Redwood City Congregation

In March 2024, Jay was contacted by the leaders of Peninsula Hope, a church in Redwood City that had been experiencing a significant decline in attendance in recent years. What began as discussions on how WestGate Church might support them evolved into the possibility of launching a new congregation. After many months of prayer, fasting, and conversations between the elders and leaders of both churches, we arrived at the collective sense that God is calling us to launch a WestGate Redwood City (RWC) Congregation at Peninsula Hope’s current location, to join God in the work he’s already doing by helping people learn and live the way of Jesus together in Redwood City and throughout the Peninsula.

Andrew Min has joined the WestGate team as our RWC congregational pastor. Our conversation with Andrew started last summer through mutual friends, and since that time, our leadership has come to admire his love for Jesus, his commitment to the local church, and the humble and surrendered spirit with which he serves and leads. After many months and many rounds of interviews and conversations with him and his wife Sarah, Andrew has joined our staff to become our WestGate RWC congregational pastor. And it’s a joy for me to formally introduce him to you, our church family.

Between March and August 2025, Andrew Min, our new RWC congregational pastor, will be forming a launch team and holding interest meetings for those interested in being a part of the WestGate RWC congregation. We hope to do soft launch events (Alpha, worship gatherings) as we approach an official launch in the fall of 2025.

In short, we are not reallocating Here to Stay funds or any current WestGate funds toward this launch. Instead, Peninsula Hope’s leadership has made the beautiful, kingdom-minded decision to generously contribute all their existing resources to support the launch. As the WestGate RWC congregation grows toward health and viability, our expectation is that the congregation will become financially self-sustaining within the first couple of years.

Peninsula Hope is a part of the Free Methodist denomination (not to be confused with other Methodist denominations, e.g. the United Methodist Church). But WestGate is not joining the Free Methodist, nor any other, denomination; WestGate is remaining a non-denominational church. On a technical level, Peninsula Hope is ceasing to function as a local church, and WestGate will be leasing the building from the denomination (which owns the property) for $1/month.

If you live within 20 minutes of Redwood City (e.g. in or north of Mountain View), we’re asking you to pray and ask God why you shouldn’t consider being a part of the RWC congregation. If you live further and are interested, we’d encourage you to lean in and let us know.

Our RWC congregational pastor, Andrew Min, would love to meet you for coffee and invite you to attend an interest meeting.

Sign up for an interest meeting here
Email Andrew here

Data shows that if you live more than a 20-minute drive from your church, it becomes increasingly challenging to be connected and involved in the life of that church. So, our ask is that if you live in or north of Mountain View, pray and ask God why you shouldn’t be a part of WestGate Redwood City. If God gives you a clear answer as to why you shouldn’t, then please don’t—stay at whichever congregation God has called you to; we’d love to have you continue your journey there.

But if God doesn’t give you a clear answer as to why you shouldn’t, and you live in or north of Mountain View, we’re asking that you strongly consider joining us on the journey of launching this new Jesus community in the Peninsula. And of course, even if you don’t live near Redwood City or the Peninsula but sense that God might be calling you to be a part of this new story, we’d love to have you join us.