Our History and God's Faithfulness:
1998 - Present
The idea to plant a church in the Nashotah area began in 1990, while Country Christian School (CCS) was in the process of finding a new facility. It was the strong belief of several individuals on the CCS building committee that good stewardship meant sharing a facility with a like-minded, evangelical church. The thought was that both ministries would share in the cost of operating the facility. After many in-depth discussions about a joint venture, the Lord seemed to close this door.
In 1994, a group of six Christian men came together with the conviction to plant a Christ-centered, Word-driven local church in the Lake Country. These men met weekly for almost a year to pray, study God’s Word, and fellowship together. There was no consensus and no confirmation of God’s direction at that time, but the Lord was establishing a foundation.
From 1994 to 1998, several families continued to believe that God would establish another gospel witness. A number of godly couples in the Lake Country/Waukesha area began to sense God’s leading to plant a church where the Word of God would be taught in a verse-by-verse, expositional manner, and where God-honoring, theologically rich, joyful worship would be presented through “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.” (Colossians 3:16; Psalms 33:1-3).
The Lord brought this group together on June 21, 1998, at the home of one of our founders. The small, new church family eventually moved to the larger accommodations at Country Christian School in Nashotah in August of 1998.
The Lord continued to care for this infant church, and after much prayer and discussion, the Constitution and By-laws were drawn up by godly lay leaders.
Pastor Sal Massa was called to serve as pastor in December of 1998.
In 2005, a property in Nashotah became available. A vision was cast to someday build a permanent church building on the property. Due to legal hurdles and infrastructure challenges, building plans had to be postponed. The church continued to meet at Country Christian School until 2005 and then moved to Lake Country School in Hartland. In 2007, after a number of years in a cramped office in Delafield, we were blessed with a roomy office suite in Hartland to serve as our Ministry Center.
In 2013, the legal hurdles were removed and plans for constructing a building could finally move forward. Ground was broken for the construction project in June of that year. By the grace of God, a new facility was dedicated in October 2015. After several years in the new facility, an exploratory building team and church leadership presented an official building expansion project to the congregation. The congregation approved the building expansion plan, and in the Spring of 2024, the church moved into its newly renovated facilities with an expanded sanctuary, foyer, and new education/fellowship wing.
In 2016, Pastor Sal announced that he would be retiring from LCBC and devoting his attention to teaching and ministering with our missionary partners in India. In March of 2017, Pastor Caleb Kolstad was called to be our next (second) Senior Pastor, and served the congregation through June of 2025. In late 2025 a search for our third Senior Pastor began.
Our current Senior Pastor, Myral Watson, (The Expositors Seminary) was called in January 2026.
