Why Are We?

God loves us individually, and has a liking for groups. He chose Israel to be His people. Jesus gathered a group of disciples to be with Him. Heaven is described as a large wedding feast, or a holy city and not one isolated person, however pure and lovely. We receive a child into our covenant community through the act of baptism before the whole c1urch. We celebrate communion with Jesus Christ and with one another through breaking bread and passing cups of juice.

As a church, we meet as pilgrims of the Christian faith. We are bound together by God's love, and together rejoice in the freedom from sin we have through Jesus Christ. We discover the sweet, small voice of the Holy Spirit in our singing together, praying together, studying together and serving together.

Presbyterians are sometimes admired for the manner in which our church is organized. Individual gifts and talents are shared in a variety of way within the church family and in the broader community. As we follow Jesus day by day, year after year, we discover we are growing in our love for one another and our neighbors. Because we believe that to be more loving is to be more like Christ, this is the answer to the question, "Why are we?"