We are here because of the good news of Jesus Christ.
We are sinners who have been rescued from sin by Jesus Christ. Though we have different backgrounds, ethnicities, opinions, and personalities, we find commonality in the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We gather each week to worship the one true God revealed in the Bible. We're grateful for the privilege He has given us to worship, live, and serve in our local community.
We rely on God's grace to give us true unity to function together as one body in Jesus Christ, submitted to Christ and his Word and committed to living that Word out in our daily lives.
Who We Are
We are striving to be a body of spiritually growing people who give the people in our community repeated opportunities to see, hear, and respond to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Our Story
Bridge City Church exists because of God's faithfulness through local churches. Our story begins before our launch in 2026…
In 2014 Christ Fellowship Church planted Ridgewood Church, sending people, resources, and leaders to establish a new congregation committed to making disciples. Through the years, God has used Ridgewood to reach people with the gospel, strengthen our community, and serve the Upstate.
As Ridgewood grew, it remained committed to the conviction that healthy churches should multiply. Rather than simply gathering more people into one place, Ridgewood sought to send people out for the sake of the gospel. That commitment led to prayerful conversations about planting a church in the Taylors and Paris Mountain area, where many people remain disconnected from faithful gospel-preaching churches.
In 2026, Ridgewood Church sent a team to establish Bridge City Church. We are grateful to stand in a line of churches that have been planted and sent out for the sake of the gospel, and we pray that God will continue this story of his faithfulness through us.
What to Expect
We’re thrilled to welcome you to our church! This is a place to experience God's grace.
Let us show you what to expect when you visit so you feel right at home. We hope you'll take a moment to meet some of the great people here after the service and if you wish you can fill out a connection card and we’ll follow up with you later.
What Time are Your Services and Where do You Gather?
Our morning worship service begins at 10:00 a.m. at 418 E. Main St., Taylors, SC 29687. We have plenty of parking.
What Should I Wear?
We have a diversity of people attend our services and are thankful for a congregation with a variety of dress. You'll find anything from very casual jeans and t-shirts to business casual. We encourage you to come as you are.
What Can I Expect from Your Services?
Whether you are looking for a new church home or are exploring Christianity for the first time, expect to be greeted by warm smiles from people genuinely excited to meet you. We’re thrilled you’d choose to spend your Sunday morning with us. Stop by the welcome table, grab a cup of coffee, and find a seat!
The goal of our morning service is simple: Bring glory to God in response to his grace towards sinners like us in the person and work of Jesus Christ! To that end, we do four things when we gather:
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We sing God’s Word – We sing a blend of lyrically rich songs both recent and historic. Those of us who are comfortable with music from one particular era have discovered that we come to enjoy other songs we had not previously encountered. We strongly prefer congregational singing, which emphasizes the gathered body enthusiastically singing praise to God with one voice. Some Sundays we sing with piano, guitar, and drums, and other services may use just piano or guitar accompaniment. Our musicians keep the accompaniment light to amplify the sound of God’s people singing as the main “instrument” heard during musical worship.
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We pray God’s Word – The God of the universe has spoken to us in Scripture and invites us to speak to him through prayer. Prayer is a way we express our gratitude to and dependence on the Lord.
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We hear God’s Word – Preaching at Bridge City is generally expositional, meaning that it seeks to systematically work through passages of Scripture, declaring the point of a particular Biblical passage, with practical application rooted in the redemptive story of Scripture. Our sermon series regularly alternate between the Old and New Testaments. All preaching is driven by the Gospel, the Bible’s main message of God saving sinners through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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We see God’s Word – Baptism and the Lord’s Supper were given to the church by Jesus for the purpose of marking out his people from the world and encouraging those gathered with gospel hope. We take the Lord’s Supper weekly and non-members are welcome to partake if they are baptized members in good standing at another gospel-preaching church.
Is Childcare Available?
We encourage all parents to train their children to worship as part of the church, and you are more than welcome to keep your children with you during our services. However, we do offer childcare for the entirety of the morning service for children six months through three years old. We also offer age-appropriate programming for children four years old through 2nd grade during the sermon.
All of our children’s ministry volunteers are members of the church who have gone through training and an approval process complete with a background check.
Don't See Your Question?
Send us an email at info@bridgecitygreenville.org, and we will follow up as soon as possible. We hope to see you on a Sunday soon!
Meet the Team
Joshua Pegram
Lead Pastor
About Joshua…
Joshua grew up in Taylors, SC, and loves the Greenville area. He and his wife, Liz, have three children, and he and his family have lived in VA and IL. They are grateful the Lord led them back to the Greenville area in 2023, when they joined their sending church, Ridgewood Church in Greer. He works for a K12 tech company, loves hanging out with people, and enjoys getting the chance to travel with his family a time or two a year. He earned his M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary and is completing his Ph.D. through Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
What do you love about serving at Bridge City?
I love any excuse to hang with my church family. And serving is an awesome excuse. :)
What do you do when you are not serving?
Spend time with family & friends, read, and work out.
Favorite book?
Christian living: Knowing God by J.I. Packer
Biography: Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
General leadership: BE 2.0
What’s something people might be surprised to learn about you?
I am a champion armadillo racer.
Jacob Whitt
Ministry Director
About Jacob…
Jacob Whitt grew up in Greenwood, SC, but is proud to call Taylors home. He met his wife, Emily, when they both attended North Greenville University. After spending some time in NC and GA, Jacob and Emily moved back to the Greenville area in 2025 shortly before welcoming their daughter, Felicity. Jacob works for a missions non-profit, loves spending time with friends and family, and drinks way too much coffee.
What do you love about serving at Bridge City?
It’s always a joy to be able to serve others as a reflection of what Christ has done for me!
What do you do when you are not serving?
Reading, cooking, or catching a Panthers or Braves game with friends.
Favorite book?
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
What’s something people might be surprised to learn about you?
Possibly my greatest life accomplishment is that someone named their dog after me.
Dillon Temples
Elder
About Dillon…
My wife Bri have been married and lived in the Upstate since 2014 and are proud to call the Greenville area home. We have twin toddler boys, Troy and Tucker, who keep us busy, laughing, and constantly learning. I’m passionate about seeing people deepen their love for God’s Word and walk closely with Christ in everyday life. Our local church is more than just a church home for us - it’s truly a family that we’re grateful to serve and grow with.
What do you love about serving at Bridge City?
I love being part of a community that genuinely cares about people’s souls and desires to see every believer grow in maturity and love for Christ. There’s something special about watching God work through ordinary people to do extraordinary things together.
What do you do when you are not serving?
I love spending time with Bri and our boys, road-tripping to different college football stadiums, hosting the occasional "Lord of the Rings" marathon, and hacking my way through a round of golf - usually spending more time searching for balls than hitting them.
Favorite book?
One book that has had the greatest impact in the last couple years is: The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer.
What’s Something People Might Be Surprised To Learn About You?
I can ride a unicycle - though these days, chasing twin toddlers feels like enough of a balancing act on its own.
What We Believe
Christ-Centered Worship
We worship the Father, Son, and Spirit through the blood of Jesus Christ. Because Christ is worthy of worship, we engage in vibrant, intentional, unified, Christ-centered corporate worship according to God’s Word. Because we believe that the worship of the gathered church should be corporate, not individual, we see every aspect of our gathered worship as an act that the entire congregation joins in, rather than observes. We read the Word, pray the Word, sing the Word, see the Word (in baptism and the Lord’s Supper), and preach the Word.
Life-on-Life Discipleship
The Church grows as one life touches another life with the Word of God. We believe in committed church membership—a covenant commitment lived out by being active and present in worship and discipleship under the authority of a local church. The gathering of the church is true fellowship. We encourage spiritually intentional relationships over programmatic discipleship and see disciple-making as a normal part of the Christian life.
Sufficiency of Scripture
God’s Word is enough. We are committed to God’s “ordinary means” of sanctifying grace because God works through his Word by the power of his Spirit. In other words, God ordinarily works through his prescribed methods outlined in his Word, so time in the Word is the center of our discipleship. We prioritize the Word in building a culture of discipleship. We believe in the ordinary methods of Word, prayer, sacrament, and the community of the body of Christ. Sometimes we call this “Word, prayer, people, patience.”
Gospel-Centered Living
The gospel is the power of God for all of life. The gospel changes everything about us—the way we relate to each other, to God, and to our community. So we seek to have the gospel at the center of our life as a church and to model that by highlighting the power of the gospel in every message. We believe in true conversion—repentance and faith—and in regenerate church membership. We emphasize this through believer’s baptism and the regular practice of the Lord’s Supper with the visible body of Christ.
Spirit-Empowered Ministry
God’s Spirit works today. God’s Spirit works according to God’s design and God’s will, so we believe in the necessity and power of prayer. We must be praying Christians and a praying church. We speak God’s truth from God’s Word and ask God’s Spirit to open eyes to his Word. The Spirit is powerfully at work in and through the church today, and we can’t accomplish anything eternal apart from the Spirit’s power. He gifts people for ministry. Ordinary preaching and teaching by ordinary people is God’s means of working through his Word. Our confidence is therefore in God’s Word and God’s Spirit, not our techniques or strategies.
Global Mission
We make disciples of all peoples, believing in the power of the gospel to reconcile us to God and one another. Global missions is central to our mission as a church, and it’s more than simply outsourcing the work of the gospel to others. We engage in simple evangelism: pray; meet people; tell them about Jesus, seeking to make every part of our lives hospitable and gospel-focused. We prioritize equipping and mobilizing disciples, rather than attractional events, and we love our community and seek to be welcoming to outsiders. We seek strategic partnerships with people advancing the gospel around the globe. God advances his work through his gathered people, the church, so we prioritize establishing, growing, and strengthening local churches.