History of Lakeview Community Church

(As of April 2009)

Lakeview Community Church was started in 1988 by a group of people from Faith Bible Church in DeSoto, TX, meeting at the home of then-Dallas Theological Seminary student, Dave Stevens, and his wife Cathy. There were about six couples who joined together to make Dave’s idea of planting a smaller outreach church in nearby Cedar Hill become a reality, and they met together for about six months before moving into a rented church building on US 67 near Pleasant Run Road. Suggestions for naming the new church were submitted by members of the group and a name chosen honoring the new lake under construction adjacent to Cedar Hill.

A generous friend of the young church donated a large parcel of land on Mt. Lebanon Road in Cedar Hill, enabling the group to construct the present building and moved into it early in 1991.

Dave Stevens pastored Lakeview for five years, and then he and his family returned to the east coast. A pastor search committee found and invited Steve and Tricia Thompson. Steve and Tricia also stayed at Lakeview for five years before moving to Hawaii. In 1999 the building was enlarged with the addition of three classrooms.

Pastor Paul Kozar, his wife Pam, and their children Matt and Elizabeth were welcomed to Lakeview 10 years ago.