The Door Christian Fellowship Church in Tempe was birthed in revival in October, 1974.

With weekly ‘Concert Outreaches’ on both Friday and Saturday nights attracting hundreds of people, scores of new believers banded together sharing a new hope and new life in Jesus Christ. Within a few months key people had formed the foundation of a new church!

But the story really begins in Prescott, Arizona.

Several years earlier, a similar revival had touched a little church in Prescott, Arizona. The ‘Jesus People Movement’ was sweeping America and multitudes of young people were being profoundly saved and converted to Christ. While many of the traditional churches closed their doors to the long haired, denim clad ‘hippies’, Pastor Wayman Mitchell received them with open arms.

Pastor Mitchell’s solid grounding in the Word of God and his passion to take the Gospel into all the world was soon imparted in to the hearts of many zealous new converts. In a short few years, several young couples were launched into surrounding cities to pioneer new churches.

In 1974, one of those couples was sent to Tempe to begin a new church, following the pattern that had been set in Prescott, Arizona. From the beginning the emphasis was Evangelism, Discipleship, Church Planting, and World Evangelism.

33 years later, that church planted in Tempe, AZ has grown to nearly 300 faithful members and has in turn planted dozens of couples around the world!