History of RMPC

Church

Built Together

In the spring of 2000, Catalina Foothills Church established a steering committee to look into the possibility of planting a church on the east side of Tucson. After much planning and prayer, and through God’s provision, on January 7, 2001, Rincon Mountain Presbyterian Church held its first worship service at Magee Middle School. One day short of one year later, Rincon Mountain Presbyterian Church became a particular church in the Presbyterian Church in America on January 6, 2002.

Soon after that we began to look for land on which we could build our permanent home. Through a contact in his office, one of our deacons made us aware of 18 ½ acres on Tanque Verde Rd. The property was not yet on the market but was for sale. Groups of people from the church came to this land to pray and seek God’s favor for its purchase.

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During negotiations with the owner, more than one developer made cash offers which were higher than the asking price. Both times our seemingly dashed hopes were given new life as, in God’s providence, the developers backed out. Finally, we were able to close the deal.

Now that we had the land we could turn our attention to a building. We formed a building committee to do the work of completing this project. In April of 2004 we held our ‘Giving Together’ banquet at Catalina Foothills Church. It was there at that banquet that we were presented with design ideas and the opportunity to give financially to the building project. The church received in excess of $650,000 in pledges toward the building project.

On October 10, 2004 RMPC, held a ground breaking service on the church property and in the next several weeks the ground was cleared and construction began. We received our certificate of occupancy at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, September 9, 2005 and held our first worship service in the new building on September 11, 2005.

We praise God for his wonderful provision for his people and for the city of Tucson!