Image to the Right: Feeding of the 5,000 (see the Gospel of St Matthew 14:15-21; St Mark 6:35-44; St Luke 9:10-17; and St John 6:1-14).

As Presbyterian Christians, we profess in words and in deeds the mission of the Church as Christ Jesus instituted.

We beleive the Church, universal and each congregation, is called to present the claims of Jesus Christ, leading persons to repentance, acceptance of him as Savior and Lord, and new life as his disciples. 

The Church is called to be Christ’s faithful evangelist:

• going into the world, making disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all he has commanded;
  
• demonstrating by the love of its members for one another and by the quality of its common life the new reality in Christ;
• sharing in worship, fellowship, and nurture, practicing a deepened life of prayer and service under the guidance of the Holy Spirit;
  
• and participating in God’s activity in the world through its life for others by 

• healing and reconciling and binding up wounds; 
• ministering to the needs of the poor, the sick, the lonely, and the powerless; 
• engaging in the struggle to free people from sin, fear, oppression, hunger, and injustice; 
• giving itself and its substance to the service of those who suffer; 
• sharing with Christ in the establishing of his just, peaceable, and loving rule in the world.