vision

We desire to love people through participating in the movement of God’s love towards people.


NCF's priorities for carrying out this Vision are:


  • creating a climate of worship that is authentic and relevant

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  • Cultivating a community that invites and encourages spiritual growth

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  • proclaiming Christ’s teaching while

    Commissioning each person to love and serve others

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Our Guiding Principles

That we remain clear in our call to biblical faithfulness, recognizing that the Word of God is our final authority in all aspects of ministry, congregational life, programming, and outreach.

That our church will be based theologically on an evangelical Anabaptist understanding.

That we will seek to be welcoming and inclusive to all people who wish to worship and fellowship with us and that we will intentionally plan to integrate them.

That our focus will be an intentional attempt to move our ministry outside of our walls into the local community.

That membership means that we are open and accountable to the community of faith.


That we will employ a congregational model of church governance led by a team of church elders, including pastors.

That we will attempt to provide worship opportunities which will reflect our recent heritage, and also move us into new expressions of our corporate encounters with God.

Approaches

Niverville Community Fellowship's approaches to their priorities include:

  • Meeting together regularly to connect with the heart of God; to be inspired and changed by a new understanding of the will of God
  • Study of the Word of God that is fearless and communal
  • Discernment of gifts, strengths and learned skills within our fellowship that is honouring, encouraging, and illuminating
  • Service that begins with an understanding of Christian justice; moves to an awareness of the felt needs of others; results in discernment that demands action
  • Embracing the Anabaptist heritage of radical commitment to following the teachings of Jesus
  • Continuing the example set by Jesus to transform injustice in all its forms and to be an advocate for those at the edges of society

EMMC CONFESSION OF FAITH

1. God: We believe in the one holy and loving God, filled with glory, power and wisdom, who lives in eternal Trinity as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God, who created and sustains the physical and spiritual universe, desires a relationship with us.


2. Creation: We believe that all persons are made in the image of God with a capacity to make moral choices, and given the responsibility to manage creation. God desires all human life to begin in families where husband and wife are covenanted together under God for life.


3. Sin: We believe that sin is a rejection of God's rule, beginning with the rebellion of Satan and followed by Adam and Eve’s deliberate choice to disobey God. Because of sin everyone has fallen short of God’s will, creating a conflict with God, self, and others. The penalty for sin is physical and spiritual death.


4. Revelation: We believe that the Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God, the final authority for faith and life. God's revelation in the Old Testament through creation and the covenant was a preparation for the supreme revelation in the New Testament through Jesus Christ.


5. Jesus Christ: We believe in God the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human, who proclaimed the rule of God, lived a sinless life, died on the cross as payment for our sins, rose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, and reigns as Lord of all.


6. Salvation: We believe that salvation is a gift of God's grace, received through personal repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. Believers have assurance, forgiveness of sin, salvation from sin, reconciliation with God, and eternal life as they live in faith and obedience.


7. Holy Spirit: We believe in God the Holy Spirit who gives new life to all who have placed their faith in Christ. The Spirit, who indwells believers, continues to comfort, empower, gift, guide, and unite them to fulfill the mission of the church.


8. Discipleship: We believe that following Jesus as Lord in all of life means that the Christian life is characterized by love, integrity, purity, and simplicity. The believer’s commitment to Christ and the global church becomes the standard for discerning the level of participation in society.


9. Church: We believe that the Church is the visible body of believers, the global community of those who have placed their faith in Jesus Christ. Members of this body are covenanted together in local congregations and participate in the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper.


10. Peace and Reconciliation: We believe that God offers peace and reconciliation to all humanity through the work of Christ on the cross. Followers of Christ’s law of love affirm the sacredness of life as they make peace in personal, social, and international situations.


11. Mission: We believe that the mission of the Church is to make disciples in all the world by proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ in evangelism and compassionate ministries.


12. Christ’s Final Triumph: We believe in the return and reign of Jesus Christ, the final resurrection, the judgement of the unrighteous in hell and the eternal reward of the righteous in heaven.