About Us
About Us
Together we are a community of believers. What does that mean, the word community? We believe that together in fellowship we grow closer to God and one another. The Bible speaks about iron sharpening iron. We believe that together we grow stronger. We are a community of believers.
We strive to be a church without walls. Jesus calls for us to go outside the walls to reach the lost and the broken. It is there that the lost will be found.
We look to grow through fellowship, and ultimately growing closer to God. We value the Word of God, and the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We look to extend grace to all of the lost and broken, and lead those with no hope to the hope of Jesus Christ.
WHO WE ARE
MISSION
Connecting People To God’s Story
VISION
Mount Zion seeks to connect people to God’s story by investing in and reaching the Next Generation. We work diligently to engage with our campus ministries which include the Weekday Preschool & Kindergarten and Spirit sports leagues.
As a body of believers where a deeper walk with God is pursued, we look forward to seeing more individuals answer the call to missions and impact the world for Christ.
We seek to create an environment where each person is committed to service and growing in community with others.
STRATEGY
Experience | Engage | Expand
Experience an environment where people feel they belong.
Engage in worship, participate in a group, and serve in a ministry.
Expand in knowledge of the Word of God and compassion for others.
VALUES
Why Do We Do What We Do
OUR STAFF
Jody Shelton
Lead Pastor
Scott Crow
Executive Pastor
Katie Wetherington
Guest Services
Jennifer Phillips
Children's Director
Lee & Mandy Edwards
Worship Arts
Bobby Ikebudu
Creative Director
Jill Story
Facilities Director
Jackye Gann
Ministry Assistant
Judy Jarrell
Ministry Assistant
OUR STORY
The Early Years
To Present Day
1948: First Vacation Bible School
1972: Church voted to construct a 600 seat sanctuary which currently serves as the Student Center and Weekday Preschool.
1975: Mount Zion Weekday Preschool and Kindergarten opens
1976: Church bought five additional acres
1977: Church builds Christian Life Center and education building
2000: Present sanctuary and renovations were completed
Statement of Faith
Mount Zion desires to connect you to God's Story by helping you KNOW Him as Savior, LIVE as His disciple and SHARE Him with others.
God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God.
The Bible is the inspired Word of God—authoritative, infallible, and inerrant (without mixture of error). It is the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice.
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, fully God and fully man. Jesus lived a sinless life, died on the cross for sin, was resurrected from the dead, and has ascended to heaven.
God immutably creates each person either male or female from birth. These two distinct, complementary sexes, together, reflect His image. All of us are marred by an attitude of disobedience toward God called sin, which separates us from God.
Salvation is God’s free gift to us, but we must accept it. We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting Jesus Christ as God’s offer of forgiveness can anyone be saved from sin’s penalty. When we turn from our sin and to Jesus in faith we are saved. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ by faith.
Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. If you have been genuinely saved, you cannot “lose” your salvation. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives us this security.
A local body of baptized believers who are associated by their common faith and fellowship with Jesus. A local church should observe the ordinances (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) and should exercise their God-given gifts to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The church is an autonomous body serving under the Lordship of Christ. All members are equally responsible as they serve with the officers of the church.
People will exist forever either separated from God by sin or with God through salvation. To be eternally separate from God is Hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life. Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal
God made man and woman and created the first family. We believe that one man should be married to one woman.
To live in harmony with other believers is the teaching of the
New Testament. Every believer should endeavor to live in fellowship with one another. It is further the responsibility of each member to bring all gossiping to an end.
Jesus Christ will return to earth to reign as King and Lord. Everyone will be resurrected—the saved to everlasting life and the unsaved to everlasting torment.
Giving a tithe, 10% of our income, is the biblical standard. The tithe is to be given as an undesignated offering to the ministry of a local church. We are encouraged to give cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of God’s mission on earth.
The Lord’s Supper or Communion is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the body of Christ, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, remember the death of Jesus and anticipate His return.
Christian baptism is the post-conversion immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, symbolizing the believer’s faith in Jesus Christ. Baptism also symbolizes our crucified, buried, and risen Savior and the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.
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