
Catalyst Church began with a simple belief: church should feel less like a performance and more like a family. No perfect people, no pretending — just real community, real hope, and a place where anyone can take a step toward Jesus.
What started as a small gathering has grown into a vibrant, servant-hearted church meeting every Sunday at Mountain View Core Knowledge School. From the beginning, we’ve been passionate about helping people who are far from God but close to us find and follow Jesus.
Along the way, Catalyst has become known for rolling up our sleeves and serving our city. We laugh together, worship passionately, ask honest questions, drink a lot of coffee, and do everything we can to love God and love people well.
This is a place to belong, grow, and make a difference.
No matter your age, background, or experience — welcome to Catalyst.
We’re glad you’re here.😊
Ryan has served in full-time ministry for more than twenty years, including twelve years as a Worship Pastor in several churches and the last decade as the Lead Pastor of Catalyst Church, which he helped launch in February 2016.
He studied ministry at Bible college in Missouri and later earned his ministry degree from the College of Theology at Grand Canyon University.
Ryan and his wife, Elise, have been married since 2004 and are grateful parents to three amazing kids—Noah, Eli, and McKinley.

We communicate the message of Jesus with clarity, energy, and creativity. Our approach is fresh, but our beliefs are steady and grounded in Scripture.
We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons, that these are equal in every divine perfection, and that they execute distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence and redemption.
We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of each person, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal visible return to earth.
We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher and guide.
We believe that all people are sinners by nature and by choice and are, therefore, under condemnation. We believe that those who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe in the local church, consisting of a company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible confession of faith, and associated for worship, work and fellowship. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the local church the primary task of giving the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world.
We believe that Christians should live for the glory of God and the well-being of others; that their conduct should be blameless before the world; that they should be faithful stewards of their possessions; and that they should seek to realize for themselves and others the full stature of maturity in Christ.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water into the name of the triune God. We believe that the Lord’s Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that every human being has direct relations with God, and is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each church is independent and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that therefore Church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from dictation or patronage of the other.
We believe in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the establishment of His kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the eternal felicity of the righteous, and the endless suffering of the wicked.
At Catalyst Church, ministry is a team effort. Our staff is made up of people who love Jesus, love people, and are passionate about helping others find their way back to God. Get to know the leaders who serve our church and community every week.

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