Vision and Mission

Vision

We seek to be a church family committed to the gathering of God’s people for worship, for the equipping of believers through the ordinary means of grace (Word, Sacraments, and Prayer), and for the building up of disciples who are able to love and serve our community as witnesses of the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Mission

We seek to glorify Christ in all things as we gather for worship, grow as disciples, love one another, and witness to the world.

In the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20), Jesus sets the mission of the Church to the end of the age by sending His Apostles to the nations to baptize and disciple believers and their children to obey all of His commands. The Apostles carry out this mission in the book of Acts by regularly gathering for worship, teaching Scripture, prayer, and breaking of bread (Acts. 2:42-47). In Ephesians 4, the Apostle Paul sets a vision for the Church whom Jesus gifts with leaders to “equip the saints for the work of the ministry” and to “build up the body of Christ” (v. 12). Moreover, the goal of church ministry is for believers to be discipled into a mature faith “to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” so that they would not be “tossed to and from by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine” (vv. 13-14). And we are to grow in grace so that “each part is working properly” and “[building] itself up in love” (v. 16). Furthermore, the Church is not simply meant to focus on inward growth, but to be witnesses to the lost, both locally and globally (Acts 1:8).