Sovereign Grace Baptist Church

Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Silicon Valley, assembling in San Jose, CA., was organized on the Lord's Day, June 19, 1994, with 20 members as an assembly of regularly-baptized believers, covenanting together in the context of the scriptures, as delineated in the church covenant, to glorify God and to serve him after the inspired pattern of the new testament church. The First and Second London Baptist Confessions of Faith were taken as the general expression of the assembly’s doctrinal convictions, identifying the church with the biblical and historic faith of the Regular or Particular Baptists, commonly called "Calvinistic". The church then being scripturally and duly constituted, extended a unanimous call to Dr. William R. Downing to be their Pastor. The call was willingly and humbly accepted.