We think FAMILY is our central identity as a community of believers. Faith in Jesus Christ has brought us into God’s family. FOPC is a multi-generational family church—children, parents, grandparents, and singles loving one another, nurturing faith and passing it on, encouraging vital marriages, joined in a common mission, honoring, enjoying, and serving one another. We want to be the premier family church in a ten-mile radius.
We think overflowing and contagious JOY best describes our church family as we gather to celebrate and serve the salvation and mission of Jesus.
We lift up four CORE VALUES:
- Jesus Christ: we experience God’s amazing love and salvation through him; he is the Savior of the world and the Lord of the church; Christians are followers of Christ, radically committed to a lifelong adventure in union with him.
- Holy Spirit: the Christian life is a supernatural life in intimate connection with Christ. The Spirit of God fills us, controls us, and empowers us.
- The Bible: God’s written word, supernaturally inspired. The infallible rule and guide for our faith and life, the Bible speaks to our culture today with God’s cure and hope for the troubling issues we face.
- Prayer: our vital line of communication with God by which we discern God’s will, center our lives on him, and ask for his grace and help.
These values are central to our worship and daily life.
We believe love in action—toward one another, toward our community, toward the world “God so loved”—is the best expression of the new life God has blessed us with.
We believe the good news of the gospel supernaturally transforms people—saving, healing, liberating, recreating. Through this message Jesus Christ embraces us with God’s love and hope and sends us out to share it with everyone.
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