Our Origin Story
In 2014, Bob & Jenny Donnelly moved to West Linn, Oregon.
With an unfinished barn on their property and a community center next door, they had no idea that these spaces would very soon hold a church family.
The barn, originally built around 1905, was unfinished, so the Donnellys restored it to be used for business meetings and worship gatherings. A few months after it was completed, the nudge to start the church came, and the barn became the best place to meet.
The first-ever informational meeting of the Collective Church was on December 6, 2015.
A group of people continued to meet weekly, but the meetings remained "closed." The Lord gave us specific instructions to identify our fears and insecurities and to seek his heart and vision for this church. He walked us through deeper healing, nurtured the call on our lives, and helped us establish the unique DNA of our church.
We held our first open service in March of 2016.
For years before the church's inception, a group of long-standing friends met in each other's homes to worship and pray together. Even though the gatherings were powerful, the original intent was never to start a church — but God was setting up a church behind the scenes.
Many years later, the Rose and Donnelly families each heard the distinct call of God to officially establish this community as The Collective Church. Brant Colella came alongside as the worship leader and The Collective Church was born.
After seven months, we were miraculously offered a building lease from an owner who had his building for sale.
He felt the Lord tell him to offer it as a lease for us and to remove it from the market. This became another miracle, and God was once again making all the details work out. We are so grateful to the owners and managers of Vigilant in Portland.
In October of 2016, we kicked off our first service in the new building with a conference called "One Church."
We spent eight amazing years in that setup before the owners of the building came to us and offered that we could take over the whole building. In 2022, we began a remodel project to create more space for those who wish to call the Collective Church their family.
