Summary List of, and Links to, our Core Ministries
In-Reach Ministries
Administration – To assist pastors, staff, and ministry leaders; to help manage the affairs of the church and its respective ministries by maintaining organizational procedures, directories, records; and to effectively distribute church-wide communications using various media tools.
Christian Education – To provide Christ-centered and biblically-based educational opportunities to encourage those new in their faith to walk in wisdom and truth; provide a learning environment for those who are seriously seeking to learn first-hand about following Jesus Christ.
Discipleship Shepherding – To teach, equip, and encourage those in the Body of Christ to be growing, obedient, faithful, be fruitful followers of Jesus Christ, and to be ready to explain the hope that is within them concerning their assurance of salvation.
Leadership – To oversee the spiritual and physical needs of church body, through three leader boards (Session Elders, Diaconate Deacons & Trustee Members) who are nominated and approved by the Session, and then elected by the communicant members of the congregation.
Out-Reach Ministries
Community Services – To provide direct or indirect support for local programs and activities that primarily serve our Parkville neighbors.
Evangelism Outreach – To proclaim to everyone the message of salvation that comes by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone.
Fellowship – To be a congregation that fellowships one with another. We gather together to challenge each other, encourage each other, and help each other to be accountable, and stand in one accord. Fellowship is showing obedience to God and his word.
Missions – To equip, go, and send missionaries into all the world and preach the Gospel; to make disciples of all nations, to be witnesses of Jesus Christ.
Both In-reach & Out-Reach Ministries
Prayer – To be a church body that teaches, encourages, and practices both corporate and individual prayer to the glory of, and in the name of, Jesus Christ.
Worship – To worship our Triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with praise, prayer, celebration of the sacraments, and the proclamation of God’s inerrant Word.