The Father's House was founded in 1997 when Steve and Vicki Orsillo were called to leave their thriving Sacramento construction business and bring their young family to the last place they had considered settling in—Oroville, California. At the time, Southside was an infamously dark area known for high levels of poverty and drug and alcohol abuse. Seeking God to find out what spiritual power had bound the city, Steve heard "selfishness". Determined to come in the opposite spirit, selflessness, the Father's House began a 20-year journey of community transformation.

The vision of the Father's House Church is to bring light to Oroville, to make it impossible to get to hell from Oroville.