We make it our goal to provide opportunities for people to grow by serving others, by learning more about Jesus and by experiencing what it means to love others and be loved by God – to be a group of Jesus’ followers who actively engage in activities and practices that reach out to people who do not know Jesus.

 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”"What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”He answered, ” ‘LOVE the Lord your GOD with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘LOVE your neighbor as yourself.’”"You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” – Luke 10:25-28 TNIV

Jesus came and modeled a way of life that brings God’s reign here – a way of life that we are called to embrace; a life that asks us to love God with everything we have, and love the people around us the way we love ourselves.

The Bible teaches that God has existed eternally before the beginning of time. He is one God as three distinct and equal persons: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, also known as the Trinity.

God the Father reigns with gracious and benevolent care over His creation and over all the flow of human history. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, all present and all wise. God becomes our heavenly Father through our faith in Jesus. He is fatherly in His attitude and actions and pursues a relationship with all humanity. Jesus is God’s Son and is God. He has existed from the beginning of time, yet also lived on Earth during the first century A.D. Throughout His earthly life, He was completely God and completely human at the same time. After living a perfect, sinless life, Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice for every human being by dying on a Roman cross. After three days, He defeated sin and death by rising from the grave. He then ascended to Heaven. Jesus will return personally and visibly in glory to the Earth, the dead will be raised, and as king, He will judge all men in righteousness at the end of time.

The Holy Spirit is also God, a full and equal part of the Trinity. The Spirit works in the world to make all people understand their need for Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit lives inside every follower of Jesus from the moment they decide to follow Him. The Spirit is our power source for life, ministry and spiritual growth. To tap into that power, we must continually yield to the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s direction for our lives.

The Holy Spirit inspired human authors to write the books of the Bible. Every word of the Scripture is chosen by God Himself. The Bible is God’s love letter to all of humanity and is the final authority on every issue that it communicates. It is complete truth, and we can trust it for all matters in this life and in eternity.

We are the pinnacle of God’s creation and the only being on Earth that God made in His own spiritual image, with the moral ability to choose right from wrong. Every person, although endowed with the image of God, inherited a disobedient heart from Adam and Eve, the very first man and woman. This attitude of disobedience, called sin in the Bible, forever keeps mankind from forming a relationship with our Creator, unless it is reflected through Jesus. This attitude also keeps us from being the kind of people God created us to be in a perfect world.

God made us to exist forever, but our disobedient nature has eternally separated us from our Creator. Evil is present in the world because of humankind’s choice in the Garden of Eden. No matter how hard we try, we can never earn our way back to God’s presence. But, God has always had a plan to restore us to a right relationship with Him.

That’s why God sent Jesus; to pay the price for our sins so that we can spend eternity with Him. What you decide about Jesus Christ in this life will determine where you will spend eternity. If you reject Him, you will spend an eternity separated from God in hell. If you accept Him, you will spend eternity connected to God in Heaven. When you make the decision to follow Jesus, you step into the eternal and abundant life Jesus promises for all believers; a gift He says He will never take away once we receive it.

God has set us apart (sanctified us) for the purpose of growing us to become more like Jesus. Through our faith in the Bible and the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, God changes our hearts in order to change our character and actions. His plan centers around believers sharing and growing together in community: through interacting with Him, caring for others and encouraging each other to grow in our relationship with Jesus. God’s promise is that when we reach heaven, He will complete the process of making every believer like Jesus.