'What does this Church believe?' 'What can I expect?'

The Family of God Worshipping Together! Sundays 10:00am (music @ 9:45am)

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What can I expect... When I visit this church...

"It's a small church, everyone is friendly, I felt I was part of the worship, even though it's an auditorium, I wasn't being entertained."

• We want everyone who enters to find they are closer to God than when they walked in. We are a family where the doors and the people are always open.

"The message today made the bible seem real. It was amazing how it spoke to what was going on with me."

• The Bible is God's message for living with God today. It is real help for real life issues. We want you take away with you hope and practical help that God can give to each one of us.

What we believe...

About God: There is one God who created and rules the universe. He has existed for eternity and is known in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit--the Blessed Trinity or tri-unity.

About Humanity: Humanity was created in the image of God, male and female, and to be like Him reflecting His character. Out of all creation, Humanity is object of God's love. God made each person with the ablity to choose to return God's love or to turn away and apart from God, which is what is known as "sin."

About Eternity: God creates men and women to exist forever, for eternity with God. God allows human beings choose to be with Him for eternity, Heaven, or apart from Him, Hell. Human beings come to be with God through forgiveness and salvation given by God.

About Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is the only Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit; He is fully God. Jesus lived a sinless life as a human being, and offered His life as the perfect sacrifice for all sin in His death on the cross. Jesus rose from the dead after three days overcoming sin and death, ascending to Heaven, and opening the way for Man to enter eternity with God.

About Salvation: Salvation is God's gift to Man, to be received by each man, woman, or child, not by our good works, or our self-improvement, or our making up for our sin. Only Jesus' offering can remove our sin. Having received forgiveness and salvation we begin to live by faith in Jesus Christ for eternity.

About the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son. We continue that life of faith daily learning to love through God's grace and power transforming our lives by the operation of the Holy Spirit.

About the Bible: The Bible is the Word of God. This Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation. Written by human authors, but inspired by the Holy Spirit, it the source for Christian belief and living. You can's read in the Bible; if you can't proved it by the Bible; It can't be required for belief. Holy Scripture includes the books of the Old and New Testaments and for instruction the Apocrypha.

About Baptism: Baptism is not only a symbol of our faith, but the effectual grace of God strengthening and confirming our eternal life in Jesus Christ. Grace is increased for who come in faith and regenerated in the only Son of God. It is not by our level of understanding that God acts, but He confirms our faith.

About Communion: Communion is not only a symbol of our faith, but God's grace is given as we partake in the Holy Communion, Jesus' sacrament giving us His Body and His Blood. Jesus said, "Take," "Eat," and "Do this!" The reality of His Presence, His Grace received as we in faith come to partake of His divine life.

Participation in Holy Commuion? "At the offering, we ask you NOT to put money in the offering plate when you come for the first time. Instead, we ask you to make "a special offering" of your life today. Your life may weighed down with worries, cares, or trouble, but it is your life and we invite you to place it in God's hands. The offering is to give of ourselves to God. Each of us puts our name on a card to symbolize our lives, where we are today, whatever our desires, our troubles, our joys. We invite you to add your card to be offered to God. If there are special needs in the lives of individuals you know who need our prayers, we have a place to add their names to your card and we will pray specifically for them.

Are kids welcome? "The kids aren't herded off. We got to worship God together!"

While kids may not pick up on everything, they do pick up that this is the real deal. So we worship together as a whole family of God. We welcome parents to get up and walk around with your children. We hope you'll sit where the kids can see everything that is going on. Don't worry about kids making noise. As parents and grandparents, we love having kids being part of the family.

God's Presence? "I could feel God present in this gathering. I could tell everyone expected God to be there in this ancient worship--and He was!"

It's about entering into the presence of God. We want to make an opportunity for you to experience being touched by God. Our message, our music, and our folk are all part of an atmosphere where we meet God in true worship using ancient liturgies of the Church. This is not entertainment. The symbols, language,and even our standing, sitting, and kneeling, all give shape to the mystery of God making himself present with us.

We know this may your first time at this Church, or at any church. You may have questions. We invite you to ask and to seek answers of God along side us. God has chosen to make Himself known. Together we are here to worship of God in His Holiness and to seek Him. We encourage you to join seeking the truth of God, to grow and to trust in the God who loves each one of us and wants us to share in true life for all eternity.