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Sunday Service Times

9:15am Sunday School for all ages
10:30am Corporate Worship Service
Children's Church (age 4-2nd grade) meets during worship service sermon time
Nursery available during Sunday School & Worship Service

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office (at) faithchapelgb (dot) org

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What to expect when visiting Faith Chapel

We welcome all who come to worship with us, and we hope you will feel at home at Faith Chapel. Please feel free to pick up a visitor packet at our information center in our foyer during your visit.

A typical Sunday morning September through May goes as follows

9:15am Sunday School for all ages (4yrs through adult)
10:30am Corporate Worship Service with Children's Church (ages 4 - 2nd grade) that meets during the sermon time

For those with young children age 3 and under, we have a nursery available during all services. We also have a cry room located near the sanctuary entrance for your use.

Our corporate worship songs are grounded in Scripture, Christ-centered, gospel-focused, and contemporary in style. We sing a blend of hymns and modern worship choruses—songs written three months ago and songs written three centuries ago—all containing timeless truth from God’s Word that we proclaim and celebrate together for His glory.

If any other needs arise during your visit, our ushers will be more than happy to assist you.

*Sunday School and Children's Church take summer break Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend.

Our Leaders

Rev. Dylan Valliere
Senior Pastor

Tim Bergstrom
Elder

Brian Jacoby
Elder

Nic Sparacio
Elder

Missions

Faith Chapel has long been and remains committed to being a missions-prioritizing church family. We partner with multiple missionaries serving both domestically and abroad and regularly feature missions-themed updates and presentations as part of our corporate gatherings.

Operation Christmas Child

Every year we partner with Samaritan's Purse to pack and collect shoeboxes to be sent all over the world. These shoeboxes are filled with toys, hygiene items, and school supplies. They are then boxed and shipped to local church in many different countries. For most kids this may be the first, and only, gift they ever receive. Each box contains the Gospel message in their own language, and each child is invited to a 12-lesson discipleship program where they can learn more about becoming a Christ-follower. Learn more about Operation Christmas Child.

Safe families for children

Faith Chapel is supportive of Safe Families for Children, a faith-based movement committed to advocating for vulnerable children and providing support for socially-isolated families. There are many areas to serve in: host families, supportive families who offer financial or gift/talent support, behind-the-scenes volunteers, and more. Learn more about Safe Families for Children.

What We Believe

Our Purpose

We exist to worship God by enjoying relationship with him and one another through Jesus Christ.

Our Mission

For every believer to become, make, mature, and multiply fully-surrendered disciples of Jesus Christ.

Our core values

Scripture

We believe in the inerrancy, authority, sufficiency, and relevance of the Bible. The Old and New Testaments are the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice. The Bible must therefore be central in and applied to all of life and ministry (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

Gospel

We believe that faith in the good news of the person and work of Jesus Christ is essential for eternal salvation and for day-to-day Christian living (Acts 4:12; 1 Tim. 2:5; Rom. 1:15).

Worship

We believe that every believer is called into enjoying God and exulting in God: who God is and who God is for us in Christ. Every believer is called to a life of worship in response to God’s love poured out on us (Rom. 12:1; 1 Cor 10:31; Col. 3:17).

Holy Spirit

We believe in the biblical doctrine of the Trinity and that the Holy Spirit is a divine person sent to indwell, guide, teach, gift, empower, and bear his fruit in every believer. Only through surrender to, empowerment by, and cooperation with the work of the Holy Spirit can the believer live a God-honoring, righteous life (John 14:16–18; 16:13; 1 Cor. 12:4, 11; Acts 1:8; Gal. 5:22–23; Eph. 5:18).

Prayer

We believe that prayer is a divinely ordained means for every believer for experiencing relationship with God, glorifying God, participating in the work that God is doing in the world, and receiving grace from God (Mt. 6:5-15; 1 Thess. 5:17; Lk. 18:1-8; Ja. 4:2).

Biblical Worldview

We affirm the importance of developing a biblical worldview in order to see the world as God sees it and live life according to God’s Word (Rom. 12:1-2; Col. 2:8).

Great Commission

We believe that every believer is called by God to participate in the fulfillment of the Great Commission through discipleship; we have the privilege and responsibility to represent Christ to the world: locally, regionally, and to the ends of the earth. Since no one can be saved apart from hearing and believing the gospel, it is imperative that believers send missionaries throughout the world (Mt. 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Rom. 10:13-17).

Community of Believers: The Church

We believe that God has called all believers to be in relationship with one another for mutual edification and discipleship as we live “on mission” together. God gives all believers spiritual gifts to be used for the common good for the sake of Christian unity, maturity, and the knowledge of Jesus Christ. We value loving and serving one another as we seek to honor others above ourselves (1 Cor 12:4-11; Eph. 4:7-16; Heb. 10:24-25).

Our Statement of Faith

We affirm the Evangelical Free Church of America Statement of Faith:

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

The Bible

We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

The Human Condition

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

Jesus Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus – Israel’s promised Messiah – was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

The Work of Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

The Church

We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

Christian Living

We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

Christ’s Return

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

Response and Eternal Destiny

We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.

A congregational distinctive Statement of Faith affirmation which reflects our congregation's spiritual heritage includes

Healing

We believe that provision is made in the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ for the healing of the whole person. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil are taught in the Scriptures as privileges for the Church in this present age (Isa. 53:4–5; Matt. 8:16–17; James 5:13–16; Acts 4:30).

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