Who We Are?
Our MissioN
Saint Andrew is a member of the Global Methodist Church. Our Mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly.
In our worship, we desire to surrender to and be fully devoted to one God—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We are passionate about what is important to God.
Jesus calls those who follow Him to love God wholeheartedly and love their neighbors as themselves. Our desire is to demonstrate to our community the extravagant love of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Saint Andrew Community Church has been entrusted with a lifesaving and transforming message that we must share with others. Our witness is bold, compelling and fearless. Our mission advances when individuals become disciples of Jesus Christ and join God’s mission to make more disciples.
Vision
Our Vision is to join God in a journey of bringing new life, reconciliation, and the presence of Christ to all people, and to helping each person reflect the character of Christ.
Through our ministries, we desire to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with our community and to advance the presence and fulfillment of the Kingdom of God in every neighborhood. Saint Andrew Community Church is committed to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures, and the work of the Holy Spirit in conveying God’s truth and grace to all people.
What We Believe
We believe in the one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God the Father, is the creator of all things, including humanity. God made us in His image, male and female, and gave us the mandate to govern the earth and be co-creators with Him. God demonstrated His love for us by making the world and sending His son to save us. (Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:27-28, Luke 15:20-24, John 3:16)
God the Son, Jesus Christ, is fully divine and fully human. Jesus was God incarnate, meaning God in the flesh. He came to earth to save us and show the way to the Father. He lived a perfect life, died for our sins, and was raised to life on the third day. It was Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection that made us right with God. Therefore, Jesus is the only way to eternal life. Finally, we believe that Jesus will one day return to judge the living and the dead, destroy sin, death, and evil once and for all, and live forever with God’s people in a new heaven and a new earth (John 1:14; John 3:16, John 14:6, Romans 10:9, Matthew 16:27, Rev. 21).
God the Holy Spirit was sent by Jesus to guide, comfort, and empower the Church for witnessing, growing in holiness, and living the Christian life. The Holy Spirit convicts us of sin as the gospel is preached and conveys the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ to the human heart. The Holy Spirit awakens and equips us for ministry through the giving of spiritual gifts, which enable us to effectively serve God and serve others. (John 14:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:11, Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 12)
Salvation
Salvation is a gift of God’s grace. We cannot earn it; we accept it as a gift by believing Jesus came to save us from sin and death. God’s Prevenient Grace is at work in our lives before we even realize it, lovingly wooing us to faith. Through faith in Jesus, we experience Justifying Grace, the gift of forgiveness of our sins and the privilege of becoming His children. Through Sanctifying Grace, we become more like Christ, growing in holiness as we exhibit more of the fruit of the Spirit. Finally, through Glorifying Grace, we will one day receive a resurrected body and live forever with God. (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:1, Romans 8:14-17, 2 Cor. 3:18, Galatians 5:22-23, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, John 14:1-3)
The Christian Life
Christians are those who believe in Jesus as their Savior and confess Him as Lord. They love, worship, and obey Him. We live by Jesus’ ethic to love God and love our neighbor. We follow Jesus’ command to go into the world to share about God’s love with others and to teach them how to follow Christ. We are those who seek to grow in our relationship with God and our love for others by reading Scripture, praying, fellowshipping, worshiping with other Christians, receiving the sacraments, and fasting. And we are those who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, seek to join Jesus in His mission, to seek and to save the world and to advance His rule and reign on the earth (Luke 10:27, John 14:21, Matthew 28:19–20, Acts 2:42-47, Luke 19:10).
The Church
Jesus is Lord over the church, the Body of Christ— the community of believers. God did not intend for us to be alone. We are made to be in relationship with God and with others. At St. Andrew we experience this relationship through worship, fellowship, and as we reach out to our community and bear witness to God’s love and work in our lives. (Romans 12:4-5, Acts 2:42-47)
The church worships God by the power of the Holy Spirit to express our appreciation for all God has done for us through His Son. In worship, the church celebrates two sacraments, Baptism and Holy Communion, just as Jesus has commanded us. Baptism is a visible sign through water that we are united with Jesus Christ and the church by the Holy Spirit John 3. Holy Communion, or the Lord’s Supper, is a sacramental meal involving the sharing of bread and the fruit of the vine, symbolizing Jesus’ sacrifice of His body and blood for our sins. Through this holy meal we remember and receive God’s love, forgiveness, and grace (Matthew 28:9, Ephesians 4:4–6, Luke 22:19-20).
We believe that Christ is continually at work in the world to build His church, and that believers can participate in that work by living like Christ in the world, serving others, and inviting people to follow Jesus (Matthew 28:19-20, 1 John 3:17-18).
The Bible
The Bible contains the story of God and his people— how God created us, how we fell into sin, and the lengths that God went through to save us. We believe the Bible is set apart from other books because it is inspired by God. In 2nd Timothy 3:16 we read, “All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable to teaching, correcting, rebuking, and training.” Because the Bible is inspired, it is authoritative— it tells us how to live and how to please God, and what is true spiritually and morally. We believe the Bible is the Word of God and that it is the rule and authority for faith, morals, and service, against which all other claims must be measured.
At Saint Andrew we seek to not only be hearers of God’s Word, but also doers. When we live by God’s Word, we not only show our love to God, but it also has the power to change us and grow us up into maturity in Christ (James 1:22, John 14:15, 1 Peter 2:2).
The Family
“Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in a life-long commitment by God. It is God’s creative work in which He reveals a picture of the union between Christ and His Church. And through marriage God gives the man and the woman the framework for intimate companionship, the means for sexual expression according to biblical standards as well as the means for procreation of the human race.
The husband and wife are of equal and sacred worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship pictures the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the leadership of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.”