Proclaiming Jesus in Vancouver since 1891.

Our story is one of faith through the ups and downs of over 130 years of ministry, trusting God in every season to bear fruit in our time.

Planted from First Baptist Church in Vancouver as Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, our church began as an opportunity to meet the needs of a newly developing neighbourhood on the other side of False Creek. Through years of ministry in Mount Pleasant, with multiple buildings and changing needs, God ended up partnering us with the Baptist General Conference of Canada, which would lead to a season of multiplication and blessing.

In the mid-20th century, we were part of planting and helping to plant churches all over British Columbia; a legacy of kingdom-mindedness. and multiplication we look to continue.

Click here to see a chart of all the churches and ministries stemming from Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in the mid-1900s.

Seasons change, but the word of the Lord remains.

Throughout the years of the late-90s and early 2000s, our church endured faithfully through a more challenging period. We changed our name to Global Community Church, then back again to Mount Pleasant Baptist. We moved around to a few different locations, seeking to follow the Spirit’s leading. All the while, we continued to pray for revitalization and the opportunity to again really bless this neighbourhood God placed us in originally.

On Easter 2024, we re-planted as The Garden Church | Mount Pleasant, with a renewed vision to be a neighbourhood church, existing “For Mount Pleasant in Jesus’ Name.”

We seek to be a church that represents and loves the neighbourhood, and is part of her flourishing and renewal for generations to come, as we pray, “in Mount Pleasant as in heaven.”