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Mission Statement: The Salvage Yard is a community of believers that rescues and restores broken people for Jesus.
Statement of Faith:
1. God eternally exists as the perfect love of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 2. We believe God’s love is definitively revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, lived a life of complete surrender to the Father, was crucified, died, was buried, and bodily resurrected to reconcile the world to God and give new life to those who by faith participate in his death and resurrection. Christ’s work on the Cross is the bedrock of our belief in the forgiveness of sin and our eternal redemption. We firmly believe that all are welcome at the foot of the Cross. 3. It is the will of God that each believer should be filled with the Holy Spirit and be sanctified wholly, being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to the will of God, thereby receiving power for Holy living and effective service. This is both a crisis and a progressive experience wrought in the life of the believer subsequent to conversion. 4. The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of people. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice. 5. All people are sinners and need to have a saving relationship with God. People are made children of God when they repent of their sin, place their trust in Jesus Christ, and commit their life to Him. 6. The church consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, and are born again of the Holy Spirit. Christ is the head of the body, the Church, which has been commissioned by Him to go into all the world as a witness. The local church is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together for the worship of God, for edification through the Word of God, for prayer, fellowship, and the proclamation of the gospel. 7. There will be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust: for the former, a resurrection unto life; for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment. Those who have been reconciled to God through Christ will be resurrected to eternal life and fellowship with God. Those who have chosen to reject the salvation of God through Christ will be resurrected to judgment and eternal separation from God. Key Areas of Ministry:
Rescue — we will plan and implement a variety of creative efforts to bring people to Jesus.
- culturally relevant communication of the gospel
- practical demonstration of God’s love
- going to people who normally do not attend church
- going to places where Christians normally do not go
Restore — we will provide opportunities for new and old Christians to become a healthy community of believers that is: - devoted to the Word of God
- devoted to each other
- devoted to worship
devoted to prayer
Ministry Teams — we will develop rescue and restoration teams to do the work of the ministry Prayer base — we will develop consistent, passionate, specific prayer for the work of rescuing and restoring people for Jesus. Key Values
Courage — we are committed to living lives that are marked by courage. Jesus mentions the cowardly when describing people that fall under God’s judgment in Revelation 21. Lack of courage reveals a distorted understanding of God’s goodness, power, and faithfulness. It reveals a faithless heart. We will not let fear, laziness, comfort, or boredom keep us from doing anything that God calls us to do as a church. Holiness — in a culture that calls good “evil” and evil “good” we chose to live by God’s standard of holiness. We will not cut corners. We choose to be ruthless in our personal battles with sin and even the good things that keep us from God’s best. Our God is holy and we want, by his grace and power, to reflect his character in all that we do and all that we are as a church. Humility — we recognize that we are one expression of the universal church. We are grateful for those who have gone before us. The many other local churches and ministries are our brothers and sisters in Christ. We do not tolerate any derisive or negative comments or attitudes toward the rest of the body of Christ. God is against the proud. In our lives and in our ministries we value and pursue a humble attitude. Honesty — the first sin that the Holy Spirit dealt with in the church was that of hypocrisy (Acts 5), pretending to be something you are not. We are committed to being transparent with God and each other, and we refuse to put on a show in our worship, our preaching, or our community life. Change — God calls us to a lifestyle of change. He wants to change our character all the way up to our last day. We will call people to change—it is part of being rescued and restored. We also will not hold on to any forms of ministry if God is no longer in them. There is a season for everything, and change is a sign of life. Leadership Structure
The Salvage Yard Church is led by a group of men and women recognized as elders by the community. They are responsible for guarding the vision of the church, overseeing and evaluating ministries and staff, defending and protecting the doctrine of the church, overseeing financial matters, and shepherding the community.
Ministry Structure
Every member of the Salvage Yard is expected to be led by the Spirit into a lifestyle of rescuing and restoring people at home, work, and school or through church ministries. Official Salvage Yard ministries will be led by qualified and approved individuals who will develop and shepherd ministry teams. The ministry leaders will he encouraged, trained, held accountable, and be given the necessary available resources by the elders and staff. |
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