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Mission | Vision | Values | History

is to worship God together in love, to meet people with the gospel of Jesus Christ where they are in their walk with God and relationships with others, and to equip believers for a purposeful and productive Christian life and ministry.

1. The mission of Plymouth Congregational Church is to reach out to our community in the name of Jesus Christ as a unique body of believers who love one another and love others as they are, with an evangelistic concern and initiative.

2. The mission of Plymouth Congregational Church is to offer counsel, encouragement, benevolence, and assistance to those who are struggling with their family and/or interpersonal relationships.

3. The mission of Plymouth Congregational Church is to equip Christians to have a fulfilling life through sound Biblical teaching, as well as by speaking clearly to the issues of our day as God's Word relates to them.

4. The mission of Plymouth Congregational Church is to equip Christians to be reproducing disciples through assimilating believers into the active service of the church by helping them to identify, develop, and use their spiritual gift(s); and to seek to fulfill the mandate of the Great Commission in our community and our world.

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Vision

The vision of PCC is to be a body of Christians devoted to excel as disciples of Jesus Christ, committed to being a learning community. Through formal and informal means, relying upon prayer, God's Word and the Holy Spirit, we will help each other learn how to:

Worship God more reverently and enthusiastically,
Become equipped to more effectively handle life and ministry,
Care for one another more deeply and thoroughly,
Reach out to others more lovingly and redemptively.

This includes the process whereby we will enter into mentoring relationships as a church, to be mentored by at least one other church and become a mentoring church for other churches.

Values

1. We value GOD AND HIS WORD. Our primary passion is one of knowing God better, learning and practicing His Word more fully, and growing in our ability to help others value God and His Word.

2. PRAYER is one of our foundational values. Our vision statement will beckon us to become more intimate with God and more skilled in ministries of prayer: as individuals, in small group prayer experiences, and in congregational prayer.

3. We feel a GROWING WORSHIP EXPERIENCE is a key value. The idea of "growing" compels us to move beyond "growing in the techniques of worship" to becoming avid learners of what worship really is. Our vision urges us to learn to worship more Biblically: in congregational assemblies, in small groups, and individually as a joyous discipline and as a consistent lifestyle.

4. Being a COMMUNITY THAT CARES DEEPLY is vital to who we are. We have a passion that compels us to learn how to be more consistent, more all-inclusive, more genuine, and more effective in communicating that care to one another and to others. This will better enable us to grow as a healing community.

5. We value a PERSON-CENTERED FOCUS. God's people and all people are important, younger and older. Single persons, single parents, all individuals and family units are valued by God and by us. We will grow in our ability to plan ministries for and with all ages in our church, and focus more on persons than on programs.

6. GOD'S CHURCH IN ITS DIVERSE AND MULTI-GENERATIONAL FORM is central to what we consider important. We will strive to excel in understanding the contribution each person can make to the life and ministry of our church regardless of denominational background, ethnic background, age, or sex. It is understood that our doctrinal position and constitution will provide the framework for providing parameters to this emphasis on unity while respecting diversity.

7. It is important to us to cherish FELLOWSHIP, HOSPITALITY, AND THE PERSONAL TOUCH. Fellowship is a deep degree of closeness and mutual concern, and our desire is to enhance those relationships that produce closeness and concern. Hospitality is literally a love of strangers, so we continue to open wider our hearts and our church doors to newcomers. A devotion to the personal touch causes us to notice those media which are important in the life of each person.

8. THE FAMILY is extremely important to us, and we focus on the traditional family as the best expression of this basic unit of society. We are zealous about nurturing marriages and families, and about understanding better how to include single persons and single parents in our church family and ministry matrix.

9. GROWTH, OPTIONS, OPPORTUNITIES are of great value, as we recognize the Bible's emphasis upon the disciple of Christ as a life-long learner. We are eager to provide an ever-expanding array of possibilities, which will allow each Christian at Plymouth to fully discover, develop, and deploy his/her spiritual giftedness.

10. We value THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE, and this includes our Christian heritage as a congregation, the expanding mission God is placing before us to impact the present generations, and the glorious future He has for us in this world, but especially in the next.

11. EVERY CHRISTIAN A MINISTER is a Biblical concept to which we hold dearly. We seek to more effectively understand and apply the principles of the "meta-church model," which emphasizes that all Christians, including elders and ordained ministers, labor side by side as equals in carrying out the ministry of the church. We are zealously excited about becoming increasingly more open to, and committed to, the possibilities God has for us.

12. GOD'S MISSION IN THE WORLD is central to our reason for existence. Jesus said that just as the Father sent Him into the world, so He sends us into the world. We are earnest about continuing to develop that posture which causes us to link arms to impact the world for Christ; we advance into enemy territory to bring people to Christ and to maturity in Him.

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