Where faith meets everyday life.
The Life Center was born from a simple belief: the Church should be a place where faith meets everyday life.
We believe ministry happens not only on Sunday mornings, but wherever people are trying to build stronger families, raise healthy children, find meaningful work, care for aging parents, overcome difficult seasons, strengthen relationships, and create a better future.
That is why The Life Church created The Life Center, a 12,000-square-foot community resource center designed to serve the spiritual, social, relational, and practical needs of individuals and families throughout Riverside and the Inland Empire.
The Life Center is more than a building. It is a place of connection, compassion, opportunity, and hope.
Loving our neighbor requires more than words.
Jesus taught us that loving our neighbor requires more than words. It means seeing people, walking alongside them, and responding to the real needs they experience every day.
At The Life Center, we want people to encounter a Church that not only asks, “How can we pray for you?” but is also willing to ask, “How can we help?”
- Sometimes that help looks like groceries for a family experiencing hardship.
- Sometimes it is helping someone prepare for employment, purchase their first home, or learn how to manage their finances.
- Sometimes it is providing a safe place for children and young people to learn and grow.
- Sometimes it is creating community for an older adult who feels isolated.
- Sometimes it is counseling, encouragement, education, advocacy, or simply having someone willing to walk alongside you during a difficult season.
Whatever the need, our desire is to help people discover that they do not have to do life alone.
Five Pathways. One Mission.
Together, these pathways allow us to meet people where they are while helping them move toward where they want to be.
We were never meant to do this alone.
The vision for The Life Center is bigger than any one church, organization, or individual. We believe some of the greatest challenges facing our community can be addressed when faith communities, schools, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, businesses, healthcare providers, foundations, and caring individuals decide to work together.
The Life Center is designed to be a place where those partnerships can happen. We are not interested in duplicating the good work already taking place throughout our community. We want to connect it.
- We want organizations with resources to meet families who need them.
- We want professionals with expertise to share what they know.
- We want businesses to invest in the communities they serve.
- We want volunteers to discover meaningful ways to use their gifts.
- We want people who have been blessed to have an opportunity to become a blessing to someone else.
And we want The Life Center to become a place where our entire community can come together around one simple idea:
Life gets better when we do it together.
There is a place for you in this vision.
The Life Center is not simply something we are building for the community. It is something we are building with the community.
Whether you represent a corporation, nonprofit organization, government agency, school, healthcare organization, foundation, congregation, or neighborhood, or you are simply someone who believes in helping people, we invite you to become part of this work.
- You can partner with us.
- You can volunteer.
- You can provide resources.
- You can sponsor a program.
- You can teach a workshop.
- You can mentor a young person.
- You can support a family.
- You can invest financially.
- You can bring your organization, expertise, relationships, and ideas to the table.
Together, we can create a place where families are strengthened, young people are launched, seniors are valued, people are empowered, neighbors are cared for, and hope becomes something people can experience, not simply something we talk about.
This is The Life Center.
Where Faith Meets Everyday Life.
Helping People Do Life Better…Together.