About Us

Who Is Covenant
At Covenant, there is a blend of fresh and traditional approaches. We are a family of women, men, youth and children who worship God as revealed in Jesus Christ, and who work to support each other in our Christian walk. We are a vital and loving group of people genuinely seeking to grow in Christ and to be transformed by our faith.

Mission Statement
To reach out to those around us, receive people with genuine warmth and hospitality, relate our lives to God and to one another, equip each other as Christian disciples through small group ministry, and to go out into the world to make it more loving and just in the name of Christ.

What We Believe

As Christians, we…

•    echo Judaism in our understanding of God as creator of the world; that God has entrusted this world to our keeping; and that God has acted through human history and continues to act today.
•    follow in the footsteps of the early Christian church in seeing that, in Jesus as the Christ, God is made known in the fullest way possible – in the flesh as a human person, that God restores health and wholeness, and that our forgiveness is made concrete and real in the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus as the Christ; in celebrating the resurrection of Jesus as the affirmation that God reigns over death as well as life; and in  proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord, though we have different ways of understanding the meaning of this vital affirmation.
•    proceed from the later Christian church in our belief in the Triune God – Father (Creator), Son (Redeemer), and Holy Spirit (Sustainer); in recognizing how rituals, signs, and symbols can help us to reach toward God in Christ; and in understanding that our faith can be given direction and our discipleship can be expressed within the world church and its organization.
•    draw from the Protestant Reformation in acknowledging that salvation is both a new and a restored relationship with the Divine Life, and that it comes through our response in faith to God’s grace; that Scripture is the primary source and guideline for each teaching of the church; that we each have the opportunity and responsibility to read the Bible as members of the Christian fellowship even when we study alone; and that the church is the “priesthood of all believers.”
•    emulate the Church of England in recognizing that the church’s theology and decisions must be soundly based upon Scripture, tradition, and reason; and in affirming the two sacraments recognized by most Protestants: Baptism and Holy Communion.

As United Methodists, we…

•    respect diversity in theology. As long as our beliefs are rooted in the essentials of the Christian faith, these differences enhance our understanding of God and challenge us to grow in faith.
•    acknowledge God’s prevenient grace: God’s love that precedes all human decision and endeavor, and that continually awakens us to His good and life-giving purposes.
•    find justification and assurance through God’s reaching out to us with an accepting and pardoning love, often with a decisive change in the human heart through the prompting of the Holy Spirit.
•    believe that God’s acceptance and pardon does not end God’s saving work, which continues growing in grace.  Through this sanctifying grace, we move ever closer toward Christian perfection and wholeness.
•    see God’s grace and human activity working together, as God’s grace calls forth a human response of devotion and discipline. The evidence of salvation is seen in works of piety and works of mercy.
•    believe that personal salvation always involves Christian mission and service to the world. Heart and hands are joined as we strive for personal and social holiness. The love of God is always linked with love of neighbor.