Vision & BeliefsService & contact information
Our Vision
Introduce people to Christ
Include them in community
Involve them in ministry.
Our Values
Biblically Based
We believe that the Bible is God's written direction, given to us to be our guide in a Christian life. All of our teaching is based on principles revealed in the Bible, intended to equip and inspire people to become living examples of Christ.
Authentic Community
We believe that true growth happens best when believers get connected with other believers. Only in the context of authentic relationships can people feel connected, deepen their faith, develop spiritually, receive care, and get involved in accountability.
Relevant Environments
We believe that each environment at First Assembly should be intentionally created to connect best with its target audience.
Team Ministry
We believe that ministry functions at its best when done by a team of people utilizing their personal gifts in an area of service. We believe that every Christian should be placed on a team according to their strengths and that every team should be strategically involved in the mission of the church.
Outward Focused
We believe that we exist to draw those who are living outside of a relationship with God into a relationship with God by being living examples of His love. We take seriously Jesus’ command to tell the world about His love.
Excellence
We believe that everything we do will reflect the God that we serve. Our God is incredible and our desire is to represent Him in the best possible way.
Our Purpose
Introduce people to Christ.
This is where the story begins for each and everyone of us.
2 Corinthians 5:19-20 (New Living Translation): For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”
1 Corinthians 9:19 (New International Version): 19Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
Hebrews 10:24 (New Living Translation): 24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.
Jude 1:22-23 (The Message): 22-23Go easy on those who hesitate in the faith. Go after those who take the wrong way. Be tender with sinners, but not soft on sin. The sin itself stinks to high heaven.
Include people in community.
Connecting people to life-giving relationships is the best way to grow spiritually and live a life of worship.
Hebrews 10:24-25 (New Living Translation): Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
John 13:34-35 (The Message): "Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other."
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 (The Message): Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
Involve people in service.
Living like Christ means utilizing your gifts in service to others.
Colossians 2:6-7 (The Message): My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You're deeply rooted in him. You're well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you've been taught. School's out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.
Ephesians 4:12-16 (New Living Translation): Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.
