About
Built to open doors.
Our story // est. 2011
Copperline began in 2011 in a rented warehouse on Foundry Street with sixty chairs, a borrowed sound system and a pastor who had never planned to start anything. We only wanted to find out whether a church could be big enough to matter and close enough to know your name.
Fifteen years and five campuses later the answer is still being written. The rooms are bigger and the production is better, but the shape has not changed. We worship loud, open the Bible, tell the truth about what is hard and send people out to serve the city we live in.
We do not think a church is a show or a brand. It is a people on a mission, and the doors stay open.
What we hold to.
- Open doors
- Honest rooms
- Loud worship
- Everyday courage
- A city, not a crowd
What we believe
The short version.
The Bible
We believe the Bible is God's word, our final authority for what we believe and how we live.
Jesus
We believe Jesus is fully God and fully man, that he died for our sins, rose bodily and will return.
Grace
We believe we are saved by grace through faith, not by anything we do.
The Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit lives in every believer, makes us more like Jesus and equips the church.
The church
We believe the local church is God's plan for his people: baptism, communion, community and mission.
Hope
We believe God is making all things new and that we get to live that hope now.
Our team
The people.
Real pastors with real phones. Say hello.
Daniel Brooks
Lead pastorPlanted Copperline in a rented warehouse in 2011. Preaches from one passage at a time and believes a big church should still feel like a front porch.
Maya Okonkwo
Executive pastorRuns the machine that makes five campuses feel like one family. Former operations director, current favorite of every volunteer.
Lena Park
Worship and creativeWrites much of what we sing and builds the rooms we sing it in. Classical training, garage-band heart.
Nora Lindqvist
Kids and familiesTwelve years in children's ministry. Knows every kid's name and every allergy, at all five campuses.
This Sunday
There is a seat with your name on it.
Tell us when you are coming and we will email you everything you need, so nothing about Sunday is a surprise.