Our Church's Vision
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Like living stones, be yourselves built into a spiritual
house, to be a holy priesthood. - 1 Peter 2:5 |
Saint Matthew has always been about the people. We are
the ones who are being built God's way. God's vision
began to be fulfilled at Saint Matthew in a ministry that
has been in place for more than 40 years. Our life
together has been blessed with an abundance of ministries in
the name of Christ and a wonderful fellowship of believers.
Imagine those first members who could foresee a church built
for God's glory in the middle of a walnut orchard!
Then imagine those who dared to picture a much larger
worship space where many more people could become part of
the Saint Matthew community.
For almost 10 years we have been growing toward this
building project, completing the campus and providing the
right building to serve the Mission of Saint Matthew:
We exist to invite people to faith in the living God, grow
and quip people to become fully devoted followers of Jesus
Christ, and serve others by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We envision God continuing to grow our
ministry to children, teens and their families. We
imagine that Saint Matthew is going to continue to be a
significant teaching parish for those who want to learn to
"do church" and be the church in a new way.
We want to increase adult education and small group
activities both on and off campus. We want our serving
staff to be minister who connect our congregation and
the whole valley.
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