Our History

In March 1937, Mrs. Lizzie Shaw gathered thirteen children together in Pittsburgh's Chinatown to establish the Pittsburgh Chinese Mission. Following its inception, the Mission gradually expanded to the point of being formally registered and established as the Pittsburgh Chinese Church in 1980. Throughout its history the Church has remained an independent, interdenominational and evangelical church.

The Church has been holding regular Sunday worship services since 1965. Sermons were initially preached mainly in Mandarin and translated into English and Cantonese. However, due to an increase in English-speakers, the Church established separate English and Chinese services in 1991 and met once a month in a combined service to take Holy Communion together.

The church purchased the Perrysville church building in 1984, which provided a relatively fixed gathering place for its ever-increasing spiritual and social activities and we held worship services there every week. Starting in March 1995, the church began to hold evangelical worship services every Sunday afternoon in Oakland to bring the Gospel to the people there as well.

In 1997, we began to feel deeply that if we wanted to engage in outreach to Chinese people, we needed to move closer to where they were concentrated, and to a safer area where there was more convenient parking, ample space for activities and more evangelical opportunities. After many years of searching, devotion, and offering, God miraculously granted us a 37,000 square feet building on five acres of beautiful hilltop land in 2001.