Values, Vision and Mission

If you take the time to explore our website, you will discover why we do what we do. Our vision gives us purpose.

What we value

As a community of people, we value family, loving relationships and being a place to belong. We value integrity and having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

What we are

Our purpose is to provide a place of belonging to anyone that needs it; so they can learn to love God, love themselves and love others in return.

We are real people, with real needs who have a real hope through a relationship with Jesus Christ to offer anyone who needs it.

What we intend to be

We exist to be a community of Christ-followers that live authentically, to love genuinely and to lead so as to inspire others to want to know Jesus.

We also exist to reconcile broken relationships between people and God and between each other.

It is our intention that we develop as many as possible into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ, teaching them to give of themselves in serving God and others through the way they live their lives.

It is our intention to live, love and lead as a mirror image of Jesus Christ to all that live in Williams Lake and the world.

What we believe

Statement of Faith of the Christian & Missionary Alliance Church in Canada.

1. There is one God¹ who is infinitely perfect², existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit³.
2. Jesus Christ is true God and true man⁴. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary⁵. He died upon a cross, the Just for the unjust, as a substitutionary sacrifice, and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. He rose again from the dead according to the Scriptures⁶. He is now at the right hand of the Majesty on high as our great High Priest⁷. He will come again to establish His kingdom of righteousness and peace⁸.
3. The Holy Spirit is the divine Person, sent to indwell⁹, guide, teach and empower the believer, and to convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment¹⁰.
4. The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, were verbally inspired by God and are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of people. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice¹¹.
5. Humankind, originally created in the image and likeness of God¹², fell through disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All people are born with a sinful nature, and are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ¹³. The destiny of the impenitent and unbelieving is the existence forever in conscious torment, but that of the believer is everlasting joy and bliss¹⁴.
6. Salvation has been provided only through Jesus Christ. Those who repent and believe in Him are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit and are thereby regenerated (born again), justified, sanctified and given the gift of eternal life as adopted children of God¹⁵.
7. It is the will of God that in union with Christ each believer should be sanctified thoroughly¹⁶ thereby being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to God, receiving power for holy living and sacrificial and effective service toward the completion of Christ’s commission¹⁷. This is accomplished through being filled with the Holy Spirit which is both a distinct event and a progressive experience in the life of the believer¹⁸.
8. Provision is made in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the healing of the mortal body. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil as taught in the Scriptures are privileges for the Church in this present age¹⁹.
9. The universal Church, of which Christ is the Head, consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and commissioned by Christ to go into all the world as a witness, preaching the Gospel to all nations²⁰. The local church, the visible expression of the universal Church, is a Body of believers in Christ who are joined together to worship God, to observe the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to pray, to be edified through the Word of God, to fellowship, and to testify in word and deed to the good news of salvation both locally and globally. The local church enters into relationship with other likeminded churches for accountability, encouragement, and mission²¹.
10. There shall be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; for the former, a resurrection unto life²²; for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment²³.
11. The second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ is imminent and will be personal and visible²⁴. As the believer’s blessed hop, this vital truth is an incentive for holy living and sacrificial service toward the completion of Christ’s Commission²⁵.

Excerpt from 2002 Manual of the C&MA in Canada, pp. 26-27