With the help of God and utilization of the many resources within our community, we have been able to accomplish great things. The fifteen active ministries and the non-profit Southeast Community Development Corporation are testament to the ‘faith at work’ inspired by the teachings of Pastor Payton. We are at one stop in our journey toward the realization of the life that God desires for all of His children.

Our Mission Statement
“Teaching saved souls to reach lost souls, by becoming fully devoted followers of Christ.”

Our Core Values
1. A commitment to influencing community values.
2. A commitment to reaching the lost.
3. A commitment to living by the authority of the Bible.
4. A commitment to ministry involvement.
5. A commitment to loving and encouraging people.
6. A commitment to personal and corporate prayer and worship.
7. A commitment to Spiritual reproduction.

Our Vision Statement (back to top)
“Teaching people to live in the fullness of Christ and to live fully for Christ.

Our Strategy (back to top)
Vision Casting: A Five Year Plan
There is not a doubt in my mind God is calling us to be world changers! We cannot become or be what God wants us to become or be without first becoming fully devoted followers of Christ in our personal and corporate life.

We are a church! We are not a social club, lodge, bowling league or business, but rather the Church of The Lord Jesus Christ!

That which is at stake for us are the souls of people of all racial, cultural and economic background. We are here to make it difficult for anyone in this community, country and world to enter a dark and painful Christless eternity.

This cannot be done on a whim. We must strategically plan, structure and commit our selves for the harvest—remembering that the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. The only other alternative is to stand before God with empty hands and barren hearts. None of us should desire that, but rather desire to hear Him say, “well done thy good and faithful servant.

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.” John F. Kennedy

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man, who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble." Emerson (1803-1882)

Focus Areas For The Next Five Years (back to top)
1. Intensive and Intentional Evangelism Efforts
Romans 1:16
“For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—Jews first and also Gentiles.

2. Integration of Entire Membership into Spiritual Maturity, Community and in Full Participation in the Life of the Church
Hebrews 5:13-14
13 And a person who is living on milk isn’t very far along in the Christian life and doesn’t know much about doing what is right. 14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.

John 13:34-35
34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

Ephesians 4:11-13
11 He is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ, 13 until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ.

3. Intentionally Develop Core and Lay Leadership Base
2 Timothy 2:1-2
1 You then, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus;2 and what you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

Action Plan (back to top)
Intensive and Intentional Evangelism Efforts
Acts 1:88 But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power and will tell people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Goals
1. To share the Gospel with 5000 lost people.
2. Develop a mind, heart and life-style that prioritize the need to reach lost people.
3. Challenge ourselves to be engaged in relational based evangelism.
4. Emphasize evangelism in every ministry of this church.

Some Key Action Steps
We will achieve our objectives by passionately pursuing the following activities:
1. Provide systematic evangelism training.
2. Provide hands on application of evangelism training.
3. Offer seeker events regularly.
4. Present several seeker sermon series.
5. Establish seeker small groups throughout city.

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