Liberti Church Main Line….

….was born with the hope of starting a church that would be for Philadelphia’s Main Line: that would love the Main Line, seek to serve its communities, and would be a place in which people unfamiliar with Christianity could explore the reality of Jesus in a way that made sense.

In exploring how God was at work across the Philadelphia region, a small group of praying families from the Main Line connected with leaders from the young church plant in Center City that was part of the Liberti Network of churches, and who encouraged partnership with them.  Liberti Church Center City had begun worship services in March of 2009, and after several years of growth, began seeing a number of people come to the Center City worship service from the neighborhoods along the Main Line.  So, in January of 2012, the church launched a campus on the Main Line in an effort to create a presence in the Main Line that was accessible to friends and neighbors interested in exploring Christian faith, and to continue its commitment to connecting people to each other in neighborhood-based community.  In March of 2012, Liberti's Main Line campus began worship services at Rosemont College. 

For seven years, until Sept 2019, Liberti Church Center City & Main Line worked together as a multi-campus church to reach the communities of Center City and the Main Line.  In God’s graciousness, in September 2014, Liberti was able to purchase the beautiful First Baptist Church building located in the heart of Center City at 17th and Sansom, through the partnership of its congregants in both Center City and the Main Line.  Since then Liberti’s leadership worked to renovate the space which will continue to house two congregations (Liberti Center City and the original First Baptist congregation), more support groups than any other facility in Philadelphia, including the Philadelphia Classical School and a number of mercy ministries such as Emmanuel Ministry to the homeless.

God has been generously gracious to both Liberti campuses in these first years of its life, and there’s been much development, growth, and change along the way.  As part of that development and growth, Liberti’s leadership decided in September 2019 to work toward organizing both a Liberti Church Center City and a Liberti Church Main Line as separate sister churches.  The goal of moving from a multi-campus church to two partnering sister churches was out of the desire to further and more effectively pursue, in each community, the vision of being a Church that loves and serves its people and its community the way God does.