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Our Mission

Blessing Our Neighbors
Initiating and investing in ongoing relationships that benefit those in our spheres of influence, giving them an opportunity to experience the tangible Kingdom.

Enjoying Community
Being together, sharing life, and inviting others to experience God's redemptive community.

Encounter God
Interacting with God's truth and its transforming effect on our thoughts and lives. This interaction is around God's Word and discerning His truth, wherever we encounter it. 

 

What We Believe

  1. We believe the Bible is God’s Word given by divine inspiration, the record of God’s revelation of Himself to humanity (II Timothy 3:16).
  2. We believe in the one living and true God, perfect in wisdom, sovereignty, holiness, justice, mercy and love (I Timothy 1:17; Psalm 86:15; Deuteronomy 32:3-4). 
    • The Father reigns with providential care over all life and history in the created universe.  He hears and answers prayer (I Chronicles 29:11-13; Matthew 7:11).  He initiated salvation by sending His Son, and He is Father to those who by faith accept His Son as Lord and Savior (I John 4:9-10; John 3:16; John 1:12; Acts 16:31).
    • The Son became man, Jesus Christ, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary (John 1:14; Matthew 1:18).  Being fully God and fully man, He revealed God through His sinless life, miracles and teaching (John 14:9; Hebrews 4:15; Matthew 4:23-24).  He provided salvation through His atoning death in our place and by His bodily resurrection (I Corinthians 15:3-4; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:23-25).  He ascended into heaven where He rules over all creation (Philippians 2:5-11).  He intercedes for all believers and dwells in them as their ever-present Lord (Romans 8:34; John 14:23).
    • The Holy Spirit inspired men to write the Scriptures (II Peter 1:21).  Through this Word, He convicts individuals of their sinfulness and of the righteousness of Christ, draws them to the Savior, and bears witness to their new birth (James 1:18; John 16:7-11; I Thessalonians 1:5-6; Romans 8:16).  At regeneration and conversion, the believer is baptized in the Holy Spirit (I Corinthians 12:13).  The Spirit indwells, seals and gives spiritual gifts to all believers for ministry in the church and society (Romans 8:9-11; Ephesians 1:13-14; Romans 12:5-8; I Peter 4:10).  He empowers, guides, teaches, fills, sanctifies and produces the fruit of Christlikeness in all who yield to Him (Acts 4:31; Romans 8:14; I Corinthians 2:10-13; Ephesians 5:18; II Thessalonians 2:13; Galatians 5:16; 22-23).
  3. We believe God created man in His own image to have fellowship with Himself and to be steward over His creation (Genesis 1:26-28). 
  4. We believe salvation is redemption by Christ of the whole person from sin and death (II Timothy 1:9-10; I Thessalonians 5:23). 
  5. We believe the Church is the body of which Christ is the head and all who believe in Him are members (Ephesians 1:22-23; Romans 12:4-5). 
    • The ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord's Supper.  Baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-20).  It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of the Savior Jesus Christ (Romans 6:3-5).  The Lord's Supper is the partaking of the bread and of the cup by believers together as a continuing memorial of the broken body and shed blood of Christ.  It is an act of thankful dedication to Him and serves to unite His people until He returns (I Corinthians 11:23-26).
    • To express unity in Christ, local churches form associations and a conference for mutual counsel, fellowship and a more effective fulfillment of Christ's commission (Acts 15; I Corinthians 6:1-3).To express unity in Christ, local churches form associations and a conference for mutual counsel, fellowship and a more effective fulfillment of Christ's commission (Acts 15; I Corinthians 6:1-3).
  6. We believe religious liberty, rooted in Scripture, is the inalienable right of all individuals to freedom of conscience with ultimate accountability to God (Genesis 1:27; John 8:32; II Corinthians 3:17;  Romans 8:21; Acts 5:29). 
  7. We believe Christians, individually and collectively, are called to be salt and light in society(Matthew 5:13-16).
    • We affirm the family as the basic unit of society and seek to preserve its integrity and stability (Genesis 2:21-25; Ephesians 6:1-4).
    • We believe the Bible teaches that marriage refers to the covenant relationship exclusively between one man and one woman, as instituted by God in the beginning (Genesis 2:20-24; I Corinthians 7:2; Hebrews 13:4).
  8. We believe God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring all things to their appropriate end and establish the new heaven and the new earth (Ephesians 1:9-10, Revelation 21:1). 


We are affiliated with the North American Baptist Conference and its regional expression NABNW.