Rolling Hills Community Church began
in 1975 as a vision in the heart of a young seminary student named Dale
Ebel. God gave him a vision that he would someday establish a church
that would reach thousands of people with the Good News of Jesus
Christ. A place where men, women and children could find salvation in
Jesus Christ and be led to grow in Christian maturity. A place where
they could find the life mission for which God had created them.
Rolling
Hills held its first service in the Oregon Bank building on Easter
Sunday 1978 with 120 people. And in the months and years that followed,
the congregation would find themselves riding a spiritual wave only God
could send. After meeting in homes and school gyms for six years, the
congregation miraculously raised $685,000 and construction was
completed on the Rolling Hills church home in 1984.
In 1995,
Rolling Hills reached a pivotal turning point as it refined its vision
for the future. Pastor Dale invited the congregation to pray Isaiah
43:5, asking God to bring 10,000 people from the North, South, East and
West into the Rolling Hills family. By 1999, weekly attendance had
grown by 30% and the number of weekend services grew to four. More and
more
families began calling Rolling Hills their church home.