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About Faith Presbyterian Church
What Do We Do?
Worship
Worship is our joyful expression of praise and adoration to God. Like the bread of the Lord’s Supper, worship nourishes us to serve God and neighbor. Like the waters of baptism, worship refreshes and invigorates us to be God’s people. We worship God through our proclamation of God’s word and through the celebration of the sacraments: baptism and communion. Our worship honors the best of our tradition while also embracing new, creative,  and emerging forms of worship. We offer a spiritually uplifting worship service that stimulates intellectually and speaks to the questions and challenges of our lives. Powerful, energetic, meaningful music is an integral part of our worship.
Making Disciples
What is a disciple? The gospels teach that they were the men and women who followed Jesus. They became like a family, sharing meals, worshipping together and supporting one another. They learned from Jesus and joined him in his ministries of healing, feeding, preaching and seeking justice. These are the folks who Jesus sent out to  share God’s message of love.
These were Jesus’ original disciples, and we claim them as our ancestors in faith. God continues to call us to be disciples of Jesus. He invites us to travel the journey of our lives with Jesus. As disciples, he calls us to share and love like a family, to learn and grow from Jesus, and to go out and share God’s love with others. To encourage discipleship, we will live and organize our ministries within three distinct but connected areas:
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Vision Statement
Faith Presbyterian Church faithfully and humbly accepts God’s greatest commandments to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind'” and “to love your neighbor as yourself'” (Matthew 22: 36-39).
Purpose Statement
Our purpose is to be a worshipping community who makes disciples by gathering in the name of God, gifting by the Holy Spirit, and going into the world to share the love of Jesus Christ.
In gathering, we encourage relational ministries by caring for and fellowshipping with one another. In gifting, we engage in educational and spiritual nurturing ministries. In going, we reach out in ministries of love, compassion and justice and invite others into relationship with Jesus. Through this vision and purpose, we affirm that “God created the world good and makes everyone equally in God’s image, male and female, of every race and people, to live in one community” (A Brief Statement of Faith, PCUSA). Therefore, we open our hearts, our arms, and our doors to people from all backgrounds, believing that we stand on common ground when we claim the indwelling presence of Jesus.
As we open our arms and hearts and doors, we envision God blessing and growing this community in nurture, calling, ministry and membership as we anticipate growing a worshipping community with membership between 700 and 900 in the decades to come. We own land almost directly across Hwy 521 from Sun City Carolina Lakes, and it is on this property that we plan to build. For one architectural vision of our future facilities, please click here.
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History
Providence Presbytery began dreaming, planning, praying and working toward the birth of this congregation back in 2004. In 2005, we appointed a New Church Development Commission, made up of elders and pastors from neighboring PC(USA) churches. That Commission has met monthly to lay the groundwork for the launching of this congregation. In April of 2007, the Commission called Rev. David M. Bender as the organizing pastor. The first worship services are scheduled for fall, 2007.
Organization
Faith Presbyterian Church is a member of Providence Presbytery and of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which is comprised of over 2.5 million Presbyterians and over 11,200 congregations. The organization of the church occurs within four governing bodies: local sessions provide leadership and direction for the individual congregations; individual congregations are grouped together by regions into Presbyteries; Presbyteries are grouped together by regions into Synods; and the General Assembly, which is headquartered in Louisville, KY, provides support, leadership and direction for all 11,200 congregations. We recognize that God calls both women and men into the leadership of God’s church, and we therefore ordain women and men as Elders and Ministers of the Word and Sacrament. For more on our church government, please visit www.pcusa.org.
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