Love listening to Gus Bess. He has such a way with God's word! Very friendly church. Love the music…read moreand the words of God!

I love the Bridge. It has been my church home for 14 years. It is easy to become involved and the…read morepeople have become my family. I feel I have grown spiritually over the years but still have so much more to learn. Our ladies Bible study is such a blessing. It is so rewarding to search the scriptures and gain knowledge as we share with each other. I am so glad we found a church home that loves God and loves each other.

My husband and I live less than 30 minutes from the beach, thus we go regularly. We have one beach…read morethat we consider 'our beach'. It's our happy place. We go and relax for hours with a cooler, snacks, and a yacht rock playlist. It's always relaxing and how we recharge our batteries. We snuck off to our beach yesterday. I took an hour long nap on our beach blanket, while Luis watched over me in a comfy chair under an umbrella. I was awakened by the arrival of a very large group of people, dozens of them, a church group. They quickly put up large banners identifying themselves with a motto of "Known By Our Love". They were having fun and soon enough they began a baptism service in the ocean. We decided to take a walk down the beach and very quickly began to notice the disapproving stares and whispering. For a little context, I had a pride flag beach towel wrapped around my waist and we were holding hands. As we walked passed a group of church folks clad in matching shirts that said, "Know, Grow, and Go", Luis overheard one of the adults in the group say something along the lines of - keep moving/ go away. They all began to laugh as two teenage boys grabbed each other's hands and ran right in front of us skipping down the beach in an exaggeratedly feminine manner. The group of adults burst into laughter. As we turned to leave, Luis asked a couple walking by if they were with the church group. They said yes. He told them that we were just mocked by their church folks. Luis asked them if they accepted homosexuals. The woman answered "no" and the man said, "we accept everyone". May I humbly suggest that Life Community Church consider changing their motto? Here are a few options to try on: Known By Our Love For Those Like Us Keeping Ridicule And Judgement Alive Teaching The Next Generation To Hate We And Our God Hate Homos https://www.facebook.com/lccpaso?mibextid=wwXIfr&mibextid=wwXIfr@

My 89-year-old mother needs help. I called this church to see if they have a men's group that helps…read morecommunity people with various different jobs. They said yes and sent out three men to help my mother. My mother was very impressed with them and very happy with how they helped her. She will definitely use them again. They even got in a circle and prayed with her, which made her feel very good. Thank you very much for helping my mother. !!!

People are very friendly. Cute little room for babies. The perfect size church to make lasting…read morerelationships.

This a a great "small town" church. Pastor Darren has a great way of presenting biblical message…read more Seems to speak right to me. Lovely women's Bible study and vacation Bible school for kids.

Stephen has very good points and they are biblical. He offers good sense to people as congregation…read moreis beautiful.

We visited from Mesa, AZ last Sunday. We loved how friendliness and engaging everyone was. Thought…read moreit Was cool you could sit inside or Outside to hear the sermon. The worship was good too. Thee best part was the pastor's teaching literally from the Bible line by line. His handouts were very helpful and said if I lived there I would definitely go to that church. He was amazing and I still remember a lot of the teaching from Sunday! The community is blessed to Have such a knowledgeable and engaging leader!

SLO City Church is...AWESOME! That is the easiest way I can explain it, it has something for…read moreeveryone, it is a group of extremely friendly and genuine people, and it spreads hope for everyone. Sunday service at SLO City is amazing, the worship warms your heart up so that you are all ready for the message. Someone almost always shares their own story. Brent walks us through scripture and gives real practical connections. Outside of Sunday there are all kinds of gatherings and parties. Real people making real relationships and together making a real difference. I would highly recommend!!

I've only been attending for approximately the last three weeks, but there are some things that…read morereally stand out to me. They're very involved in our community, provide many opportunities for community with other believers in the church, and the messages and worship have been just what I needed. Looking forward to church on Sunday.

Highlands church and Youth group provides a welcoming safe space to experience the abundant love…read moreand healing of Jesus. Leadership and ministry team members are always eager to mentor individuals in their walk with the lord and meet people where they are at. The guidance and mentorship is always met with gentleness, kindness, compassion, and care.

This is an amazing church and the fellowship is great. Pastor James is an excellent leader,read more

This exquisite jewel of a church sits near Jolon, on the road to Mission San Antonio. Founded in…read more1885 by Reverend James Shannon McCowan, who moved to San Luis for his health from Monterey, it is still an active parish. Beautiful stained glass windows cast their light into the small space, warming the wooden structure. There are picnic tables outside the church building, and the first Sunday in May is their annual barbque feast for the community. There is also an old cemetery behind the church, which has graves from some of the local families.

There is a great mix of young and old people and a welcoming feeling to people that are both…read moreseasonal and locals. The worship band is very good and has the words up to follow along. The Pastors , Adam and Jesse made the message interactive a bit and used Bible verses to teach firmly how to apply what God's word is saying. Both new believers, seekers and established Christians can find an on-ramp to be filled with God's word. There is a Sunday School upstairs for kids and a playground. The Vineyard also has a thriftshop and food pantry.

Extremely inspirational. Fell like God speaks to me every time I attend. Full of caring people who…read moreare genuinely sensitive to the Holy Sprite. I'm

Atascadero Bible Church is such a welcoming and beautiful community dedicated to serving God and…read morethe people around us. I've basically grown up around this church and it has been here to offer all of my best childhood memories. Take your kids, it's a blast, and it truly is a church for God, not for money or anything like that, and you will have fun and enjoy the people.

very welcoming, the first lady i met was wonderful and asked me if i wanted prayer. the worship…read moreservice was great also, loved it.

Great gospel centered teaching and warm and inviting multigenerational group of people. Love their…read moreheart for the ministries they offer. Great family friendly church

At this church,, the theology is sound, it's bible- centric, and the preaching is good…read more However, you really don't want to go to this church for marital counseling. Unless you want to destroy your marriage. I've been at this church for 22 years. The cult like behavior didn't rear it's ugly head until 2012. My wife and I had marriage difficulties. The pastor at the time of our "Five Cities Campus", Ben Collins, instructed my wife to submit to a 'marriage counselor" named Mark McKinney. Mark identified (after taking $175 an hour) as a "sex addiction therapist". Not in any way a marriage counselor. He hangs in his office a "Stanford" in degree which I was told is deceipt. At best, he took one online class at Stanford. That is not near nor enough to qualify as graduating from Stanford. But he saw it was fit for me to submit to a lie detector test of everything I considered shameful from the time I was 4 years old. $175 an hour, $400 an hour for his friend that submitted us to then lie detector test. So, to the point. He told my wife that she was a victim of sex addiction. Even though we hadn't had sex in 6 years. At $175 an hour. He convinced her that the only way our marriage could survive would be for her to submit to a lie detector test to all of the shameful acts since 4 years old. At no time did he tell us that it would be equal and fair for her to submit to the same process. Only me. A wise person at the time counseled me at the time... that anything between me and God since four years old, as a child, was between me and God. They were right. Several doctors along the way:My psychiatrist. My psychologist.. my therapist...my family, my friends, my mother, my father... warned me that this would not be constructive to my marriage....but Mark McKinney, the person that SLO Grace referred us to... Was Mark McKinney. He made arguments to my wife that this is the only way to save my marriage.. and .the only hope of saving my marriage was to submit to the lie detector test. So what happened next? They forced me into a lie detector test. How? By threatening our marriage. He convinced my wife to not submit to the the lie detector, only me! Due to his influence, and directions my wife told me she would divorce me if I didn't go through the (eventually destructive) lie detector test. To reiterate, As a result of this "church" programming, she informed me that under the advice (that Ben Collins and Mark McKinney) that she should divorce me if I didn't submit to the lie detector test. I sought the advice of professionals, and they were overwhelmingly unanimous that this wouldn't be constructive to my marriage, but rather, destructive. Mark McKinney also convinced my wife that I was not to touch my penis except to urinate. I'd gone to Bible school from Kindergarten through High school, so I knew the scriptures. I knew all of the verses he was quoting in our session, he inserted curse words into then Bible. Becoming a "sexual addiction therapist", I would later learn, takes only a few weeks of online education. Anyone can become one, No real education required. So....I submitted to the lie detector test. The result? I became so stressed out during the lie detector test that my heart rate elevated to 200 beats per minute ( the norm is 65). I had to go the French Hospital ER and incurred a $9,000 bill. And what of Mark McKinney? He admitted that he had no training/experience to save a marriage (only to blow it up) to help us. He couldn't counsel us anymore after his buddy got a $400 kickback on the lie detector test. And after he'd taken us for over $1,000. He also refused to see me as a client anymore because and I quote 'My wife wrote a successful book" and I don't need to see clients anymore". So before you seek marital counseling from this church, be very, very careful. I've been seeing an actual professional psychologist since this ridiculous "Mickey Mouse" episode at Grace SLO. He had an obvious question: In the interest of equality, why didn't your wife also submit to the same lie detector test about all shameful things since she was 4 years old? The answer: The charlatan Mark McKinney makes far more money convincing wives they are innocent of all in a relationship, and instead indulge in a husband taking a ($400) lie detector, and $175 per hour to comment on the whole thing.