ABOUT US
Growing in Spirit - Living as Disciples - Serving God's World
Grace Presbyterian Church's Mission
At Grace, inner spiritual growth is never disconnected from the fruit of discipleship and service. We prioritize robust worship, education and spiritual growth opportunities, but we don't stop there. You'll find that the same person who taught prayer practices on Sunday morning is calling local partners about our support of local schools. You'll find that our planning meetings for hands-on mission partnerships turn into conversations about what it means to hope for God's kingdom on earth. This is who we are at Grace: people seeking to grow in Spirit, live as disciples, and serve God's world. People seeking to build a unity of heart and action in our life together, following Jesus Christ.
We Choose Welcome
Our church sign out front says "We Choose Welcome," and we do our best to mean it. We want everyone to worship, grow, learn, serve, and lead with us--inclusive of age, race, ethnicity, ability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and neurotype. Just as Jesus included all kinds of people in his mission and ministry, we believe God calls us to continually grow in welcome and inclusivity. This takes intentional work, but there's nothing more Presbyterian than good, old-fashioned hard work!
What We Believe
As a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA), we share core beliefs held in common across many Christian churches, as articulated in the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed. We also hold distinct Protestant, and specifically Reformed, theological emphases that can be traced to our historical origins during the Protestant Reformation in Europe: many of these can be found in our Book of Confessions. While we have our written statements, we also believe in the principle, "Reformed, and always reforming according to the word of God." In faithful study and devotion to God's word revealed through Christ and through the Scripture, we are continually being transformed to come closer to the radical, powerful love of God. You can read more about what Presbyterians believe here.
At Grace Presbyterian, we also know that our beliefs can be better discovered by observing our actions than by reading a bunch of historical confessions. So we invite you to come out and worship with us, experience the warm welcome of our community, sing in the choir, or join in our longstanding mission partnerships in Springfield, Honduras, and Palestine.
