WE BELIEVE

The  Brief Statement of Faith  from the Presbyterian Church (USA) affirms the following promise:

In sovereign love God created the world good

and makes everyone equally in God’s image,

male and female, of every race and people,

to live as one community.

But we rebel against God;

we hide from our Creator. . .

Yet God acts with justice and mercy

to redeem creation.

In everlasting love,

the God of Abraham and Sarah

chose a covenant people

to bless all families of the earth.

To read the Statement of Faith in its entirety please visit:

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/what-we-believe/theology/

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 The Role of the Church

From Horizon's Magazine, a publication of the Presbyterian Women (PW)

"We are called to be together. Being together matters, I matter. You matter. We matter together. No one is not one of us. The church was given to us as a way to care for each other, a way to be a glimmering of heaven-on-earth and God's kingdom-come. The church is meant to be food, meant to be breath, meant to be song. It gives us hope and is hope." (p. 10 Mihee Kim-Kort, Author)

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John 3:16  New International Version

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:1-18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. 12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth. 15 (John testified to him and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’ ”) 16 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.