About Our Church and Mission

 

    Union Cross Friends Meeting is a church that strives to experience the fullness of the power of God.  We desire to see people claim freedom and victory in the name of Jesus Christ! Union Cross is a church with a vision; a body of believers with an objective to win souls,  unify people,  and glorify God.  We are a church that believes the Word of God (Bible) to be absolute truth, authoritative, and inspired by the Holy Spirit.  We believe that we can obtain power for living purposeful lives by submitting ourselves to the anointing of God and acquiring the mind of Christ: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5).

 

    Our mission is "Gospel-focused."  We want to evangelize our community by equipping believers and developing a spiritual depth and awareness in all we hear.  Our theme, "Experience God Every Day in Every Way," is to encourage people to know that God is with them always, not only on the church grounds.  How? Because the Bible teaches that the people make up the church,  not the property.  Our prayer is that God create in us a clean heart and that He transform us into a people who are pleasing to Him.  God is good all the time, and all the time God is good!  Praise the Lord!

 

    Union Cross is a church with outreach at the center.  We have a vision for seeing people come to know Jesus as their Savior.  He is still on the throne and wants us to discover the power for living through Him.  We also want to see believers grow in grace and be set apart by the sanctifying power of God.  The Church is part of the Friends United denomination and has been established in the community for over 120 years.  We feel that we are called to service and desire to fulfill that calling under any circumstance.  Let us put on the full armor of God and take up our cross daily and follow HIm; no weapon formed against us shall prosper and we believe in being warriors of Christ!

 

 

What we Believe

 

• We believe in one eternally existent, infinite God, Sovereign of the universe; and that He, as God, is Triune in essential being, revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity; that He is eternally one with the Father; that He became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary, thus uniting God and man, being one Person fully God and fully man, the God-man.

• We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, that He is ever present and active in and with the Church of Christ.

• We believe that sin came into the world through disobedience and rebellion towards God, and that the wages of sin is death; we believe that Christ, by His sufferings, by the shedding of His own blood, and by His death and resurrection, made a full atonement for all human sin, and that this atonement is the only grounds for salvation, sufficient for everyone who will receive.

• We believe that human beings are created as free moral agents, with the ability to choose between right and wrong; we believe that repentance which is sincere is how we respond in faith to the saving grace of God, thus being justified, regenerated, and adopted in Christ Jesus.

• We believe in the Church, the community that confesses Jesus Christ as Lord, the covenant people of God made new in Christ, the body of Christ called together by the Holy Spirit through the Word.

• We believe in the Second Coming of Jesus; we believe in the resurrection and the judgment of the living and the dead, and that every person will appear before God and be judged accordingly.

• We believe in eternity and that glorious and everlasting life is assured to all who will savingly believe in, and obediently follow, Jesus Christ; and that the final destination for sinners is an eternity separated from God in Hell.