Church On the Hill

We walked in and this place immediately felt like home!
We were welcomed at that door, and given assistance to get our son checked in for his Sunday school class. His teachers were friendly and attentive.
The worship music is contemporary, upbeat, and familiar. And the sermons challenge you to grow.

This review is only for Sunday evening Core Fellowship seminars at 6:30pm.
Always interesting topics from seasoned seminary graduates. From biblical archaelology, men/​women communication patterns, persecution to end times.
Open to everyone, regardless of religion.
Parking: plenty.
Décor: cool 60’s architecture.

I look forward to attending church every Sunday. My high school daughter brings friends twice a week to youth group. Cool Jr. High, fun Elementary, adult Community Groups, Bible Studies, too. Pastor Jane is the best worship leader ever! Pastor Scott preaches from the Bible, and with humor, and genuine emotion. Pastor Elliot has a passion for Missions. Casual atmosphere, and can bring coffee into service. Café sells food and drinks before and between services. Come check it out!

Attended a wedding here over the weekend and really enjoyed the architecture of this huge flying saucer shaped building.
The main chapel is very large and the entire room is round like a greek forum so every seat in the house is a good seat and every word from the people on the stage is clearly audible. –1 star for no windows/​natural light, which I cannot function without. The chapel and church are well designed and barely require any additional decorations and there is a lovely fountain in the lobby, a smaller chapel with great lighting for pictures, and the church is on a huge hill that gives you a ponoramic view of the San Jose area. So tons of wedded bliss photo ops!

Pseudo art deco building filled with regular, friendly people. I felt like nobody was trying too hard to be cool like in some hip churches. My husband and I felt welcomed (maybe too much so!) as we were greeted by about 6 different people on our way into the building and the service.
Pros:
— good AV team
— strong music
— comfortable chairs
— mix of ages present — diversity
— the people seem happy and friendly
— church planting in nicaragua
— convenient service times
— good sermon
— casual clothes ok
Cons:
— no, I am not going to wear a nametag
— lots of I/​me songs rather than songs that talk about God’s attributes
— denominational affiliation kinda hidden
My biggest pet peeve that is starting to be a trend with some churches is to bury information about denominational affiliation. I checked the website and it took me a long time to see that the church started as a Baptist church. I didn’t see it at all when I looked around on the website via a mobile device, and I didn’t see anything in the bulletin or materials that were available to church attendees (without asking at the info booth).

This church is absolutely Beautiful, its location, the interiors are beautiful.
–praise and worship: the music was contemporary but the audience is very passive. and the praise and worship was short, 2 songs. The leader of the worship team has a great voice.
–the message: was ehhh. I don’t know how else to put it.
–Members: friendly, not as diverse as I expected being in the Bay area.
Overall, worth a try, I want to visit the church again to see if I just made it on an off weekend.

Great San Jose church for the whole family. Pastor is awesome! Music is contemporary and high quailty. People are very nice. Check out their website for more info: