About The Place

Our Mission

The mission of all of us at The Place is to become disciples of Jesus, intimately in love with God; and expressing His love in creative service, witness and fellowship.

Our Vision

The Place is a community of believers who are devoted to Jesus Christ and to one another. We are growing together into maturity as followers of Jesus. We are seeking to be intimately in love with our God. We are striving to express His love creatively in all we do - whether in worship together, in witness to our community, and in fellowship with one another. Our vision is to be a place where God is magnified and people are committed to growing together in their relationships with Jesus.

Our Beliefs

The Place is a Christian community that is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. We believe in Jesus Christ and his love for us as expressed in his life, death, and resurrected life. And, in that hope of a new life in Jesus and eternity with Him, we believe that together we can encourage one another and lift each other up daily as we grow into mature disciples of Jesus. As disciples, our desire is to creatively communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to our community.

More on Seventh-day Adventist Beliefs (PDF)

History

The Place began as a contemporary service option for youth at the Thousand Oaks Seventh-day Adventist Church. After rapidly outgrowing the dining room, The Place occupied a temporary building on the grounds of the TO church. Later, we moved to our own building in Newbury Park. In April 2005, we moved just down the street to a larger space, which we share with Vineyard Community Church. The Place is one of the fastest growing churches in the Southern California conference with Saturday services just under 200 attendees and almost 400 regular attendees.

Schedule and Location

We meet every Saturday. Bible Study for all ages begins at 10:30 AM and services start at 11:30 AM.

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Our Pastors

Simon Liversidge, Senior Pastor

Pastor Simon was born in Australia and grew up in a missionary family in New Guinea. He moved with his family to the United States, and graduated from Shenandoah Valley Academy in Virginia. He graduated from Andrews University with a B.A. in Psychology and French, and then obtained a J. D. from UCLA school of Law in 1992. He practiced as an attorney doing corporate litigation for three years before entering the ministry. He completed his Master of Divinity degree from the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. Simon then served as an Associate Pastor at Norwalk Seventh-day Adventist Church, where he was also involved in a church plant in West Los Angeles. Pastor Liversidge was ordained on September 14, 2002. He and Cecilia were married on October 13, 2002 at the Eagle Rock Church. Their son, Liam, was born in 2004 and their beautiful daughter, Mia, was born January 2007.

Pastor: Simon Liversidge (805) 498-2300

Steve Carlson, Associate Pastor

Pastor Steve Carlson is our youth pastor, young adult pastor, part-time worship leader, Academy religion teacher, small group leader and new Californian. He and his wife Daisy joined The Place in July 2007. They join us from Campion Academy (home of the Campion Cougars!) in Loveland, Colorado. Steve attended Union College ('04). After school, Steve served as the youth and young adult pastor at Denver First Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was raised in Lodi, California (like our very own Jennifer Lew!) and loves to golf, surf, travel, and be bald.

 

Pastor: Steve Carlson (805) 657-6979

Our Adventist Schools

Our Adventist schools are known for their high expectations; the vast majority of students who are educated in the K-12 system of Southern California Adventist schools complete twelfth grade with achievement scores in the 90th percentile and above, receive college or university degrees, enter service-oriented professions. The greatest evidence may be, however, that we provide our children an Adventist education once we become parents ourselves.

The Place supports two local Adventist schools--Conejo Adventist Elementary School (CAES) in Newbury Park, which offers Kindergarten thru Eighth grade. We also support Newbury Park Adventist Academy, a coeducational day high school for grades 9 to 12.

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