WHO ARE WE - Evangelical Lutheran Church

What is our mission at Evangelical?

It is simply….. to be the community of people whose life, teaching, worship, service, and mission are lived out in imitation of Jesus Christ and His earliest community of followers – the Church of the New Testament. In our teaching and preaching from the Bible, you will see the relevance of Jesus Christ to all of life’s races, nationalities, ages, languages, and socio-economic backgrounds – all seeing what they have in common: broken people in need of a Savior. And in Christ, they find the loving community they have been longing for.

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Mission Statement

WE, the members of Evangelical Lutheran Church, remain firm in our belief that Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, calls us to this time and in this place to be His witnesses and His ministers.

WE believe that our personal resources of time, talent and treasure, and our corporate church facilities should be used to proclaim the Gospel in our community, state, nation, and the world.

WE pledge to support each other in prayer, to do His will, and share our knowledge and faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior with fellow believers and non-believers.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
Amen.
Matthew 19-20 (KJV)

CORE VALUES of the NALC (North American Lutheran Church)

Christ Centered

We confess the apostolic faith in Jesus Christ according to the Holy Scriptures. We affirm the authority of the Scriptures as the authoritative source and norm, “according to which all doctrines should and must be judged” (Formula of Concord). We accept the ecumenical creeds and the Lutheran Confessions as true witnesses to the Word of God.

Mission Driven

We believe that the mission of the Church is to preach the Gospel and to make disciples for Christ. We believe that making disciples — in our congregations, in our communities and nations, and around the world — must be a priority of the Church in the present age.

Traditionally Grounded

We affirm the ecumenical creeds and the faithful witness of the Church across time and space. We endorse the form and practices of the universal Church that are consistent with Scripture, particularly the office of the ministry and the tradition of worship under Word and Sacrament. We seek dialogue and fellowship with other Lutheran churches and with faithful Christians of other confessions.

Congregationally Focused

We strive to be a church that is organized to facilitate the ministries of local congregations in a posture of servanthood and a spirit of partnership, through the provision of resources, connections and information.