After a six-month discussion, Trinity's members voted to officially merge their congregants and assets with Vintage, including their historic church building in the heart of Santa Monica. The beautiful white facility includes stained glass windows and an organ, a spacious sanctuary and balcony seating 600 people, 30 classrooms and offices, and a functioning preschool. Renamed Trinity House in honor of its givers, the building is now Vintage Church's second campus. They launched services there on Easter 2015.

"Since the beginning, we have had a heart to multiply campuses across the city, given L.A.'s traffic problem," Jones explains. "To reach local neighborhoods, we needed to form community and eventually presence in those neighborhoods. This is an exciting step toward doing that."

Vintage still occupies its original home in University High School, and Jones travels back and forth to preach, as well as catalyze teams to raise up lay leaders to help with the growth. Since moving into the new building, Vintage has seen more than 700 attendees on a Sunday, as well as an escalation of people giving their lives to Christ. Last Easter Sunday, 35 people made a faith commitment.

"It is so exciting to see the hand of God moving," Jones says. "Who could ever strategize being given a building of this magnitude in the heart of Santa Monica? What an opportunity God has given us to proclaim the gospel in the city!"

To maximize its potential, as well as make the building an administrative and discipleship hub for Vintage, the church recently completed a renovation project on the worship space, ancillary space and buildings. The sanctuary needed new seating, flooring, paint, sound and media infrastructure, lighting and more. Now, ready for a new season, the parish is looking forward to living out its shared vision with Trinity Baptist.

Chalk it up as another miracle in the history of Vintage Church, which Jones says is simply a timeline of miraculous provision.

"We've really relied on the miraculous favor of the Lord," he says. "In every season of our church, we've felt like we had insufficient food for the demands of the ministry--the equivalent of five loaves and two fish. I've often complained that we need more, but God has been gracious and I've been slow to realize that's what He works with--He does the miracle. This building is a testament to that."

Jones' part, he says, is a generous spirit toward other denominations and pastors in his area--what made a kingdom partnership with Trinity Baptist possible in the first place.

"Trinity Baptist did not feel threatened that we were trying to impose our uniqueness on them," he says. "We honored their history and almost 100 years of ministry in the gospel as a Baptist church. Instead of asking them to deny their heritage, we moved forward together."

Learn more at http://www.vintagechurchla.com.