What We Value
We hold the following five values as most important to us. They express who we are and who we want to be. We hope you will encounter these values in our community as we continue to grow in our expression of them.
Jesus is the One we follow and the centre of who we are and what we do.
We make room for anyone to find their home here.
In response to God’s goodness and grace, we live humble, grateful and generous lives.
We are all invited to join God’s mission of making disciples and renewing the world.
We live out a spirit-led, adventurous faith trusting that God always has more for us.
What We Believe
We believe that Jesus is fully God and fully man, was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross as the atoning sacrifice of our sins. Further, He rose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, and now sits at the right hand of the Father as our High Priest and advocate.
We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. In the Bible we find the complete revelation of God’s will for the salvation of people of all ages, and divine authority for the Christian faith and lifestyle.
We believe in One God, creator of all things, who is perfect and eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son & Holy Spirit.
We believe that, through the Holy Spirit, God glorifies His Son, Jesus Christ. That the Holy Spirit, indwells, guides, instructs and empowers those who believe so that they might live Godly lives of service. Every believer should be continually filled with the Holy Spirit, thus being empowered to be witnesses to the truth of the Gospel.
We believe that all people are created in the image of God but have fallen into sin and are therefore lost in broken relationship with God. It is only through the regenerative work of the Holy Spirit that salvation and life with God can be obtained. The shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only grounds for justification & salvation.
We believe that there is one true Church universal, comprised of all those who have received God’s grace in the person of Jesus Christ and that the local body of believers gathers for worship, prayer, teaching of the Word, fellowship, service, and the observance of Baptism and Communion.
We believe that believers’ baptism by immersion is the appropriate response to the grace of God in Jesus Christ and that all believers should be encouraged to be baptised in accordance with the call of Jesus.
We believe in the priesthood of all believers and maintain that every believer has been gifted and equipped by God for their role in the ministry and life of the church.
We believe that God leads and directs His Church through His people and seek to facilitate this through the exercise of congregational government.
We believe God, in His own way and in His own time, will bring about the renewal of all creation, setting the world to rights and establishing the new heavens and new earth. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth, the dead will be raised and Christ will judge all people in righteousness.