Our Vision is to cultivate authentic lifelong relationships with Jesus Christ and others.

Our Mission is to sow the seed of God's Word into people's lives so that they experience His love, follow Him, and share His Gospel.

We live out our Vision and Mission through the Values of Relationship:

With God
- Study and follow the Word
- Pray and worship Him individually and corporately
- Give through tithes, offerings, and service
- Practice sacrificial obedience in daily living

With One Another
- Engage in the local church, small groups, and each other's lives
- Share meals and meet one another's needs as a Family of Families
- Disciple and be discipled
- Invest in all generations

With Our Neighbors
- Share the Gospel locally and globally
- Promote a Biblical worldview through education and counseling
- Engage in our community with hospitality
- Be a dependable resource to serve those in need

 

We believe that God is the sovereign creator of the universe, existing as one God in three persons (God the Father, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit). People are created in the image of God, and we are all sinners in need of redemption. That redemption came in the form of Jesus Christ, born to a virgin, both fully God and fully man, who lived a sinless life, was crucified, died, and resurrected on the third day. The gospel, or good news, is that by accepting Jesus Christ's redemptive act on your behalf, he becomes your Savior and rescues you from the punishment of sin, which is eternal separation from God. We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus and not by our own efforts. We believe that the Bible, the infallible Word of God, points to Jesus as the Messiah.  

 

The Statement of Faith which this church shall embrace, preach, and defend is specifically set forth in the “Statement of Faith” as follows:

  1. THE BIBLE: the Word of God. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, verbally inspired in all parts, and therefore wholly without error as originally given, by God (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21).
  2. THE ONE TRUE GOD: existing eternally as three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:22; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14).
  3. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST: His pre-existence and deity (John 1:1-3), incarnation by virgin birth (John 1:14; Matthew 1:18-23), sinless life (Hebrews 4:15), substitutionary death (2 Corinthians 5:21), bodily resurrection (Luke 24:36-43), ascension into Heaven and present ministry (Hebrews 4:14-16), and coming again (Acts 1:11).
  4. THE HOLY SPIRIT: His personality (John 16:7-15), and deity (Acts 5:3-4), and His work in each believer; baptism and indwelling at the moment of regeneration (1 Corinthians 13:13; Romans 8:9), and filling (Ephesians 5:18) to empower for Christian life and service (Ephesians 3:3-6; Acts 1:8; Galatians 5:22-23).
  5. MAN: his direct creation in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-28), his subsequent fall into sin resulting in spiritual death (Genesis 3:1-24; Romans 5:12), and the necessity of the new birth for his salvation (John 3:3-5).
  6. SALVATION: a complete and eternal salvation by God’s grace alone, received as the gift of God through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work (Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-6; 1 Peter 1:18-19).
  7. THE CHURCH: one true church, the body and bride of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-32), composed of all true believers of the present age (1 Corinthians 12:12-13), and the organization of its members in the local churches for worship, for edification of believers, and for world-wide Gospel witness; each local church being autonomous but cooperating in fellowship and work (Ephesians 4:11-16).
  8. CHRISTIAN LIFE: a life of righteousness, good works, and separation unto God from the evil ways of the world (Romans 12:1-2), manifested by speaking the truth (James 5:12), maintaining the sanctity of the home (Ephesians 5:22-6:4), settling differences between Christians in accordance with the Word of God (1 Corinthians 6:1-8), not engaging in carnal strife but showing a Christ-like attitude toward all men (Romans 12:17-21), exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), and maintaining a life of prayer (Ephesians 6:18, Philippians 4:6), including the privilege, when sick, of calling for the Elders of the church to pray and to anoint with oil in the name of the Lord (James 5:13-18).
  9. ORDINANCES: the Christian should observe the ordinances of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are: (1) baptism of believers by Triune immersion and (2) the threefold Communion Service, consisting of the washing of the saints’ feet (John 13:1-17), the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11:20-22, 33, 34; Jude 12), and the communion of the bread and cup (1 Corinthians 11:23-36).
  10. SATAN: his existence and personality as the great adversary of God and His people (Revelation 12:1-10), his judgment (John 12:31), and final doom (Revelation 20:10).
  11. SECOND COMING: the personal, visible, and imminent return of Christ to remove His Church from the earth (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17), before the Tribulation (1 Thessalonians 1:10, Revelation 3:10), and afterward to descend with the church to establish His millennial kingdom upon the earth (Revelation 19:11-20:6).
  12. FUTURE LIFE: the conscious existence of the dead (Philippians 1:21-23; Luke 16:19-31), the resurrection of the body (John 5:28-29), the judgment and reward of believers (Romans 14:10-12; 2 Corinthians 5:10), the judgment and condemnation of unbelievers (Revelation 20:11-15), the eternal life of the saved (John 3:16), and the eternal punishment of the lost (Matthew 25:46; Revelation 20: 15).

 

Charis Fellowship
Penn Valley Church is a member of the Charis Fellowship, which is a global network of churches. Learn more about the Charis Fellowship in this short video: