The story of our world ends in a restored creation— a garden city filled with flourishing, peace, justice, and God’s presence. We are trusting God to bring tangible glimpses of that future into our city now.

  • The Bible isn’t a disconnected set of moral lessons — it’s the true story of the whole world. From Creation to New Creation, it reveals God’s purpose to renew everything through Jesus. As we’re caught up in this story, we learn who we are, what’s gone wrong, and what it means to live in hope until the day God makes all things new.

  • Every one of us is shaped by competing stories about what’s good, true, and worth living for. But when we meet Jesus, our stories are drawn into God’s story — and we begin to be transformed. The Spirit renews our minds, heals our hearts, and grows us into the likeness of Christ, so that His life becomes visible in ours.

  • God is already at work restoring His creation — pushing back sin, injustice, and decay, and bringing glimpses of His kingdom wherever truth, beauty, and goodness take root. The church exists as a living preview of that renewal — a community that embodies the love, justice, and peace of heaven here and now.

  • We join God’s mission in all of life. Whether we’re building homes, teaching kids, designing software, raising families, or serving neighbors, our work participates in God’s restoration project. Every calling matters because in Christ, ordinary labor becomes sacred — a way to love God, serve others, and push back the darkness.

  • We were made to live in communion with God — to know Him, love Him, and reflect His character in the world. Sin fractured that relationship, but through Jesus we’re welcomed back as sons and daughters, learning to trust His wisdom, rest in His grace, and join His mission of renewal. Every part of life begins here — with worship, dependence, and delight in the God who made and redeems us.

  • God calls us to grow into the people He created us to be — whole, integrated, and rooted in character. In a world that often prizes competency or being “cool,” we value integrity, kindness, and discernment above performance or popularity. Through reflection, healthy boundaries, and the Spirit’s shaping, we learn to live faithfully and flourish as the people God intended.

  • We were never meant to live alone. The church is a new kind of community — one where love replaces rivalry and forgiveness breaks the cycle of pride and hurt. We become a living picture of heaven’s diversity and unity: different stories, cultures, and gifts woven together in Christ to serve and bless the world.

  • God’s good creation isn’t just scenery — it’s the arena where His glory and renewal are revealed. We participate in God’s work by caring for the earth, cultivating beauty, and using our skills to restore and protect what He made. Every act of stewardship, creativity, or thoughtful work honors the Creator and points toward the flourishing of all creation.

We are a member church of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA). The EFCA is an association of autonomous churches united around these theological convictions:

  • We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

  • We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

  • We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

  • We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

  • We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

  • We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

  • We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.

Our mission is to embody Jesus in all of life for the glory of God and the good of our city.