In response to God’s love and grace, through Jesus Christ, we commit to learning, proclaiming, and living the love of God.
What We Believe
We believe God is ever present. Though we may question, doubt and struggle God keeps expressing love for all creation, and for all persons. God created us and loves our humanness.
We know this love in the person of Jesus Christ who helps us understand God and what it is to be human.
Jesus lived God’s love in his ministry of compassion to all people: well or sick, rich or poor, included or outcast. Jesus invites all persons to experience God’s transforming forgiveness and grace, and to share new life with others, following Christ’s example. We believe in the Holy Spirit an active force eternally present that moves people to demonstrate their faith. The Holy Spirit inspires us and enlightens us, coming to us in times of need, refreshing and renewing us, and giving us courage.
We believe that God created us for life together and that the Christian life is most faithfully and joyfully lived in the community of faith that is the church.
This community sustains, nourishes and challenges us to greater and steadier faithfulness to Jesus Christ. To be a Christian is, for most of us, to be part of a community of Christians.
We believe the church has an important purpose in the life of the community at large.
As a Church, we seek to be faithful together and where we answer the call to help mend our broken world. In our ministry our constant source of strength and direction comes from the teachings of Jesus Christ who call us to love our neighbors and care for our community with his unconditional love and acceptance.
We Are in the Reformed Tradition
As Presbyterians we have our roots in the Protestant Reformation. Presbyterians have always recognized that the Church is the living body of Christ and is always reforming. We are continually called to grow in the knowledge and love of God and in love and action for our neighbors.
The word “Presbyterian” comes from the Greek word for “elder,” used in the New Testament.
The Presbyterian denomination takes its name from its form of church government, which is to be governed by elders. Lay persons called and ordained as Elders, care for the organization and administration of the congregation. Other lay persons are called and ordained as Deacons, following the early Church model of service in the congregation as we see in Acts chapters 5 and 6. Our pastor is the Teaching Elder, called, trained and ordained to full time vocational ministry in the church. The Presbyterian way is not hierarchical, but democratic and local where the gifts and graces of all of our members are needed, recognized and deployed for the building up of the church.