Our Vision
Together, as the Church of the Brethren, we will passionately live and share the radical transformation and holistic peace of Jesus Christ through relationship-based neighborhood engagement. To move us forward, we will develop a culture of calling and equipping disciples who are innovative, adaptable, and fearless.
MISSION STATEMENT
We seek to learn from Jesus Christ how to live, and to share with all people the good news of God’s love, whole-heartedly and humbly, prayerfully and peacefully.
Affirmation of Faith & Purpose
This congregation:
1. Is founded upon the faith that there is but one God who is revealed to humankind as three persons, who in holy love creates, sustains, and orders all.
2. Confesses Jesus Christ as the Lord of the church and of all life.
3. Believes that the Holy Spirit is at work in the lives of believers, sustaining the church through the gospel, giving guidance and comfort, and uniting believers with their Lord and with one another.
4. Believes that the Scriptures are the inspired word of God, maintains the New Testament as its only creed and rule of faith, and accepts the Bible as the inspired, trustworthy, and authoritative word of God.
5. Believes that the gospel is the good news that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto God. Through the gospel, the sovereign will of God and the redeeming grace of Christ are revealed.
6. Holds that the church is the body of Christ and is under the Lord's mandate to be faithful in accepting and transmitting the gospel by word and deed.
7. Considers that all members of the congregation of the body of believers are responsible for the total ministry of the church.
8. Accepts the ministry of the church to be the proclamation of the gospel to all people both near and far and the nurture of the individual believers in the Christian faith and life.
