It all started when...

On October 2013, Pastor Steve Wiens begins to sense a dream to begin a church focused on “new beginnings”. In the spring of 2014 Steve met with people to invite them to be part of the core team for this new congregation. By June, 60 Adults and 40 kids had committed to join the “Core team.” and Steve signs paperwork with the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). Monthly preview services started in July and by October monthly services began at Sabes Jewish Community Center.

By 2018, Genesis Church needed to find a larger meeting place for worship and offices and settled on Elim Lutheran Church Center in Robbinsdale.

Even from those earliest days, Genesis was known as a place for curiosity, for engaging worship, for tons of kids and All Plays during sermons.

This congregation weathered some storms together in our almost 10 year history, including shifting to online only gatherings during the beginning of COVID, a changing partnership with our (now former) denomination and Steve leaving for a new congregation in 2022.

Genesis today remains a people gathered around our mission, vision and values to be ordinary apprentices of Jesus, committed to cultivating new beginnings in all of us, everywhere.