arbor.
In 2024, Chad Burrow was added as an assistant pastor. A Pastoral Search Committee was established in the fall of 2024 and is now in the process of identifying our next senior pastor. To apply for the position, visit our Employment Opportunities page.
Please visit us and consider becoming part of what God is doing at Christ Church Ann Arbor.