Serving: San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Los Altos, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Campbell
About Us
Our Mission
To help people Meet, Know, Follow, and Love Jesus
Our Vision
We envision a church where everyone places God above our cultures, life stages, languages, preferences, and backgrounds to help people to connect with God and each other.
Our Core Values
- The Great Commission: Make Disciples of all nations
- The Great Commandments: Love God and Love People with all we have
- The New Commandment: Love God and Love People Sacrificially
Our Worship
We are an intergenerational multicultural bilingual church. We believe that families worshiping together will bring greater blessings to all who are involved. So you will see middle schoolers to seniors come together to worship our amazing God. Our primary language is English but our sermons are translated into Mandarin. We also incorporate small group discussions as a part of our worship so we can apply what we hear right away.
Our Statement of Faith
- Triune God: There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- God the Father: There is only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. To Him, we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence or being.
- God the Son: Jesus is the Son of God and by Him all things were created. Fully human and fully divine, Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary. While on Earth, Christ lived a sinless life, was full of grace and truth, performed good deeds and miracles, and taught the words of life. He was crucified, died, and rose again. Christ ascended into heaven, now intercedes for us, and will return to judge the living and the dead.
- God the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, draws people to Christ, indwells believers, and serves as a deposit of God. He transforms Christians to live a holy life, reveals the Word of God, and empowers believers through various gifts for the work of the church.
- Salvation: Those who confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe with their heart that God raised him from the dead, shall be saved. Those who do so are born again, having been regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
- Resurrection: Both the saved and the lost shall be resurrected; the saved will be resurrected to life and the lost resurrected to damnation.
- Spiritual Unity of Believers: The spiritual unity of believers is in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is a gift by God and maintained by the believers through a desire to be completely humble and gentle, patient, bearing with one another in love, and through the bond of peace (Shalom).
- Scripture: God who by his Spirit has graciously disclosed himself in human words: we believe that God has inspired the words preserved in the Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, which are both record and means of his saving work in the world. These writings alone constitute the verbally inspired Word of God, which is utterly authoritative and without error in the original writings, complete in its revelation of his will for salvation, sufficient for all that God requires us to believe and do, and final in its authority over every domain of knowledge to which it speaks.
- Church: There is a universal Church of Jesus Christ. All believers are part of that Church. Christians are called to regularly assemble together in local expressions of that universal Church for worship, fellowship, administering the sacraments, instruction, and engaging in good works.
- Love: The greatest commandment is to love God with all one’s heart, soul, mind, and strength. The second greatest commandment is to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. We are to imitate Christ’s selfless sacrificial love towards God and each other.
- Good Works: Christians are created, commanded, equipped, and predestined to perform good works which glorify the Father.
- Holiness: Christians are to live lives that are holy, being set apart from this “world”, because God is holy and His children are to be holy. Therefore, believers are to repent from their sin, resist temptation, and conduct themselves in a manner that is consistent with a Christian lifestyle and character.
- Marriage: Marriage has been ordained by God and is the exclusive covenantal union between a man and a woman in which such union is a lifetime commitment. A civil government’s sanction of a union will be recognized as a legitimate marriage by the Church only to the extent that it is consistent with the definition of “marriage” found in these Articles.
- Human Sexuality: Legitimate sexual relations are exercised solely within marriage. Hence, sexual relations outside of marriage (referred to in the New Testament as “porneia”-- πορνεια) including but not limited to, adultery, premarital sex, homosexuality, and pedophilia are inconsistent with the teachings of the Bible and the Church. Further, lasciviousness, transgender behavior, and the creation or distribution or viewing of sexually immoral materials, are incompatible with the biblical witness.
Our Principles
- Functional Forms: We believe Functions never change but the forms must change as people change.
- Practical Theology: We believe in teaching the Word in a relevant and practical way that helps people to encounter God every time we teach.
- Impactful Family: We believe that families who worship and serve together will grow together. But this family is beyond our physical family but also our Spiritual family. Every member of our church matters to everyone else's Spiritual journey.
- Simple Excellence: We believe less is more when less is excellent. We keep ministry simple but we minister well.
- Innovative Failures: We believe true failure is when we fail to innovate or when we fail to learn from our failures.
- Diverse Unity: We celebrate differences in our united pursuit of loving God and loving people.
- Loving Honesty: We are transparent with who we are and speak truth with love and grace. We strive to build up and not tear down with our authentic pursuit of God.
- Sober Accountability: We believe in sobering and constant examination of our hearts through the convictions of the Holy Spirit as well as constructive insights from others. We depend on the Holy Spirit to bring true repentance and transformation.
- Godly Acceptance: We love and welcome all sinners who desire not to live in sin but in Light because we are sinners indebted to Christ ourselves
- Active Communication: We want to hear you and want you to hear us so we can come together for the good of His people.
- Costly Joyful Discipleship: We believe following Christ comes at a great cost but the transformation of lives through discipleship are overwhelmingly joyful as well.
- Missional Community: We believe God calls us to be a community to journey together and lead our communities to God as missionaries.
- Essential Ministers: We believe, by the love of God, He called everyone to be ministers of His Gospel and everyone’s gift is needed to build up His church.
- Prayerful Humility: We believe that we must seek God first not because we are incapable but because God desires us to humbly seek Him. Therefore, we strive to slow down, pray, discern, and commit all to follow the steps of the Holy Spirit.