Our Dream:
We dream of becoming a church where:
- the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) is our greatest priority. We want to see people commit their lives fully to Jesus Christ and as a result become all they were created to be. It is a dream of sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with thousands of residents in the Tri-County area.
- we live in an authentic community inspired by teaching that focuses on life change, by participative, modern worship services, and by relationally driven small groups.
- everyone feels welcomed and valued as we encourage each other to take the next step in our journey of getting to know and follow God.
- we are welcoming an ever expanding number of members into the fellowship of our church family—loving, learning, laughing, and living in harmony together.
- we discover, sharpen, and implement our God-given talents and gifts in ministry to help each other, our community, and the world.
- we understand and become convicted that we are fully loved and accepted by God through Jesus Christ and then we live with a sense of courage and destiny.
- we live out our faith in our homes, our workplace, and by participating in servant evangelism efforts in our community.
- our leaders function as an effective team at every level and area of ministry.
- our leaders never stop growing and developing, and our church never stops growing, developing, changing, and adapting to an ever-changing world.
- we are of sending our members on short-term mission projects to those areas targeted by GBIM. It is the dream of starting new churches in Ohio with the cooperation of Vision Ohio.
- we have at least 20 acres of land on which will be built a regional church for reaching our Tri-County area—with beautiful, open, bright, modern, yet simple facilities including a state of the art worship center seating 1200 people, a counseling and prayer center, classrooms for bible studies and training lay ministers, a children’s wing and nursery that is creative, spacious and able to meet the needs of a first-class children’s ministry, a spacious foyer with a modern café and bookstore, and a recreation area that includes a kitchen and gymnasium.
All of this will be designed to minister to the total person—spiritually, emotionally, physically, and socially,--and set in a peaceful, inspiring landscape.
We believe this dream can be a reality because our God is the God of the impossible!
The result of this dream is that in a very practical way, we will bring glory to God and allow Him to advance His Kingdom through us.
