A. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were verbally inspired by God, inerrant in the original writings, and are the sole authority for faith and practice. Further, we believe that God has preserved His word through reliable documents and translations through the ages.

B. We believe in the triune God, one eternally existing in three persons: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

C. We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary. He is everything that God is, that all the attributes assigned to God are present in Him, and He is everything that man is, except sinful, that all the attributes assigned to man are present in Him, except the sinful nature.

D. We believe in the physical resurrection of the Lord, His ascension, and His present activities as our High Priest and Advocate.

E. We believe that Jesus Christ is the sole means of man's salvation and the sole mediator between God and man.

G. We believe in the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ as a propitiation for our sins, and that all who appropriate His finished work on the cross to their own lives are justified in the eyes of God. That all who accept Him as their Lord and saviour by faith are born again and become the children of God. All who believe in Jesus Christ are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, baptized into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit.

H. We believe in the preservation of the saints, that there is no one or no thing which can separate the believer from Jesus Christ.

I. We believe that the Church is God's vehicle for accomplishing His purpose on earth at this time. The purpose of the Church is two fold: to minister to the saints, and to evangelize the lost.

J. Further, We hold to these elements of Ecclesiology, practices in the Church:

1. Baptism of believers by immersion

2. A membership of baptized believers only

3. Separation of Church and state

4. Soul Liberty

5. The Lord's supper being an ordinance and not a sacrament

6. Autonomy of the local Church

7. Priesthood of the believer

K. We believe in the personal return of Jesus Christ to this world to establish his kingdom and to reign for a millennium.

L. We believe that He will catch the Church up, rapture, prior to the beginning of a seven year period called the tribulation, which will be accomplished just prior to His second coming.

M. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all humanity: The first resurrection being for those in Christ, and the second being for all those who died outside the Lord.

N. We believe in a literal heaven and a literal hell, both the eternal dwelling place of humanity, heaven for the believer and hell for the lost.

O. We believe that our Lord, Jesus Christ, has commissioned the Church and its individual members to spread the Gospel of Salvation to a dying world.

Our Covenant

God helping us, we pledge, that as strangers and pilgrims we will abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul; that we will put away from us all the bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, and be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven us; as we have opportunity we will do good unto all men, especially unto them that are of the household of faith; that we will have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but will rather reprove them; that we will contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints, will bring our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; will keep the ordinances as they were delivered unto us, will confess our faults to one another, and will pray for one another; that we will remember them which have rule over us, who speak unto us the word of God; that we will give as God has prospered us, not grudgingly nor of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver; that we be not eased and others burdened; that whatsoever we do, we will do it heartily as unto the Lord and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord we shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for we serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

Relying upon the grace of God, we will endeavor to make our walk conform to this covenant and not to it alone, but to all of God's revealed will for holy living as contained in His precious Word.

We moreover pledge that when we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other Church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God's Word.