Our Name
1 John 4:9 - In this the love of God was REVEALED toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. Our name comes from this truth - that God loved us first – that He sent Jesus so we could know Him and REALLY LIVE.
Our Focus
1. Worship – Putting God First in Intimate Worship and Praise
2. Teaching the Word – Truth Coming Alive to All Ages
3. People – Loving Each Other in Community and Relationships
4. Prayer – Ministering to God and to People with Faith-Filled Prayer
2. Teaching the Word – Truth Coming Alive to All Ages
3. People – Loving Each Other in Community and Relationships
4. Prayer – Ministering to God and to People with Faith-Filled Prayer
Our Community
We are a community of believers whose number one priority is a relationship with Jesus – letting Him love us, and loving Him in return out of a heart changed by His new life within, to be a people who REALLY LIVE in the here and now as living examples of the goodness of God, to be empowered by the Word of God, led by the Spirit of God and to worship our heavenly Father with everything we are.
Our Vision
- to see people REALLY LIVE - saved, healed, set free, discipled, equipped, empowered, and serving – out of an understanding of who God is and who they are in Him
Our Mission
- To teach the truth of God’s Word – His overcoming, life-giving, able to meet all our needs Word -- to people of all ages
- To flow in worship that brings freedom, joy and rich fullness of His presence
- To pray effective, faith-filled prayers over the lives of others and connect with the heart of God to pull heaven to earth by declaring His Word as greater
- To share Jesus with people of all ages – so they can grasp and understand how He wants to know them - He is a God of relationship – that He’s not angry with them, but He loves us first, and wants to show that love to them and wants good for them
- To help people become everything God created them to be – to fulfill their God given potential and find a fit using the gifts He placed in them - to equip and enable them to be the hands and feet of Jesus
- To promote a community and culture of loving each other – praying, giving, serving caring and investing deeply in each other’s lives
- To REALLY LIVE – authentically living the life Jesus recreated inside me to be a living example of the goodness of God at work on this earth
Our Culture
• A church that believes that the Word of God is alive, truth that feeds our inner man
• A church that lives by power of prayer -- actively praying for one other
• A church with vibrant, intimate worship that touches the heart of God
• A church that loves people – where relationships and community is a gift from God
• A church that’s not religious – but authentic, real , honest and hungry for Jesus
• A church that lives by power of prayer -- actively praying for one other
• A church with vibrant, intimate worship that touches the heart of God
• A church that loves people – where relationships and community is a gift from God
• A church that’s not religious – but authentic, real , honest and hungry for Jesus
The Church I See
- I see a Church of influence that is known for love, a church where relationships are real and hearts are changed by the Spirit of the Lord.
- I see a Church that has a message so clear that lives are changed forever to REALLY LIVE through the power of His Word in the right here, right now.
- I see a Church where our worship touches the heart of the Father, where Jesus is given first place, where the moving of the Spirit of God is welcome and where the very songs of heaven are poured out in the presence of the Lord.
- I see a Church where hurting people are welcome, where sinners aren’t judged and where salvation is available to all who will call upon the Name of Jesus.
- I see a Church who loves each other so extremely that people are drawn from impossible situations into a loving and friendly circle of hope, where answers are found, freedom is real and acceptance is given.
- I see a Church where people’s lives are forever impacted and filled with hope as His Word becomes real and alive inside of them.
- I see a growing Church that’s not caught up in numbers, but who reach others because they can’t help but love as Christ loves them, whose lives touch others out of a heart of overflow.
- I see a Church that moves in the power of the Holy Spirit, a listening Church whose people stand together in community, praying, caring, serving and full of God’s Spirit.
- I see a church where every ONE can find their place and fit perfectly in the tapestry that the Lord is weaving together … where people of all ages, children, teens and adults find a place.
- I see a Church whose buildings are a testimony to our God who specializes in miracles and ability to bring about the impossible can’t be denied.
- I see a church that is creative and innovative, bringing the message of hope to people in ways that are simple, yet powerful, convicting, yet life-giving.
- I see a church where great gifts will be raised up, leaders, teachers, evangelists, prophets, apostles, psalmists, missionaries and pastors - men and women who will change the world around them.
- I see a church that is generous, who knows how to give selflessly, walking in the goodness and provision of the God who supplies all their needs, who puts God first in every area of their lives and trusts Him as their true source and provider.