ABOUT US
ABOUT US
Our Elders, Deacons, and staff members are committed to growing the Body of Christ in purity, maturity, and unity through the liberty and charity of the Spirit. Please contact us for any support, questions, or guidance.
Chris
Prins
Director of Music
Becki
Prins
Music Coordinator
David
Romeo
Administrator
Lighthouse
Mary Ann
McMartin
Bookkeeper
Brian
McMartin
Building Manager
Matlock
Bobechko
Senior Pastor
Gino
Girone
Evangelist
Rod
Hembree
Associate Pastor
What We Believe
We are a Godfearing, Bible-believing, Trinitarian church full of gospel joy in the heart of downtown Orangeville.
We affirm the historic Christian creeds––Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, and Chalcedonian Definition––as essential summaries of Scripture and boundary markers for preserving Christian orthodoxy and the ancient faith once for all delivered to the saints.
The following beliefs present a very short summary of our Statement of Faith.
We believe in one true God, eternally existing in three coequal, coeternal persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—one in essence, power, and majesty. The Father is the source of all being, the Son is eternally begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son.
We believe in Jesus Christ, truly God and truly man, one person with two natures, the eternal Son who became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, lived sinlessly, died as our substitute on the cross, rose bodily, ascended, reigns as Lord, intercedes as High Priest, and will return in glory to judge the living and the dead.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father through the Son. He convicts the world of sin, righteouesness, and judgement. He regenerates, indwells, sanctifies, empowers, bestows gifts, and unites believers to Christ and His Church, transforming us into the likeness of Christ as partakers of the divine nature.
We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the inspired, inerrant, God-breathed Word of God—authoritative, infallible, and sufficient for salvation, doctrine, and life. Scripture is the supreme rule of faith and practice.
We believe in the holy angels, created spiritual beings who serve God and minister to the heirs of salvation. We also believe in the fallen angels—Satan and his demons—who rebelled against God and now oppose His kingdom, defeated at the cross and will be cast into the lake of fire at the end of all things.
We believe humanity was created by God in His image, male and female, to rule the earth and to enjoy fellowship with Him forever, but fell through Adam’s disobedience, inheriting a corrupt nature and spiritual death––alienation from God. All are under God’s just wrath and unable to save themselves apart from divine grace.
We believe salvation is by God's sovereign love and grace through faith in Christ alone—chosen before the foundation of the world, justified by Christ’s blood, progressively sanctified by the Spirit, and finally glorified at His return. True faith perseveres in holiness and good works––faith working through love in truth.
We believe in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church—the body and bride of Christ—both visible and invisible, called out of the world to worship God, proclaim the gospel, make disciples, edify the saints, administer the sacraments, and build Christ’s kingdom. We believe that its two offices are elders and deacons serve under the lordship of Christ, the Head of His body. There is no ordinary salvation apart from union with Christ in His Church.
We believe Christ instituted the ordinances of Baptism and Communion as greater sacraments of the gospel, together with the apostolic sacraments––Reconciliation, Anointing, Ordination, and Matrimony––as real means of grace received by faith. We also believe God created marriage as the lifelong covenantal union of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, reflecting Christ and His Church.
We believe in the blessed hope of Christ’s glorious return, the bodily resurrection of all people, the final judgment, the new heavens and new earth, and the eternal destiny of the righteous in the presence of God and the unrepentant in the lake of fire.