Since our beginning in 1954, Grace Missionary Church has sought to live out the gospel within our community, aiming to meet spiritual, relational, and physical needs of individuals and families. Though our church looks different than when we first began, our focus remains consistent: proclaiming the good news of who Jesus is, what He has done for us, and how we're to live in response to Him.
Every disciple of Jesus is still charged with the same mission that the first disciples were given: As the Father has sent Me, I also send you. Go and make disciples of all peoples (John 20:21, Matthew 28:19-20). This mission is why we do what we do as a local church in Celina.
As a church family, we pursue disciple-making by connecting with others to grow together in Jesus. Becoming a disciple, and living as a disciple, is not done in isolation; disciples are made in community with other disciples. It is in this disciple-making community that transformation happens. As we rely on the Holy Spirit, and as we believe God's Word, we take steps to the right towards Jesus, becoming more like Him.
Our maturity as disciples becomes evident in our engagement with three types of relationships: God (Up), those in the church (In), those outside the church (Out). Therefore, at Grace, we're intentional in providing opportunities for people to abide in Jesus (Up), grow as a family (In), and connect with their neighbors (Out).
This is who we are and what we're about.
Every disciple of Jesus is still charged with the same mission that the first disciples were given: As the Father has sent Me, I also send you. Go and make disciples of all peoples (John 20:21, Matthew 28:19-20). This mission is why we do what we do as a local church in Celina.
As a church family, we pursue disciple-making by connecting with others to grow together in Jesus. Becoming a disciple, and living as a disciple, is not done in isolation; disciples are made in community with other disciples. It is in this disciple-making community that transformation happens. As we rely on the Holy Spirit, and as we believe God's Word, we take steps to the right towards Jesus, becoming more like Him.
Our maturity as disciples becomes evident in our engagement with three types of relationships: God (Up), those in the church (In), those outside the church (Out). Therefore, at Grace, we're intentional in providing opportunities for people to abide in Jesus (Up), grow as a family (In), and connect with their neighbors (Out).
This is who we are and what we're about.
Ways we abide in Jesus:
Sunday Worship
First Sunday Prayer
First Sunday Communion
Take the next step of Baptism
Join a Growth Group
Retreats, Camps
Sunday Worship
First Sunday Prayer
First Sunday Communion
Take the next step of Baptism
Join a Growth Group
Retreats, Camps
Ways we grow as a family:
Sunday Worship
Family Night on Wednesdays
Join a Growth Group
Take a Ministry Class
Serve through your talents and passions
Consider Celebrate Recovery
Retreats, Camps, Event Gatherings
Sunday Worship
Family Night on Wednesdays
Join a Growth Group
Take a Ministry Class
Serve through your talents and passions
Consider Celebrate Recovery
Retreats, Camps, Event Gatherings
Ways we connect with our neighbors:
Invite friends to Family Night
Invite friends to Sunday Worship
Serve through your talents and passions
Get involved with missions
Consider Celebrate Recovery
Invite friends to a Growth Group
Take a Ministry Class
Event Gatherings
Invite friends to Family Night
Invite friends to Sunday Worship
Serve through your talents and passions
Get involved with missions
Consider Celebrate Recovery
Invite friends to a Growth Group
Take a Ministry Class
Event Gatherings
What we Value
What we believe
As a church, we strive to infuse the following values into everything:
- All of Christ – Each ministry is done through His enablement. Each message points to who He is and what He has accomplished on our behalf. Each of us are to imitate His likeness in every area of our life through His own sufficiency and grace.
- God's Word – from God’s Word do we understand who God is, and in return, we understand who we are and how we’re to live as those belonging to Him.
- Prayer – to keep ourselves abiding in God and on course as a church, we must be a people who faithfully seek Him in prayer, because apart from Him we can do nothing.
- Discipleship – every ministry and mission opportunity means to encourage, equip, and empower people to take steps to the right towards Jesus and grow proportionately UP, IN, and OUT.
- Relationships – We're a family who’s committed to helping each person grow as a disciple of Jesus. Because we're messy people, the reality of the gospel needs to be extended to every relationship, remembering that we have been joined to Christ and thus to one another.
As a church, we firmly stand upon these core foundations:
- The entire Bible is God's spoken word written down for us as the unchanging and final authority for faith and living
- One God eternally existing in Three Divine Persons who are equal in power, authority, and glory: the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
- God created human beings, male and female, as co-equal bearers of His image and likeness. Gender is divinely designed; sexuality is a gift that's to be expressed in a marriage covenant between one man and one woman.
- Because our original parents, Adam and Eve, fell to temptation and disobeyed God, all of humanity are estranged from God by their sin and rebellion, and thus every person deserves God’s wrath.
- Jesus Christ is God’s only provision for our salvation. Being truly God, He took on a true human nature by being born through the power of the Holy Spirit. Because of this, Jesus perfectly lived the life humanity was created to live but could never achieve. As a result, Jesus alone is our substitute, the only acceptable sacrifice that appeases God's wrath, reconciles us to God, and enables us to stand justified before God.
- On the third day, Jesus physically rose again to life by the power of the Holy Spirit. He now sits upon the throne. By His death and resurrection, He once for all conquered the powers of sin, death, and Satan.
- One enters salvation only by grace through faith, and not the result of anything one does. When God calls a person to Himself, He awakens them by the Holy Spirit, giving them the ability to see their need for salvation and the ability to call out to Him for salvation. The entire work of salvation is of God's doing that we respond to by faith. All who put their faith in Jesus stand before God fully justified, sanctified, adopted as children, and are united to Jesus and indwelt with the Holy Spirit.
- The Church is the Body of Christ, commissioned by God to make disciples of people from every people group, as we preach the gospel and declare the truths of God's Kingdom.
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Grace Missionary Church is part of the East Central Region of the Missionary Church family.
Grace Missionary Church is part of the East Central Region of the Missionary Church family.