OUR PASTOR
Pastor Rex Louth
Pastor Rex and his family moved to Colorado Springs in January, 1989, holding their first services at, then, Bijou Street Church of God on February 5th. Pastor Rex and his wife, Janet, were pastors of the Bluffton Church of God in Indiana for seven and a half years before hearing the call of God to Colorado, holding their first services as pastor and wife September 27, 1981. Pastor Rex celebrates his 40th year of pastoring in 2021.
Pastor Rex completed his Master of Divinity in May, 2023. He is actively involved in the study and presentation of the sciences, history, and prophetic activity of the Word of God. The Bible comes alive with fresh insight as those involved with him in studies discuss and observe the magnitude of God's work throughout the centuries of known history.
Pastor Rex published "God Shed His Grace On Thee" in November, 2014. This is a book outlining the Christian foundations of the establishment of the United States of America, where the nation has left its origins, and how each of us may become involved to bring it back to where it was intended to be.
OUR CHURCH
Pastor Ron Smith and his family came to Colorado Springs in January, 1976 to establish a church. They sold all they had and moved from their home in Ohio to carve out the ministry under God's direction. With the assistance of the Church of God General Offices on the down payment, the Bijou Street location was secured, after a time which the family had secured a store front building to hold initial services. Pastor Smith was followed by Demps Overcash as pastor.
Bijou Street Church of God was officially organized on Sunday, April 16, 1978. Since its organization the church has had five senior pastors. D.E. Corley (2yrs), David Sutton (2yrs), David Parham (5yrs), Jimmy Skinner (2yrs), and Rex Louth (35yrs-Current). The church's name was changed to Peakview Church of God in 1990. In addition, Pastor Mary Detsch served as Associate Pastor from 2016 until June of 2024 when she and her husband were called to serve on the Western Slope, where she continues to bring Bible Studies of divine insight on her YouTube and Facebook channels.
The church is part of the Church of God with international headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee. We are not merely a congregation of believers, but a part of the living body of Christ, commissioned to impact our world with the truth.
Peakview Church of God is a body of believers committed to reaching out to all the world with the truth taught by Jesus in fulfillment of the Old Testament and expressed in the New Testament of the Bible. Beginning in our local communities, and reaching to our city, state, nation and beyond, we proclaim the full gospel of Christ through various means, to all ages and races, in showing everyone the one way to heaven through faith in Jesus Christ: His death on the cross, burial, resurrection and ascension.