About Us

Westminster History

In 1957, ninety-five faithful dreamers planted the seed and leaned into God's calling to be a Presbyterian presence in southern Marin County. Over the fifty-plus years, six installed pastors, two-dozen interns, five parish associates and hundreds of elders and deacons have guided the congregation. Today we are harvesting the crop that members and pastors tended, and we are continuing to see and nurture the spiritual soil entrusted to us by Christ.

Westminster Presbyterian Church (WPC) was chartered on June 2, 1957 with 95 members and Rev. Forrest Youngquist as pastor. Sunday services were held in burlap-lined quarters over Herbert's Sherbet Shop on Tiburon Boardwalk. Children attended Sunday School in two Northwest Pacific railroad cars. In 1961, the congregation celebration the transition to the current location with a small sanctuary, classrooms and offices. It was thirty years later, in 1991, when a beautiful new sanctuary seating 300 was blessed and became home to a growing congregation.

 

We've Come a Long Way

In 1957, the lucky children attended Sunday School in two Northwest Pacific railroad cars in the train yard that was Tiburon. Below see Bill Bigelow in his RR hat!