Who We Are

Who We Are

We are a body of people from different walks of life who come together for fellowship, worship, and growth, a community committed to reconciliation with God and each other through Christ, with our social, racial, and cultural differences, and a home for many to come and be loved, get help with a variety of needs, and hear about the incredible, freeing love of God through Christ.

What We Do

Throughout the week, our church is filled with a diverse group of people who are learning how to walk with God, be empowered by the Holy Spirit, and articulate what a relationship with Jesus Christ really means. Our ministries focus on spiritual growth and the practical needs of individuals and families. In the end, we envision a church of healed and healing people,  a people who are restored to oneness with God, wholeness of self, and who have had broken relationships with others mended.  We see a people who can model, both in service and constituency, what the Kingdom of God looks like as a radical alternative to the broken and alienated world around us. We can see, with God’s grace and power at work in us, a church that models heaven in some small way, where people “from every tribe and tongue and people and nation” praise God together.

Our Commitments

We will be a grace-based church; therefore we share and model the grace of God in our church and to our neighbors through loving relationships.  We will be intentionally urban; therefore we stay in Harrisburg and focus ministries and resources to deal with the needs of the city. We will be a multi-ethnic diverse church; therefore we work to reflect our diverse cultures in worship styles and leadership roles. We seek to create a place where all of us can feel a sense of “Home.” We will be an intentional discipling church; therefore we create disciples who will in turn disciple others resulting in successive generations. We acknowledge that God is the ultimate discipler. Our goals are to journey with each other through one-to-one relationships and experience spiritual transformation in discipling and small groups and help each other to learn how to have vital relationships with Jesus Christ. We will be a place of God’s relational, emotional, and physical healing; therefore we acknowledge that God can heal in a variety of ways, including the miraculous. We will pray, counsel, disciple, and refer to other resources those who are open to God’s healing. We will be witnesses locally and in global ministries; therefore we train disciples to witness and share their own stories of God’s grace. We will also send missionaries to other nations and cultures as God calls them. We will be a church that pursues peace and reconciliation; therefore we encourage racial reconciliation through education, friendships, and small groups that help us understand, appreciate, and love others who are different than ourselves. We acknowledge that our unity is in Christ and that reconciliation is His gift to us. We will offer freedom in worship; therefore we teach and model that each person’s style of worship is respected. It is our goal to help people expand and try other worship styles without coercion and with understanding. We will be holistic in ministry; therefore we offer care to each person through ministries and resources that focus on the spiritual, mental, physical and emotional well-being and growth of a person. Each of these parts of a person influences the quality of the others and one’s overall well-being. Ministry that is holistic helps us to care for the whole person and teaches individuals how to bring the entirety of their lives under the Lordship of Christ. We will partner with other churches and christian ministries; therefore we proactively seek to be mutual and reciprocal in sharing of resources, knowledge and ministry. 

About the Brethren In Christ

For more than 200 years, the Brethren in Christ have expressed an understanding of living in relationship to Jesus shaped by the renewal movements of Anabaptism, Pietism, and Wesleyanism. This rich blend of theological transitions is what has made the Brethren in Christ who they are today. Read more…