| Our family of faith
is a unique Christian fellowship in the Thomasville community.
Our members include people of diverse ages and backgrounds
who have found their spiritual center in worshipping through
our Church. We are large enough to offer a diversity of programs
and opportunities for service, but small enough to feel like
a family in faith.
Our Sunday mornings we come together
to hear the Word, to sing songs of praise, to pray with and
for one another, to celebrate the sacraments, and to show
Christian love to all who are with us.
Special
features of our Sunday service are:
• Biblically-based expository
preaching
• A commitment to musical excellence
• Prayers for families in our congregation and for other
• churches in the Thomasville
area each week on a rotating basis
• A time for spoken prayer requests
• The regular observance of the Lord's Supper
• A special message to children
• Nursery care
Who
We Are
We are a Church in the Presbyterian
tradition, but we have members from many different church
backgrounds. We are committed to obeying the Bible as the
Word of God, allowing one another freedom in its interpretation.
Our worship is liturgical, but we are not stodgy about it.
We take our Christian commitment seriously, but we do not
take ourselves seriously.
We seek to glorify God, to share the
Good News of Jesus Christ, and to nurture people spiritually.
We worship together, share each other's joys and sorrows,
and enjoy fellowship and working together.
We seek to be attentive to God's grace
both in Church and the world around us. We are especially
interested in offering the best of Christian worship and music,
in encouraging each other to grow spiritually, in sharing
the Good News about Jesus through our witness and service
and in ministry to the community and world around us.
What
We Believe
The faith we affirm unites
us with the one, universal church. The most important beliefs
of Presbyterians are those we share with other Christians
and especially with other evangelical Christians who look
to the Protestant Reformation as a renewal of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
We trust in the one triune God, and
we affirm that in life and death we belong to God. We trust
in Jesus Christ, fully human, fully God, who proclaimed the
reign of God, was crucified, and gave his life for the sins
of the world. God raised Jesus from the dead, breaking the
power of sin and evil, and delivering us from death to life
eternal.
We trust in God the Holy Spirit. In
a broken and fearful world, the Spirit gives us courage to
pray without ceasing, to witness to Christ as Lord and Savior,
and to unmask idolatries in Church and culture. We strive
to serve Christ in our daily tasks, even as we watch for God's
new heaven and new earth, praying "come, Lord Jesus."
With believers in every time and place,
we rejoice that nothing in life or in death can separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus, Our Lord.
(Condensed from
the preface and text of the
Presbyterian Church (USA)'s Brief Statement of Faith) |