Welcome to The Peace Church

We are a multicultural United Methodist Church with campuses in Milpitas and San Jose, and we are committed to sharing God’s love, growing in faith, and serving our community. Whether you are exploring faith for the first time or looking for a church home, we would love to welcome you.

Our Vision
To be a place where Christians share God’s love, teach Biblical principles, and reach out to the community.
What to Expect

At The Peace Church, you can expect a warm and faith-centered community focused on loving, serving, and connecting. The church offers worship, children’s ministry, youth ministry, family ministry, sermons, and community programs.

Our Mission

Based on our understanding, we, the Peace United Methodist Church, commit to the following principles:

  1. Sharing the good news of God’s grace to everyone by exemplifying Jesus’ command to love God and neighbor.
  2. Providing meaningful and spiritual rewarding worship experience and discipleship program through education, witness, and outreach.
  3. Making a difference in the lives of our members and people in our communities.
Our Supporting Goals
  1. “The Church Worshipping” (Spirituality – Welcoming)
  2. “The Church Giving” (Stewardship & Christian Living – Nurturing)
  3. “The Church Teaching” (Christian Education – Nurturing-Equipping)
  4. “The Church Reaching” (Evangelism, Missions, and Outreach – Sending out)
  5. “The Church Growing” (Personal and Community Development – Welcoming, nurturing, Equipping, & Sending Out)
Our Beliefs
We are a congregation of The United Methodist Church.

As part of the UMC, we share in its beliefs, doctrine, and mission. To learn more about United Methodist beliefs and teachings, please visit the official United Methodist Church website.

What UMC Believes
Our Leadership
Church Council
Our Pastor
Rev. Charles Tran

Rev. Charles Tran was born in Vietnam and came to the United States as a refugee in 1980 after several failed escape attempts following the fall of Saigon. Though he attended Roman Catholic school as a child, he was baptized in California in the late 1980s. He studied at California State University, Long Beach, worked in electrical engineering for 14 years, and later felt called to missions.

In 2009, he was commissioned by the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church and served for six years in Southeast Asia, focusing on ministry among migrant workers and refugees. In 2013, he returned to San Jose to re-plant the Vietnamese Fellowship United Methodist Church, which became Peace United Methodist Church in 2016. He now serves as Senior Pastor of Peace United Methodist Church and has also held leadership roles within the California-Nevada Annual Conference and the Vietnamese National Caucus of The United Methodist Church.