About
A church in the city, for the city.

Canvas started in 2013 with 23 people in a small theater in the Marina. We're committed to being a community where all can belong, grow as followers of Jesus, and live a purpose-filled and fully alive life.

Our story
The short version

In 2013, twenty-three people uprooted their lives and moved to San Francisco with a wild idea: start a church where anyone could belong, no matter what they believed — or didn't.We started in a borrowed theater in the Marina.

Today we're a community of hundreds gathered in the Presidio, still chasing that same wild idea.We're called Canvas because we believe every person is a work of art and an artist at work — and God is inviting all of us to create something beautiful: a masterpiece of love, hope, and faith painted across our lives, our city, and our world.

And honestly? We think God is just getting started.

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our story
A short timeline.
2013
Move to San Francisco
23 people move to San Francisco to be the launch team of Canvas
2013
Launch Sunday
Our first service was October 13th, 2013, at Presidio Theater
2017
Canvas grows
We outgrew our first home and moved down the road to Marina Middle School
2020
The Pandemic
The global pandemic would force Canvas to move online for 70 weeks
2022
Here to stay
We find a longterm home in the Presidio
today
Future so bright
Our vision is bigger than ever for all the future holds.
Our story

How Canvas came to be.

The short version of how a launch team of 23 became a community of hundreds in the Presidio.

2012
Chapter 01 · The Move

23 people move to San Francisco.

A small launch team commits to a city and a vision — a church where anyone could belong, no matter what they believed, or didn't.

2013
Chapter 02 · Launch Sunday

Our first service.

October 13, 2013. The doors of the Presidio Theater open for the first Canvas gathering. The story begins.

2017
Chapter 03 · Canvas grows

We outgrow our first home.

After four years at the Presidio Theater, Canvas packs up and moves down the road to Marina Middle School to make room for everyone showing up.

2020
Chapter 04 · The Pandemic

The doors close. The church doesn't.

The global pandemic forces Canvas online for 70 weeks. We stay together — over screens, in living rooms, in a long stretch of waiting that didn't break us.

2022
Chapter 05 · Here to stay

A long-term home in the Presidio.

Canvas finds the place we'd been hoping for since the beginning — a real building, in the neighborhood we love, for the long haul.

Today
Chapter 06 · What's next

The future is bigger than ever.

Hundreds gather each Sunday in the Presidio. We're continuing to show up and serve our neighbors. The next chapter is being written right now.

Meet the team

The people behind Canvas.

The pastors and leaders who shape Sunday mornings, midweek groups, and the whole life of our community. Click their image to learn a little bit more about them.

meet the team
Pastors and staff.
Travis Clark
co-lead pastor
Jena Clark
co-lead pastor
Ethan Larios
Worship pastor
Lydia Cruz
Next Step coordinator