MISSION: OUR CHARGE
Our mission aligns our hearts and actions to a shared purpose. Our mission leads us to obey God’s command to love God and go love people.
WE REACH HIGH, WIDE, AND DEEP TO SHARE CHRIST’S LOVE.
VISION: OUR CALLING
Our vision is what God is calling us to become. It is where God’s love is leading us, and it is God’s preferred future for our lives and the life of our church.
TO BE FILLED WITH ALL THE LIFE AND POWER THAT COMES FROM GOD.
DISCIPLESHIP PATHWAY: OUR COMMITMENT
Our discipleship pathway is our steps to becoming more committed followers of Jesus as we fulfill our mission and vision.
REACH HIGH: Live a life of worship and prayer.
We will lead people to become Spirit-filled worshippers of God wholeheartedly devoted to Him in prayer.
REACH WIDE: Live a life of invitation and reconciliation.
We will invite our neighbors, share our faith, and reconcile people to God and each other.
REACH DEEP: Live a life of service and generosity.
We will use our talents and give our resources to strengthen the church for the mission of Jesus.
Core Values: Our Core
Our values shape our customs and habits so that we can do what matters most.
WORSHIP: We will create worship full experiences for the gathered church.
INVITATION: We will invite others to join us in the resurrected life of Jesus.
SERVICE: We will use our talents and spiritual gifts to serve others.
PRAYER: We will devote ourselves to praying continually.
RECONCILIATION: We will bring all people together with God and each other.
GENEROSITY: We will give our tithes and offerings to support the mission of Jesus.
BASIC BELIEFS: OUR CENTER
Our basic beliefs are grounded in the word of God and are the “why” behind what we do.
THE TRIUNE GOD
We believe in a God so great and complex that He is beyond our comprehension. We accept Scripture’s revelation that He is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 3:16-17)
THE CREATOR GOD
We believe that this great and all-powerful God, out of his great love, created all that exists and that this world is God’s special creation. We believe that we bear our Creator’s image and accept our role to care for our home. (Genesis 1:1)
THE LOVE OF GOD || KEYSTONE BELIEF
We believe that God loves us even though we are fallen and tarnished by sin. We believe in the God who runs to us, for his purpose has always been to redeem us back to Himself. Because God first loved us, we seek to fulfill the greatest command to love God and love people. (John 3:16)
THE SON OF GOD
We believe that at the right time, God the Son came in the flesh to bring to a climax the redemption promised in Israel’s story. This Son is Jesus, the Messiah. (John 1:14)
THE SACRIFICE OF GOD
We believe that Jesus’ death on the cross was at the very heart of God’s purpose, and through His death, we are redeemed to be God’s holy people. (1 Peter 2:24-25)
THE RESURRECTION OF GOD
We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and because He was raised, we too shall be raised with Him to live forever. (1 Peter 1:3)
THE SALVATION OF GOD
We believe that we are saved by God’s grace and not by anything we have done. We also believe that this grace calls those who trust in Jesus to serve Him so that God’s Kingdom might exist on earth as it does in heaven. We are not just saved from our sins; we are saved to serve. (Ephesians 2:8-10)
THE SPIRIT OF GOD
We believe that God reveals himself through the sending of his promised Holy Spirit. We believe that, in Christ, we are empowered, gifted, and sent by God’s Spirit to be shaped into the likeness of Jesus and to lead others into his presence. (Acts 1:8)
THE MISSION OF GOD
We believe that God has a mission to bless all people. Beginning with Israel, God has called his people to be a light unto the nations. We are to participate in God’s mission of making followers of Jesus, inviting them to be baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching them to live a life of obedience to Him. (Matthew 28:18-19)
THE PEOPLE OF GOD
We believe that we are given each other to be a church, a family, and the body of Jesus. We believe that we are not the only Christians, and we long to be Christians only and at one with His people everywhere. Because of Jesus, God’s renewed and redeemed people come from every nationality and ethnicity. (Galatians 3:26-29)
THE WORD OF GOD
We believe that God reveals himself through the Bible. We believe the Bible is inspired by God and penned by his Holy prophets to help lead us to salvation through faith in Jesus and be equipped to do every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
THE COVENANT OF GOD
We believe that a covenant is an agreement between God and humankind in which God promises salvation to those who put their faith in Jesus. We believe that baptism and communion are in obedience to the new agreement between God and man and are practiced in a relationship with Him. We believe that Jesus established the Lord’s Supper (communion) during his final Passover meal with his disciples and proclaimed that to drink of the cup, the fruit of the vine, was to remember his bloodshed on the cross - a sign of the new covenant. We believe we are to take communion as often as we gather to “do this in remembrance” of Jesus. We choose to remember Jesus’ crucifixion, his death, burial, and resurrection. Likewise, Jesus was immersed in water (baptism), representing his death, burial, and resurrection. He taught his disciples to make more followers by baptizing them in water and into a saving relationship with the Father. We believe that those baptized are raised to a newness of life, the old ways are gone, and the new ways have come. (Luke 22:19-20; Mark 1:9; Romans 6:3-4)
OUR GUIDING PRAYER
Pause. Take a moment to read aloud and pray this prayer. Slow down and focus your heart and mind on the highlighted sentences. How would the fullness of God’s love and power do immeasurably more for you than you ask or imagine?
For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.
– The Apostle Paul, Ephesians 3:14-21 (NIV)
