OUR MISSION
Our mission is to grow spirit-filled believers through steadfast preaching, teaching, christian education, and discipleship training for the sole purpose of spreading the gospel to lost souls and ministering healing to a dying world. Spreading God’s love and His redemptive plan of salvation through the shed blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the focus of all church ministries.
We seek to know God through worship, bible study, personal devotions, and Christian education classes. We pledge ourselves to God and each other as a unified body of Christ. We strive to build each other up so that we may persevere on this Christian journey. We honor God with our tithes, the first of our fruit, and support the ministries of the church with offerings of time, talent, and energy. We unite to share the light of God’s love in our community with those outside of His arch of safety through formal and informal outreach ministries. We surrender our lives to Christ as co-laborers in the vineyard.
VISION STATEMENT
“We are the church: Caring, Connecting, Cultivating and Changing Lives with a spirit of excellence.”
Now you are the body of Christ and each one of you are a part of it. (1 Corinthians 12:27)
OUR COVENANT
Having been led, as we believe, by the Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour; and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now in the presence of God, angels and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another, as one body in Christ.
We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church in knowledge and holiness; to give it a place in our affections, prayers and services above every organization of human origin; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline and doctrine; to contribute cheerfully and regularly, as God has prospered us, towards its expenses, for the support of a faithful and evangelical ministry among us, the relief of the poor and the spread of the gospel throughout the world. In case of difference of opinion in the church, we will strive to avoid a contentious spirit, and if we cannot unanimously agree, we will cheerfully recognize the right of the majority to govern.
We also engage to maintain family and secret devotion; to study diligently the word of God; to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintance; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be kind and just to those in our employ, and faithful in the service we promise others; endeavoring in the purity of heart and good will towards all men to exemplify and commend our holy faith.
We further engage to watch over, to pray for, to exhort and stir up each other unto every good word and work; to guard each other’s reputation, not needlessly exposing the infirmities of others; to participate in each other’s joys, and with tender sympathy bear one another’s burdens and sorrows to cultivate Christian courtesy; to be slow to give or take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, being mindful of the rules of the Saviour in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew, to secure it without delay; and through life, amid evil report, and good report, to seek to live to the glory of God, who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
When we remove from this place, we engage as soon as possible to unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s word.