Our Mission

Reconciling Broken People to God to Become Christ’s Healing Hands
( II Corinthians 5:18 )

Our Purposes

Worship – Worshipping the one true God in spirit and truth
Fellowship – Caring for each other with His love
Discipleship – Teaching them all He commanded
Ministry – Serving others in His name
Evangelism – Introducing people to Jesus Christ

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Our Vision

Our vision is to do no less than to change the world
in the name of Jesus Christ

Our Sanctuary Dedication

To claim, to train, and to send forth lives for the Lord Jesus Christ

Our Leadership Values

(These Values are built on the given values of the authority of scripture,
Christian ethics, and the personal Christian disciplines of discipleship)

• The Church is the hope of the world – this church is God’s instrument to change this community
• God is the power of the Church and the leadership of His Spirit is essential to all activity – everything done in the Church must be bathed in prayer
• Believers are gifted to do all of the ministry the Church is supposed to do – every believer in this church has a ministry role
• The responsibility of leaders (especially staff) is to equip believers to perform their ministry – the higher the position in the Church, the greater the equipping responsibility
• Our leadership is best expressed in team environments – leaders must be equipped to build teams and team members
• In a team, value is expressed in interdependence – there are specific roles in teams determined by gifts and responsibility. Leaders lead, teachers teach, administrators administrate, etc.
• To be effective we must strive for honesty in our interactions – this means more than not telling lies. It means lovingly and sensitively telling truth – even hard truth
• Loyalty is a must – we must guard one another’s integrity, and never betray another in words or actions
  
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Our Essential Beliefs

All Scripture is self-attesting, and being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God, the sixty-six 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:

• We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory and praise forever!
• Jesus Christ, the living Word, become flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day, He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.
• The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior. Indwelling our hearts, He gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.
• Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God’s free grace. God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, thereby justifies them in His sight. Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.
• The true church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity; where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she awaits the return of her Lord.
• Jesus Christ will come again to the earth - personally, visibly, and bodily - to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” (Rev. 22:20)
• The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 2:10)

These Essentials are set forth in greater detail in the Westminster Confession of Faith.

In Essentials . . . . . . . . . . Unity

In Non-Essentials . . . . Liberty

In All Things . . . . . . . . . Charity

(“The Essentials” is an official document of the core beliefs of

the Evangelical Presbyterian Church)

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"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, tothe very end of the age."

Matthew 28:19