History of North Shore Community Church

In the mid 90's a Core group formed, longing for a church that would reach non-christians on the North Shore. Then God called Al and Rene Barth to Long Island.  When they arrived, this small group of people consisted of seven adults along with their five children and an assortment of other individuals.

We were organized as a particular (self-governing) church, September 12, 1999. We are still a young church.  At the end of 2000, Al Barth resigned to continue his church planting.  Assistant pastor Joel Pelsue and the elders provided leadership for the following few years until the summer of 2003 when John Yenchko and his family came to serve the church as senior pastor.

Our first initial goal was to establish a beachhead on the North Shore from which we hope to take the Island for Christ by establishing other P.C.A. congregations.  We see ourselves as a continuation of that church which Jesus Christ established in the first century.  It is our desire to join hands with any and all evangelical churches who yet proclaim the gospel, to make Christ known throughout the Island, New York City and the rest of the world.