Our Faith

As a member congregation of the PC(USA) we uphold the Book of Confessions. Here’s a sample of these Confessions:

In the 2nd century, the church sought to define their faith in one God of Jacob and of Jesus,
and so we proclaim in the Apostles’ Creed:
I believe in God Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ.

In the 4th century, the church was faced with a controversy over the unity of the Trinity, and so we unite our voices and our faith with the words of the Nicene Creed:
We believe in one God, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

In the heart of the 16th century reformation, the church need to remind itself of what mattered most, and so we answer the first question of the Heidelberg Catechism:  What is your only comfort in life and in death?
That I am not my own, but belong, body and soul, in life and in death to… Jesus Christ.

In 1934, faced with the racist and anti-Semitic policies of Hitler’s Germany, faith German Christians resisted and responded, and so we have the words of the Barmen Declaration:
We reject the false doctrine, as though the church were permitted to abandon the form of its message and order to its own pleasure or to changes in prevailing ideological and political convictions.

In the 1980’s, the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa saw generations of apartheid and oppression stifling the lives of black people, and so they penned the words of the Belhar Confession:
We reject any doctrine which in such a situation sanctions in the name of the gospel or of the will of God the forced separation of people on the grounds of race and color and thereby in advance obstructs and weakens the ministry and experience of reconciliation in Christ.

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In the 2020s, the church faces as many obstacles as any generation before and so we proclaim our commitments this day:
We are called to be a witness to the ongoing work of the Spirit: to stand against racism, injustice, and oppression in all forms; to love the strangers, to welcome the outsiders, and to work for the reign of Christ among us.  Hallelujah! Amen!