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About Our Church

We exist to help people share in the great story and mission of God by following the way of Jesus. 
Our mission is accomplished when we give opportunities to continue the narrative of grace and redemption by giving real HELP, offering real HOPE, and showing real LOVE to real people.

We invite you to share in our community through:
>> Your Story - you are here for a reason
>> Jesus' Mission - what you do matters
>> Our Gatherings - we can do more together
What to Expect
Visiting a church for the first time can be nerve-racking. But having an idea of what to expect can help. At the Orchard, there are three main parts to every Sunday gathering: preaching, worship, and communion.

>> Preaching - We preach Jesus. And while this might mean you’ll learn some things on how to be a better person, how to have a better marriage, or how to be more fulfilled in life — that’s not really the point. Because without Jesus, nothing matters. It’s because of Jesus that we can be a better person. Only Jesus can make a marriage better. And true fulfillment is only found in Jesus. This means we teach from the Bible, because the Bible is all about Jesus. Often we’ll go through whole books of the Bible a bit at a time, to show you what the whole Bible teaches and how it relates to Jesus. The messages include opportunities for discussion, questions, and reflection from the community at large.

>> Worship - Worship is the giving of honor, attention, devotion and resource to someone or something which takes the role of functional primacy over or within us. Biblically, worship is to be reserved for our creator and any failure or misdirection of the worship due Him is called idolatry. Many of our crises, from pastoral counseling to church government to besetting sin to public moral collapse, are simply expressions of idolatry -- of having set the wrong deity in the place of honor, devotion, and sacrifice, of having given our hearts, minds, soul, and strength to someone or something which does not rightly belong in the place of God. In light of that, we teach a lifestyle of worship that recognizes Jesus as King. Within our service, we often express our worship with songs, readings, prayers, and confessions.

>> Communion - For us, Communion is not merely a religious ritual; it is fellowship and involvement in the grace of Christ and the life of his body, the Church. We celebrate Communion every Sunday in our gathering. Through Communion we proclaim the life, death, resurrection and soon-coming return of Jesus Christ. Communion also reminds us that we have forgiveness of sin through Jesus and that we are partners in his work and Gospel. We invite all who profess faith in Jesus Christ to join us in celebrating Communion.
We are committed to sharing the Story of God, 
living in the Kingdom of God, and joining in the Mission of God.