South Bay Vineyard began as a God planted dream in the Fall of 2006. Duke and Marie Lancaster and their close friends Chris and Jan Self began to sense a strong pull toward San Diego and in early 2007 presented the vision for a new church to their pastor in Jackson, Mississippi. Roughly one year later, with the Jackson Vineyard Church's blessing, a team of seven people* relocated across the country.

Meetings began very quickly with weekly home groups starting in April of 2008. The vision for a church that impacts its community through radical acts of service, that accepts people wherever they are and allows them to pursue God at their own pace, that expects the living God to demonstrate his compassion and his love through supernatural demonstrations... this vision has driven South Bay Vineyard.

We launched public services on September 14th, 2008.

* Duke and Marie Lancaster, Heath Lancaster, Chris and Jan Self, Austin Joy, Laura Katherine Logan