Stillwater Hill Community Church

Vision, Mission Statement, Core Values and Goals

We are committed to follow Jesus' great commandment and to fulfill His great commission (Mark 12:20-31; Matthew 28:19, 20), thus our passion (who we are), our vision (where we are going), our core values and goals are as follows:

1. Our Passion
   Stillwater Church is a church that is helping people discover, trust and love Christ
2. Our Vision
   Stillwater Church exists to be a loving, contagious and growing church that wholeheartedly follows Jesus' command to "go and make disciples of all nations."
3. Our Core Values
• Loving God in Worship
  We are deeply committed to personal and corporate worship. Our public worship services are Spirit-led, Christ-honoring, and Biblically-based (Psalm 34:3; John 4:23, 24).
• Loving People in Fellowship
  We are deeply committed to providing opportunities for our members to develop meaningful, growing, and lasting relationships (Acts 2:45, 46; Acts 5:42; Ephesians 4:32).
• Building People in Discipleship
  We are deeply committed to help each individual mature and grow in his or her faith (Ephesians 4:12b, 13; Colossians 1:28, 2:6, 7).
• Serving People in Ministry
  We are deeply committed to enlisting, equipping, and releasing each follower of Christ in our fellowship to "do the work of the ministry" (Ephesians 4:11, 12).
• Sending People in Mission
  We are deeply committed, as individuals and a congregation, to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Acts 1:8; 20:24).
4. Our Goals
   With God's help, in 3 to 5 years we envision our church accomplishing the following:
1. Doubling our present worship attendance with a growing percentage coming from the unchurched in our community.
2. To be a fully active church with 100% involvement in service.
3. To invest ourselves in world missions: locally, nationally, and internationally.

We are also committed to the 16 Principals of Faith of the Assemblies of God, which state in brief:

WE BELIEVE . . .

• . . . the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God.
• . . . there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
• . . . in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal, future return to this earth in power and glory to rule over the nations.
• . . . in the blessed hope, the rapture of the Church at Christ's coming.
• . . . the only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious blood of Christ.
• . . . regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for salvation.
• . . . in water baptism by immersion.
• . . . the redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides healing of the human body in answer to prevailing prayer.
• . . . the baptism in the Holy Spirit, according to Acts 2:4, is given to believers who ask for it.
• . . . in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life.
• . . . in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting damnation.