About Our Church
Our Beliefs & Values
Our mission is “To be a community of broken but growing followers of Jesus, led by the Spirit, seeking restoration with God, each other, and the world.” This work takes many different forms and happens in many different ways, but here are four core values that undergird, guide, and color everything that we do:
Peace Building
We proclaim and participate in God’s peaceful kingdom, working toward reconciliation and right relationship with God, each other, ourselves, and the created world.
Spiritual Formation
Rooted in scripture and guided by the Holy Spirit, we are on a journey to know God and live in the way of Jesus Christ. Practices like worship, prayer, study, and life together lead us ever deeper into the steadfast love and mercy of the One who is love.
Life Together
We seek to share our lives beyond Sunday morning – helping one another, celebrating together, being present to one another’s joys and sorrows.
Radical Hospitality
We welcome everyone, everyone, everyone. We welcome you.
Our Mission
We have sought to be a place where the love of Christ is evident and available for all. We want to value and love all who walk through our doors. We want our message to be relevant, meaningful, and filled with hope. As we enter 2024, we remain open to God’s guidance, wherever it may lead us.
Our Future
Our Purpose
We are considering the future of church and our purpose and mission. We have asked ourselves, what is the purpose of New Hope? Through a Consistory retreat and congregational circles, we answered:
- To be a place where everyone is welcomed, which means that sanctification is not required to be accepted – ALL people have value simply because they are.
- To embody the love of Jesus, which means that we extend grace and love ALL people – we love people who are not like us and who don’t think in the same way.
- To be good news for ALL people, with the message that they are loved by God more than they can know. To be a safe place to express doubts, fears, and wonderings, which means each person is able to express their own reality, their experiences, and all of who they are.
- To be a practice place, where we practice love and the way of Jesus, then are able to take what we learn out into the world as Christ’s representatives.
- To have companions on our faith journey of transformation, which means that we understand we don’t walk alone but need one another. We don’t think more highly of ourselves than of anyone else; we are all human and are at different places on our journey.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Reformed Church in America?
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a fellowship of congregations called by God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to be the very presence of Jesus Christ in the world. Our shared task is to equip congregations for ministry—a thousand churches in a million ways doing one thing—following Christ in mission, in a lost and broken world so loved by God. The Reformed Church in America is a mainline Reformed Protestant denomination in Canada and the United States and has about 85,000 members.
More about the theology of the Reformed Church in America can be found here: