About

LVA Church exists...

to create opportunities for the lost to come to know Jesus Christ as their personal savior. For those who know him, to be strengthened in their walk with him. We want each person to reach their full potential in Christ through discipleship by one of our many ministries here at LVA. We want to be a place of hope for both churched and unchurched people.

LVA Church Staff

Mission & Vision

Where God Leads

Our Mission

Reaching our community and beyond with the good news that Jesus saves (Luke 15, Luke 19:10)
Teaching believers through the Bible how to love God and love their neighbors as themselves (Col. 1:28; Matt. 22:37-40)
Sending those believers back out into the world to share with others the story of how Jesus saved them (Rom. 10:13-15; Acts 1:8)

Our Core Values

Foundational

What is Most Important to Us

The Bible: authoritative, inerrant, our standard for truth and obedience
Christ-Centered Living: loving the Lord God with our whole hearts
Dependency on God for every area of our lives
Prayer: individual and corporate prayer as crucial in doing God’s work
Equipping Believers for a passion-driven, gift-based ministry
Missions: Taking Christ to the nations by giving, praying, and going

Ministry

How We Do Ministry

Loving Relationships: Acceptance, caring for others, forgiving
Contemporary Worship: vibrant, heartfelt, reflective
Strengthening Families along with strong youth, children’s, and young adult ministries
Empowering Leadership

Beliefs

Christ's Foundation

God & the Bible

that the Scriptures are Inspired by God and declare His design and plan for mankind.
that there is only One True God–revealed in three persons…Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (commonly known as the Trinity).
in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. As God’s son Jesus was both human and divine.
though originally good, man willingly fell to sin–ushering evil and death, both physical and spiritual, into the world.
that every person can have restored fellowship with God through ‘salvation’ (trusting Christ, through faith and repentance, to be our personal Savior). [1 of 4 cardinal doctrines of the AG]
and practice two ordinances—(1) water baptism by Immersion after repenting of one’s sins and receiving Christ’s gift of salvation, and (2) Holy Communion (the Lord’s Supper) as a symbolic remembrance of Christ’s suffering and death for our salvation.
that the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a Special Experience Following Salvation that empowers believers for witnessing and effective service, just as it did in New Testament times. [1 of 4 cardinal doctrines of the AG]
that the initial physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is ‘speaking in tongues,’ as experienced on the Day of Pentecost and referenced throughout Acts and the Epistles.
that sanctification initially occurs at salvation and is not only a declaration that a believer is holy, but also a progressive lifelong process of separating from evil as believers continually draw closer to God and become more Christlike.
that the church has a mission to seek and save all who are lost in sin. We believe ‘the church’ is the body of Christ and consists of the people who, throughout time, have accepted God’s offer of redemption (regardless of religious denomination) through the sacrificial death of His son Jesus Christ.
in a divinely called and scripturally ordained leadership ministry serving the church. The Bible teaches that each of us under leadership must commit ourselves to reach others for Christ, to worship Him with other believers, to build up or edify the body of believers–the Church and to meet human need with ministries of love and compassion.
that divine healing of the sick is a privilege for Christians today and is provided for in Christ’s atonement (His sacrificial death on the cross for our sins). [1 of 4 cardinal doctrines of the AG.
in the blessed hope—when Jesus raptures His church prior to His return to Earth (the second coming). At this future moment in time, all believers who have died will rise from their graves and will meet the Lord in the air, and Christians who are alive will be caught up with them, to be with the Lord forever. [1 of 4 cardinal doctrines of the AG]
in the millennial reign of Christ when Jesus returns with His saints at His second coming and begins His benevolent rule over earth for 1,000 years. This millennial reign will bring the salvation of national Israel and the establishment of universal peace.
that a final Judgment will take place for those who have rejected Christ. They will be judged for their sin and consigned to eternal punishment in a punishing lake of fire.
and look forward to the perfect new heavens and a new Earth that Christ is preparing for all people, of all time, who have accepted Him. We will live and dwell with Him there forever following His millennial reign on Earth. ‘And so shall we forever be with the Lord!’

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