Our Vision
To live out the kingdom of God in our Church, our Community and beyond our Valley.
Our Mission
The Mission of New Life Church is to love God by worshipping Him, serving others and making disciples.
Our Values
Value #1: God is in charge … this is how we see the world.
The Bible clearly says that our world is the Lord’s, and everything in it (Psalm 24). He created it; He loves it; He redeemed it; He controls it; He converses with it; He will restore it; He will judge it.
Paul writes that the universe alone provides overwhelming evidence of God’s eternal power and divine nature (Romans 1:20). God is evident everywhere and because He is, we gaze with wonder on what He has made and see ourselves, too, as part of His Creation – creatures made in His image (Genesis 1-2).
We value, then, that our world is not a random accident. It has been designed with purpose, with efficiency, with profound beauty, and even with the ability to restore itself when we mistreat and destroy it. Behind and within our world, there is Someone in charge – the Living, Eternal and all-powerful God of the Bible.
Value #2: We are all Servants … this is how we see ourselves.
Because we recognize God’s ultimate authority – that He is in charge – we also value that we are not the object and subject of life. He is the object and He is the subject. History is ultimately His story and our place in His story is to seek to know Him and worship Him (Philippians 3:7-11).
In Jesus we learn that God loves us and has rescued us from our sin through Christ’s death and resurrection, adopting us as His spiritual children. Within our new relationship with Him we now seek to serve God with great purpose and delight – full of wonder that we could be so loved (1 Peter 2:9-10).
We do this by rejecting whatever gets in the way of God’s plans for creation, and by living in community with others who have also met Jesus and see life as we do –having personally experienced God’s good news to the world (Acts 2:42-47).
Value #3: Generosity distributes God’s resources … this is how we see our possessions.
As God’s children we understand that everything we have comes from Him and that because our Father promises to care for us, we can live generously, learning that God’s abundance for His world will never run out (Matthew 6:19-34). Importantly, we also learn that hoarding is not what God intends from His children. Our Father is generous – He provided even His Son for us (John 3:16). So, we too live out this value, practicing deep & delightful generosity with everyone.
God’s radical generosity in Jesus is the foundation of our faith, and our generosity with others becomes the means of sharing God’s abundance throughout His Creation (1 Timothy 6:17-19).