About

What is Congregationalism?

We are a church of faith, free­dom, and fellowship.

Faith: A person’s rela­tion­ship with God is the most impor­tant thing. It is lived out on Sun­day and every day.

Free­dom: We share unity in the essen­tial things of the Chris­t­ian faith, and char­ity in all other mat­ters. We are not all the same, and we like it this way.

Fel­low­ship: As fel­low trav­el­ers we are joined as spir­i­tual friends in Christ. We don’t believe in going it alone. We need you and you need us.

We are a main­stream church hold­ing to the his­toric beliefs of Chris­tian­ity. We are a con­gre­ga­tion that shares an open­ness to new and cre­ative ways of being faith­ful. Most of our mem­bers have come from other denom­i­na­tions, or from no church affil­i­a­tion; our con­gre­ga­tion is, in effect, a quilt of dif­fer­ent back­grounds, opin­ions, and expe­ri­ences joined together in the spir­i­tual life.

While most churches are run from the top down, a con­gre­ga­tional church is run from the bot­tom up. The peo­ple are the church. They own and oper­ate the church. Free from the con­strains of a par­ent orga­ni­za­tion, each church in the Con­gre­ga­tional way is unique with a var­ied fellowship.

Mis­sion Statement

We are a church open to all. As mod­ern day pil­grims we con­sider it our priv­i­lege and com­mit­ted respon­si­bil­ity to:
CELEBRATE the glory of God through wor­ship, ser­vice and stew­ard­ship
NURTURE our rela­tion­ship with Chris­t­ian love and truth; and
SERVE oth­ers in our daily lives indi­vid­u­ally and col­lec­tively as Christ’s people.

Staff

Senior Min­is­ter, Matthew Olson
Church Admin­is­tra­tor, Susan Larsen
Trea­surer, Jim Bea­gle
Finan­cial Sec­re­tary, Paul Mar­tis
Chan­cel Choir Direc­tor, Dr. Charles Gra­ham
Direc­tor of Music Min­istry, Rachael Short
Hands of Har­mony Direc­tor, Susan Kilmer