As a Biblical ministry, our motivation is the Great Commandment, and our purpose is the Great Commission. We exist to glorify God by blessing our neighbor through making disciples of Jesus Christ.

To not only talk or hope of making disciples, but to invite people to become disciples of Christ.
John 1:39,43; Psalm 34:8

To invest in others as Jesus invested in us.
Philippians 2:5-8

Through discipleship, giving people a new story, plot and hero, imagining the possibilities.
John 14-17

The Church Gathered and Scattered started out as an English Ministry department of Pilgrim Church. Pilgrim Church was founded in 1997 with a vision to spread God's blessing to all nations, as we have received so much. The English Ministry began in 1998 to support the young adults of Pilgrim Church whose primary language was English (rather than Korean), and who preferred a more contemporary worship style. Our pioneers were a small, resilient group of brothers and sisters who gathered for their own service late on Sunday afternoon after serving as youth group teachers in the morning; sometimes there were more people on the praise team than in the pews!

God has been so faithful as our numbers have grown, and our body has evolved and matured. Former youth group students graduated into the English Ministry and became leaders; some are now youth group teachers themselves. We have welcomed many new faces (including more babies and young children) and said farewell to some old ones, who are faithfully serving the Lord in places as far away as Hong Kong, Seoul, and the West Coast. Through all these changes, we have witnessed God at work and actively drawing His people closer to Him.

January 2017, with the blessing and guidance of our parent church, we became an independent church as The Church Gathered and Scattered. We continue on with our mission that wherever we go, and whatever we do, we want to love God and share God's love with others. We look forward to meeting you and growing together in Jesus Christ.

Having, as we trust, been brought by God's Grace to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and to give up ourselves to Him, and having been baptized and confirmed upon our profession of faith, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, we do now, relying on His gracious aid, solemnly and joyfully renew our covenant with each other.

We will work and pray for the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

We will walk together in brotherly love, as becomes the members of a Christian Church, exercise an affectionate care and watchfulness over each other, and faithfully admonish and entreat one another as occasion may require.

We will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, nor neglect to pray for ourselves and others.

We will endeavor to bring up such as may at any time be under our care, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and by a pure and loving example to seek the salvation of our family and friends.

We will rejoice at each other’s happiness and endeavor with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other’s burdens and sorrows.

We will seek, by God's aid, to live carefully in the world, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, and remembering that, as we have been voluntarily buried by baptism and raised again from the symbolic grave, so there is on us a special obligation now to lead a new and holy life.

We will work together for the continuance of a faithful evangelical ministry in this church, as we sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines. We will contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all nations.

We will, if and when we move from this place, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.