Our Story

In 2004 a group of students and alum from Montreat College began meeting in a Black Mountain tavern called the Watershed for worship on Sunday mornings in hopes of reaching people not likely to darken the doors of your average church. They called this little movement of the Gospel Isight.  Montreat Presbyterian Church [also of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church] generously and graciously agreed to support Isight with oversight, prayer, and finances. 

In the Summer of 2007 Isight called its first pastor, Joshua Schatzle, himself a Montreat alum, who, at the time, was in Bakersfield, CA helping to launch a church plant there. At that time the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of the Mid-Atlantic ordained Josh, received Isight into their network of churches as an organizing church and agreed to financially support it until it grew into maturity.

Since that time Isight has undergone a host of changes as it continues to grow up into its own church.  We met for a time at the Manor House/In the Oaks of Montreat College's Black Mountain campus, but then moved to the campus of the Presbyterian Home for Children in Black Mountain, where we are now, a  group foster care program with whom Isight has enjoyed a great ministry relationship. 

Our community is made up of mostly young parents and their children, singles, college students, a few empty-nesters, and the kids and staff of the Presbyterian Home for Children.  We still strive to include and invite into Jesus and His church people who wouldn't expect that they belong here, but we also of course want to be a body that those who have journeyed with Christ and have a missional desire can really find themselves at home in.  We hope that you might find Isight to be a home for you as well.