We exist to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to glorify God, and to equip others to go into the world and do the same.

To be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ to our community, to our state, to our Country, and to the ends of the Earth.

To help all live full and abundant lives in/through Jesus Christ and to destroy the works of the devil. John 10:10

To become a transformational community living out the gospel of Jesus Christ together:

•Changing lives • Changing families • Changing our world

• We value and are committed to the truthfulness, trustworthiness, and authority of the Bible.

• We value and are committed to strong pastoral leadership for the purpose of encouraging, inspiring fellowship, and taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the Earth.

• We value and are committed to prayer.

• We value and are committed to reaching others.

• We value and are committed to dynamic worship.

• We value and are committed to discipleship and spiritual growth.

• We value and are committed to biblical stewardship.

• We value and are committed to innovation, creativity, and excellence.

• We value and are committed to integrity, credibility, and unity.

• We value and are committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ as delivered to us through the Bible.

• We value and are committed to turning to God and growth in Christlikeness as God’s will for every believer.

• We value and are committed to authentic and loving relationships that build up the community of believers.

• We value and are committed to effective communication of God’s timeless truth in relevant ways.

• We value and are committed to all believers as ministers, serving according to their spiritual giftedness.

• We value and are committed to measurable advancement toward accomplishing our church’s mission.

• We value and are committed to the building and supporting of healthy family relationships.

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.

There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. …He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.

Man is the special creation of God, in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation…By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race…The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every person of every race possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners…All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted inChrist, and sanctified by His Spirit will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.

Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water …It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members…memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations...to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.

It is our belief that every day is the Lord’s day, however we will choose to gather together on the first day of the week to commemorate the resurrection of Christ from the dead and employ in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end…Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly…the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell…The righteous… will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.

God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions. They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time, talents, and material possessions.

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood or adoption.

Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime...The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God's image. 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 headship 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.

We are not Calvinistic or Arminian, we are somewhere in the middle. We believe that all men and women are depraved in sin and elected by God for salvation, yet it is a free will decision made by man/woman to accept salvation and surrender his/her life unto the Lord. We believe that God has a purpose for every man and woman, yet it is a free will decision made by man/woman to surrender to that purpose.

We do not believe that man/woman can lose their salvation. Christ died once and for all sin and therefore cannot return to die for sin again, Romans 6:1-18. Or belief is this, “Once saved always saved, it truly saved.” As long as we live in these sinful bodies we will be subject to the sinful nature within us, Romans 7:14-25.

We believe in the “Full Gospel of Giftings.” This means that we believe in the Charismatic giftings such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophesy. On the matter of speaking in tongues, we at The Refuge Church believe that there are two gifts given by the Holy Spirit in regards to the gift of tongues. The first is the gift of tongues spoken in a prophetic manner to which Paul mentions in 1st Corinthians 14:20-33. We also believe that there is the gift of tongues given in the form of a prayer language. Paul refers to this in 1st Corinthians 14:2, 15. The praying in tongues is to be prayed silently to one’s self. In regards to prophesying in tongues one must get approval from the Senior Pastor and an interpreter must be found before speaking aloud to the congregation.