We are a gathering of Christians who worship the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  We affirm very strongly that Jesus is our Lord, and we believe that our life in God is the result of God's seeking us out through Jesus.  As Jesus has sought, and found us, we come to baptism in response to what God does in the creation through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.  When we are baptized, whether as adults or children, we are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, we are marked with the cross of Christ forever, and we become the children of God.

We gather weekly that we might be nourished in our Lord and His word for us.  Our nourishment that comes in our weekly "family of God" gathering where we pray together, confess our sins and receive God's Word of forgiveness, sing together, listen together to Scripture and sermon, and have offered to us the meal we call "Holy Communion." 

Weekly Pastor Ed presides at our family meal giving us the bread that he, and we believe, is the body of Christ, and various of our brothers and sisters serve us the wine that we believe is the blood of Christ.  Holy Communion is given that we might be nurtured in the kingdom of God that is to come - a meal, a feast, for all who come to the table having been baptized and in whatever way, whether boldly or weakly, believing that Jesus is truly present to us in this weekly feast. 

We are evangelical in that we seek to bear the good news of Jesus and his redemption of us, and of all who come to believe upon him, into the world.  We hope that many will hear the good news we proclaim.  We know the world around us is filled with all sorts of claims and clamors, some very good and some very deadly, whether openly deadly or disguised deadly.  We remember our Lord came into the world not to condemn the world but to save it.  We hope by our actions and dispositions we contribute to salvation rather than condemnation, life rather than death.

Having been nurtured in the kingdom to come in our weekly family of God gathering, we invite all who worship here, whether formal members or not, to help with a variety of "ministries" (actions of service to and in the world to a great variety of people) such as our Prayer Shawl Ministry, our newly emerging "My Neighbor's Kitchen," our regular collecting of canned goods for the South York Food Pantry, our assistance to various Southern Communities Services initiatives (e.g., toys to a needy family at Christmas, back to school supplies), our "Hot Dog Ministry" and our "Bicycle Repair Ministry."