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Daughter Church & Parent Church Award

Four years ago, Ryan Kwon never would have imagined that God would lead him out of his hometown of L.A.  But God uprooted him and his family and led them to a relatively unknown city in the Bay Area called Fremont.  They quickly fell in love with the area while at the same time, God was giving them a renewed vision to see what His church can do to restore the physical, social and spiritual wholeness of a city.

Photo at top–Prayer during the commissiong service for Resonate Church

Ryan Kwon, Resonate Church
Dave Page, EFCA West District
Ron King, Bridges Community Church 

From 2006 to 2009, Ryan was the teaching pastor of Bridges Community Church a large, healthy, multi-cultural church.  There he met Scott Taylor who would eventually become his first elder and pastor.  Together with Bridges and the EFCA, Ryan was sent as a missionary to reach this city for the gospel by planting a church that plants churches.  Thus, Resonate was born.

Ryan cast this vision to different families and 70 individuals committed to being a part of a missional core. God also stirred in five other immensely talented people to serve along with Ryan as staff.  Each left paying positions to fulfill the dream God gave them–to start a gospel movement in the city so many would come to know Him.

Since its launch in March that gathered 400 people with most being unchurched neighbors, Resonate has been a church for the city by beautifying a local school, performing oil changes for single moms, renovating homes in the community, and even cancelling a Sunday to partner with the city to plant trees.

Although these events emphasize the commitment of Resonate to be a benefit to the city, the greatest God moments have been the life change happening in our community.  One young dad who had not attended church his entire life, came to Christ after he participated in the child dedication service of his son.  People are prayer walking and talking to God when they had never known how to pray before.  Many are reading the Bible for the fist time, even reading it to their children.  And some, who had never communicated the gospel in 30 years, are now engaging in sharing the gospel with their friends and neighbors.  At Resonate, they call these things God’s movement.