Inviting all people to rest in the finished work of Jesus.
In 2024, First Baptist Church Muscatine took a step of faith and hired a church planting resident with a vision of planting a church in Muscatine. In 2026, that vision is becoming a reality as God leads a team to plant Pearl City Church.
Pearl City Church exists to invite all people to rest in the finished work of Jesus. Our vision is to invite people to find rest through repentance and regeneration, recover their identities in community, joyfully return out of the abundance God has given them, and to faithfully reproduce disciples.
Our Values
At Pearl City Church, we want all people to find the soul rest that comes from accepting the free gift of salvation that Jesus offers. We believe that when Jesus died on the cross, He paid the sin debt for all people and rose again to defeat death forever. The Holy Spirit regenerates our hearts, so that we can repent of our sin and find rest in Jesus. All who believe in Jesus’s death and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins can rest in the finished work of Jesus. At Pearl City Church, we practice finding rest by worshiping together weekly, repenting of our sin together and seeing lives transformed by the work of Jesus.
Find rest through repentance and regeneration
At Pearl City Church, we believe that all people were made to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, but sin has distorted our identities. Instead of the peace and life we were made for, we experience pain and death. But through the work of the Holy Spirit, we can recover our identities and start to become the people God made us to be. As we study the Word of God, pray, and confess sin in community, we become more and more like Jesus. At Pearl City Church, we recover our identities by participating in Christian community through community groups and recovery groups.
Learn to recover our identity in community
At Pearl City Church, we believe that God has given an abundance of gifts to all who believe in Him. Whether we have many material gifts in this life or not, we have an abundance of spiritual gifts in this life and even more in the life to come. Out of our gratitude for all that God has given us, we joyfully return out of the abundance God has given us. We give our money, our time, and our spiritual gifts back to God’s Kingdom. At Pearl City Church, we joyfully return our money, time, and spiritual gifts by tithing to our church and volunteering our time to serve our church.
Joyfully return out of the abundance God has given us
At Pearl City Church, we believe in the great commission of Jesus: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20). Jesus calls all believers to make disciples by sharing the gospel and teaching people to follow Jesus. God has chosen to build His Kingdom by using His followers to share the good news of Jesus Christ to all people. At Pearl City Church, we faithfully reproduce disciples by sharing the gospel through personal evangelism, community outreach, leadership development, and discipleship groups.
Faithfully reproduce disciples
Our Beliefs
All Scripture, being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible and inerrant Word of God—the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments—is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks. On this sure foundation, we affirm these additional essentials of our faith.
Ps. 12:6, 19:7, 119:160; Pro. 30:5; Is 40:8; Mt. 4:4, 5:18; Lk. 24:44; Jn. 10:35, 17:17; Rom. 3:4; Tit. 1:2; 2 Tim. 3:16;2 Pet. 1.21; 1 Jn. 1:3-4; Heb. 6:18; 1 Thess. 2:13.
The Word of God
We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons, that these are equal in every divine perfection, and that they execute distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence, and redemption. By His Word, God created all things, including men and women whom He made in his own image and filled with His Spirit. When God rested from His creation, He declared that everything He made was good.
Gen. 1.1, 1:26-28, 17.1; Deut. 6.4-5; Isa. 6.3, 40.28; Ps. 148; Mk. 12.29; Rom. 11.36; 1 Cor. 8.6; Eph. 4.6; Col. 1:15-16; Rev. 1.8, 4.8.
God
God the Father is perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. The Father concerns himself mercifully in the affairs of all people, hears and answers prayer, and saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.
Gen. 1.1; Dan. 4.35; Ps. 148; Mt. 6.9; Rom. 11.36; 1 Cor. 8.6; Eph. 4.6; Rev. 1.8, 4.11, 10.6.
The Father
We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit. He is true God who became true man, united in one person forever. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teachings. We believe in His atoning death on the cross, bodily resurrection on the third day, and His ascension into heaven, where He intercedes for His people at the right hand of the Father. He will personally and visibly return to Earth one day to judge the living and the dead.
Isa. 9.7; Mt. 1.20-23, 24.30, 27.1-2; Mk. 15.24-39; 15.43-47, 16.5-7, 16.19; Lk. 19.10, 24.6-8; Jn. 1.1-3, 1:14, 3.18, 5.22, 6:38, 8.58, 14.9-10, 20.28; Acts 1.3, 1.11, 13.29, 17.31; Rom. 14.9; 2 Cor. 5.10; Eph. 1.19-20; Col. 1.15 -17; 2 Tim. 2.8, 4.1; Heb. 1.3-6, 2.10, 13.12.
The Son
The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, is worshipped and glorified with them, and gives us life. He convicts the world of sin and regenerates, sanctifies, and empowers all people who believe in the finished work of Jesus. The Holy Spirit indwells believers and helps them to repent and recover as they are transformed into the image of Jesus.
Gen. 1.1-2; Num. 11.29; Job 33.4; Ps. 104.30; 139.7-8; Mic. 3.8; Lk. 4.18-19; Jn. 14.16-18, 26, 15.26; Acts 1.1-2, 2.17-18; 1 Cor. 1.2, 2.11; 2 Cor. 13.14; Eph. 4.4-5; Rev. 3.22.
The Holy Spirit
We were created to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Adam and Eve, our first parents, chose to sin against God. Because of their sin, we are by choice and by nature sinners and are thus separated from God and cannot save ourselves from the pains of death and Hell. Our salvation is wholly dependent on the work of God’s free gift of grace. God credits his righteousness to those who put their faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ and justifies them in His sight. Those who have been justified will receive eternal life.
Gen 1:26-28, 3:6-8, 10, 24; Prov. 2:1-5, 8:33-36; Ecc. 7:29; Isa. 55:3; Lam. 3:39; Matt. 15:19, 25:41; 46; Lk. 19.10; Jn 3:16-18, 5:22; Acts 20:21; Rom. 5.8, 5.10-20, 6.9, 23, 10.9; 2 Cor 5:10; Col. 3:10; Gal. 3:10; Eph. 2:1-10, 4:24; Jas. 1:14-15; Heb 13:12.
Salvation
We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. The local church is the visible, yet imperfect, expression of the universal church. In the local church, we find rest through repentance and regeneration, learn to recover our identity in community, joyfully return all that God has given to us, and faithfully reproduce disciples. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to their faith in the final resurrection of the dead. The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, proclaim the death of Jesus and anticipate His second coming. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the local church the primary task of giving the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world. For her perfecting, the universal church awaits the return of her Lord
Matt. 16.18, 28.19; Jn. 3.5-6, 20.22; Acts 22.16; 1 Cor. 1.2, 10.17, 11:23-29; Eph. 2:20, 5.25-28; 1 Tim. 3.15; 1 Pet 3.21.
The Church
We believe that there is coming a day of judgment when all who repent & believe in the finished work of Jesus will be resurrected, made perfect in body and soul, and will live with God forever in Heaven. We believe that on that day all who have not repented and believed in the finished work of Jesus will be judged and will suffer the consequences of sin for eternity in Hell.
Job 19:26-27; Isa. 11.6-10, 57:2; Mic. 4.1-7; Matt. 10:32, 25:23; Luke 18.29-30, 23:43; 1 Cor. 13:12, 15:43; 2 Cor. 5:1, 6, 8; Phil. 1:23; 1 Thess. 4:14, 4:17-18; Heb. 12:23; 1 Jn. 3:2; Rev. 7.9, 21.1-5, 21.22-22.5.
The Last Things
Our Team
Spencer professed faith in Jesus at a young age and felt the call to ministry before he graduated high school. Thinking practically, he decided to pursue a degree in accounting before thinking about ministry. He attended the University of Alabama where he earned a degree in accounting and a master’s in business administration. Ministry felt like something for later in life. Spencer took a job after his master’s in business consulting, moving to Atlanta for a year. God used that job to make it abundantly clear that He was calling Spencer to vocational ministry.
Spencer finally surrendered to the call of God and attended Beeson Divinity School where he earned a Master’s of Divinity. He also met his wife Hannah, and they began a journey towards ministry together.
In 2024, Spencer and Hannah moved to Muscatine in answer to a call from First Baptist Church to plant a church. Spencer loves preaching, deep Bible study, and counseling. His hobbies include playing games, woodworking, playing with his dog, and spending time with friends and family. In 2026, he will become a first time dad! He is grateful for the opportunity to serve Pearl City Church as their pastor and cannot wait to see all that God will do!
Church Planter, Lead Pastor
Church Planter, Ministry Director
Hannah came to know Jesus as a little girl and has been on a journey to know Him more ever since. Part of that journey was earning a degree in secondary education to develop her teaching skills. While at the University of Alabama, Hannah had opportunities to serve local churches in youth and college ministry. God used all those experiences to make it clear that He was calling her to vocational ministry.
After finishing undergrad, Hannah enrolled at Beeson Divinity School. She had no idea what God would do through her time there, but she knew the Lord would grow her faith and ministry skills. At Beeson, she earned her master’s of divinity and, most importantly, met and married Spencer. They knew from the very beginning that they were called to minister together, but that path only became clear when they were called to a church plant residency at First Baptist Church in Muscatine.
Since moving to Muscatine, Hannah has worked alongside Spencer, serving First Baptist and Pearl City Church. She loves teaching, kids’ ministry, and administration. She also teaches dance! And in 2026, she will welcome her first child. Hannah loves reading, writing, baking, crochet, her dog, and loving on her family and friends!