Prairie Hills Covenant Church is structured around four foundational statements and four ministry pillars. It is our desire to be obedient to scripture, faithful to the call of God and fully engaged in Christ’s mission to the world.
THIS IS who we are
Foundation statements
Our Vision Statement makes us think.
To immerse ourselves in the struggle to become fully alive in God
Our Identity Statement is an expansion of the identity statement of our denomination, the Evangelical Covenant Church.
United to Journey Deeper in Christ, Further in Mission
Our Mission Statement is a combination of Jesus’ Great Commandment and Great Commission. It is the mission statement for every church in every age.
Love God, Love Others, Make Disciples
Our Goal Statement is very simple. Our goal, our finish line, our prize is Jesus himself.
Pursue Jesus
This is what we do
The Four Ministry Pillars
1. Worship (Sacred Gatherings)
2. Discipleship (Spiritual Vitality)
3. Mission (Missions and Outreach)
4. Stewardship (Giving and Serving)
OUR FAITH
As a Covenant church we sum up our faith in six Affirmations ...
We affirm the centrality of the Word of God.
We affirm the necessity of the new birth.
We affirm a commitment to the whole mission of the church.
We affirm the Church as a fellowship of believers.
We affirm a conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit.
We affirm the reality of freedom in Christ.
OUR ROOTS
The Covenant church has its roots in historical Christianity as it emerged in the Protestant Reformation, in the biblical instruction of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, and in the great spiritual awakenings of the nineteenth-century.
We are the apostolic church. We confess Jesus Christ and the faith of the apostles as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. We believe the authority of the Bible is supreme in all matters of faith, doctrine, and conduct, and it is to be trusted. "Where is it written?" was and is the Covenant's touchstone of discussion with regard to faith and practice.
We are a catholic church. The word catholic literally means universal. This means we understand ourselves to be part of the community of believers that began with Jesus' first followers, is alive today, and will continue until Christ comes again.
We are a Reformation church. We stand in the mainstream of a church renewal movement of the sixteenth-century called the Protestant Reformation. Especially important is the belief that we are saved by God's grace alone, through faith alone, not by anything that we can do. The Covenant Church is also shaped by Pietism, a renewal movement that originated in the seventeenth-century Europe and emphasized the need for a life that is personally connected to Jesus Christ, a reliance on the Holy Spirit, and a call to service in the world.
We are an evangelical church. A series of religious awakenings flowered in Europe and America during the nineteenth-century and provided rich soil for the early growth of the Covenant Church with our passion for mission. Evangelicals historically have been characterized by a strong insistence on biblical authority, the absolute necessity of a new birth. Christ's mandate to evangelize the world, the continuing need for education and formation in a Christian context, and a responsibility for benevolence and the advancement of social justice.
