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Bayside Church, formally known as Bayside Covenant Church, is a family of churches and venues centered on its primary campus in Roseville, California, USA, which is referred to as the Granite Bay campus. The Church is led by Senior Pastor Ray Johnston, Teaching Pastors Curt Harlow and Andrew McCourt, and Worship Pastor Lincoln Brewster.〔 John Jackson, the former executive pastor at Bayside, became the president of William Jessup University on March 23, 2011.〔 Bayside is one of the largest churches in the Sacramento metropolitan area.〔 It is affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church. ==History== Led by Senior Pastor Ted Smith, First Covenant Church of Sacramento planted Bayside Church in 1995, and Ray Johnston was the founding pastor of Bayside. Bayside traces its informal beginnings to 1994, following the suicides of a few local teenagers. Worried that the community didn’t have resources available to serve troubled youth, a group of parents joined together to pray for help. The group soon increased to 164 people and moved to the Granite Bay Tennis Club. An elementary school and high school also housed parishioners before Bayside Church built a permanent facility on 34.6 acres of land on Sierra College Boulevard in 2004.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bayside Church celebrates its 15th anniversary )〕 As of spring 2015, attendance has grown to over 14,000, with eight church services every weekend at the Granite Bay campus, a Sunday service at both the Folsom and Blue Oaks campuses, and three Sunday services at the Midtown Sacramento campus (formerly The House Christian Church) – each Bayside campus has its own pastor and worship team. Other churches in the Sacramento region that have the Bayside name and are loosely affiliated with Bayside as the "Bayside Family of Churches" include: Bayside of Woodland, Bayside Church of Citrus Heights, Bayside of South Sacramento (BOSS), Bayside in Galt, Bayside Lincoln, Bayside Church of Placerville, Bayside Plumas Lake, and Bayside Life Church in Rancho Cordova. Sherwood Carthen, founding pastor of Bayside of South Sacramento (January 1, 2005) and chaplain of the Sacramento Kings, passed away suddenly on September 25, 2013. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bayside Pastor Sherwood Carthen Dies )〕 In an event called CPR Saturday, American Red Cross volunteers gave cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) lessons for free at Bayside, where completion of the program granted an American Red Cross CPR year-long certification. Nearly 500 people were expected to attend.〔 Between April and May 2010, the church hosted an exhibit including portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls that were obtained by Azusa Pacific University in 2009, as well as historical Bibles and other Christian works.〔 Bayside hosted over one thousand worship leaders, musicians, songwriters, pastors, technicians, and artists at the Thriving Musician Summit in mid-September 2010. The church featured artists Matt Redman, Paul Baloche, Lincoln Brewster, and Phil Keaggy.〔 Bayside hosts an annual Thrive Leadership Conference every year where 3,000 pastors and church leaders from many cities come to worship, hear from speakers andbe inspired by Bayside volunteers. Bayside rented the Power Balance Pavilion during the Easter of 2011, attracting a crowd of 17,000 people.〔 Bayside collaborated with local businesses, to raise money for the relief effort involved with alleviating the devastation caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bayside Church (Sacramento region)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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