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Are you tired of "organized religion"? Have you taken your family to church to worship God, only to hear social and political opinions? Perhaps you want to learn about Jesus, but you find they're always hitting you up for money. If you think that religion has lost its way, then we would like to introduce ourselves.

We are an independent, non-denominational, Bible based family of believers seeking to know and do the will of God.

• The Bible is our guide.
• Jesus is our Perfect Example.
• We have no denominational headquarters.
• There is no "ruling board" outside of our congregation that tells us what to do or what to believe.
• We are simply trying to be like Jesus in everything we do.

We claim to be Christians only - nothing more and nothing less. We get together each week to worship God, study the Bible, enjoy fellowship with each other, and reach out to our community.

The more you get to know us, the more you'll find that we're just ordinary people who are being changed by an extraordinary God. We make no claims to be a perfect church, but we have learned one thing that we strive to communicate and embody: People matter to God! And so, people matter to us..... people just like you!

Jeff Slater
Preaching Minister

    It seems to me that more people who claim to be Christ-followers in this world are caught up in doing church over being church.  But church isn't a place.  It isn't a set of rituals.  It isn't the performance abilities of teachers or song leaders.  Church is the life of Jesus on display through his people - with Jesus functioning as head and all His people as various parts of His body in the world.  Jerry Cook tells a story about Richard Halverson that illustrates the contrast between "doing" and "being" as the people who confess Christ.
    Dr. Halverson was chaplain of the United States Senate for several years.  He would occasionally visit the seminary where Cook was a student.  After one of those visits to speak to students, he joined a group of them for coffee and made himself available for informal conversation.
    "Dr. Halverson," began one of the seminarians, "where is your church?"  The student was asking about the street location of the church Halverson served, but he got a deeper and more insightful answer.
    "Well, it's three o'clock in Washington, D.C.  The church I serve is all over the city right now.  It's driving buses, serving meals in restaurants, sitting in board meetings, having discussions in the Pentagon, deliberating in Congress."  He proceeded with a long list of roles and responsibilities where his church was functioning that day.  "And periodically we get together at a building on Fourth Street," he added, "but we don't spend a lot of our time there."
    The preahcer-chaplain was not naive with his answer.  He was brilliant.  And he had the clear intent to challenge a young would-be pastor to raise his sights above the Sunday event of church as an assembly.  Or even church as programs and budgets and organization.
    The church was never intended to be isolated from the world but to penetrate it as salt does food.  Jesus wants his people to be "in the world" but not "of the world" - functioning as light to dark places.
    Where will you be this week? In meeting? On the phone? Calling clients? Teaching algebra? Cleaning house? Delivering product? Delivering speeches? Delivering babies?  Wherever you will be and whatever you are doing there, you will be part of the spread-out, scattered-over-the-world church.  Your role is to be a stand-in for Jesus to make the world a better, less-threatening place.
    "Whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through him to God the Father" (Colossians 3:17).
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