History Moving Forward
People came from overseas 200 hundred years ago to bring the good news that Jesus saves.
We are thankful that they obeyed God and sacrificed so we can worship in our three churches here today. The missionaries were what they were called because they had a purpose to bring the good news. They believed the same things as us but also wanted to make sure everybody has heard the good news of Jesus and so had a choice to be saved.
Our beliefs and values
Family of God
We believe that we are children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. We are born again children of God and joint heirs with Jesus. So we have a genetic family and a spiritual family and if we are blessed they can be the same.
The Trinity – Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Spirit
We believe in one God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, We learn that God in the Bible is one, yet revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – a Holy Trinity.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that by the power of the Holy Spirit people enter into the new life in the Christian family. They receive Jesus as Lord of life and become disciples. He convicts people of their sin and need for Jesus Christ, and performs the miracle of the new birth. He indwells each new Christian.
Family of God
We believe that we are children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. We are born again children of God and joint heirs with Jesus. So we have a genetic family and a spiritual family and if we are blessed they can be the same.
The Trinity – Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Spirit
We believe in one God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, We learn that God in the Bible is one, yet revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – a Holy Trinity.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that by the power of the Holy Spirit people enter into the new life in the Christian family. They receive Jesus as Lord of life and become disciples. He convicts people of their sin and need for Jesus Christ, and performs the miracle of the new birth. He indwells each new Christian.
Jesus Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ the promised Saviour or Christ, God with us. He lived a sinless life, and offered Himself as the perfect and complete sacrifice for sin by dying on a cross.
Through Christ’s death and resurrection, we are offered forgiveness and oneness with God. Jesus intercedes for us at God’s throne. We look forward to Him returning to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
Our Faith
The Bible
We believe the Bible is the word of God and is Holy Spirit inspired through human authors who wrote the sixty-six books of the Bible for God’s revelation to people. The Holy Spirit helps understand the Bible, and guides His people in interpretation and understanding.
Prayer
We believe that all of us can communicate with God. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can pray with or without words, by ourselves or with others.
People
We believe in that people are lost spiritual without Jesus. We are free to reflect God’s own nature, to make choices: to love, to create, to reason, and to live in harmony with God and all creation.
Communion
We believe in sharing in the Lord’s Supper for all believers. We come trusting in God’s forgiving love, having examined our lives and with goodwill towards others.
Future
Jesus will return
We believe in the second coming of Christ. That God in Christ will come in glory to judge the living and the dead, in the fulness of time.
Eternity
We believe in the everlasting life for the believer through Christ’s death and resurrection we are offered forgiveness and oneness with God. We look to resurrection life and participation with all other Christians in heaven.