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Our Mission   

We desire all people to have a vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ, intentionally climbing to new heights of understanding while serving and caring for one another as we journey in faith together.

Our Vision

•  To build a church where the hurting, the lost, and the broken can come to find the truth about life and how to handle life's issues

• To tell people in our local area and abroad of the truth of Jesus Christ and the eternal life that He promises to those who know Him as Savior

•  To encourage and develop people to spiritual maturity through bible studies, small groups, outreach seminars and relevant, transformational teaching

• To enable every believer to understand his/her individual purpose and giftedness and be released to use their divinely given purpose to change the world for His glory

•  To use the church and all its God-given resources to revitalize those hurting and struggling with life issues

Our Doctrinal Statement

We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men and the Divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life.   

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.  He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the scriptures.  Further, 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 Advocate.

We believe that the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict men, regenerate the believing sinner, indwell, guide, instruct and empower the believer for godly living and service. 

We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe, and only such as receive Jesus Christ become children of God.

We believe that the Lord’s Supper and water baptism are ordinances to be observed by the Church during the present age.  They are, however, not to be regarded as a means of salvation. 

We believe that the sign gifts (e.g. tongues, interpretation of tongues, revelatory prophecy, gifts of healing) have ceased with the closing of the canon (I Corinthians 13:9-11; 14:18-25).  We believe that these gifts were given to authenticate the authority of the disciples in the early stages of Christianity.  Therefore, we do not regard these gifts as a normative practice in any of our ministries’ (such as public worship or small groups).  Nor do we believe that the regular public exercise of these gifts must occur for the growth of the individual or the church.  We may interpret and teach some passages of Scripture differently from some of our charismatic brothers and sisters.  However, we will seek to foster loving attitudes and actions towards them.  We definitely are called to pursue faith, hope and love for these are the greatest. 

We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the universal spiritual experience of  all true Christians, not a post-conversion experience that is evidenced by speaking in tongues.  At the moment of conversion, the Holy Spirit places the new believer into the universal church.  The believer now has the capacity to be under the Spirit’s  empowerment for character transformation and ministry.

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Last modified: 3/26/08