Who We Are

Our Mission and Vision

The Fellowship Community (TFC) is a network of churches and leaders called together to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ by growing in Christ’s likeness, living by God’s Word, and joining in God’s mission in the world.

At the heart of The Fellowship Community, is the desire to reclaim a covenanted biblical community, where we are united by a clearly articulated theology, a shared commitment to disciple-making, and a culture of encouragement and accountability.

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Our Values

Jesus-shaped Identity

We believe Jesus Christ must be at the center of our lives, and making disciples of Jesus at the core of our ministry.
Biblical Integrity

We believe the Bible is the unique and authoritative Word of God, which teaches all that is necessary for faith and life. The prominence of God’s Word over our lives shapes our priorities, and the unrivaled authority of the Bible directs our actions to be in concert with Christ’s very best for our lives.
Thoughtful Theology

We believe in theological education, constant learning, and the life of the mind, and celebrate this as one of the treasures of our Reformed heritage.
Accountable Community

We believe guidance is a corporate spiritual experience. We want to connect leaders to one another in healthy relationships of accountability, synergy, and care.
Egalitarian Ministry

We believe in unleashing the ministry gifts of women, men, and every ethnic group.
Missional Centrality

We believe in living out the whole of the Great Commission – including evangelism, spiritual formation, compassion, and redemptive justice – in our communities and around the world.
Center-focused Spirituality

We believe in calling people to the core of what it means to be followers of Jesus – what “mere Christianity” is and does – and not fixate on the boundaries.
Leadership Velocity

We believe identifying and developing gospel-centered leaders is critical for the church, and a great leadership culture is risk-taking, innovative, and organic.
Kingdom Vitality

We believe congregations should vigorously reproduce new missional communities to expand the Kingdom of God.

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Our Essential Tenets

As members of The Fellowship Community, we affirm the foundational truths of the gospel that unite us in common mission and ministry. Our essential tenets, rooted in Scripture and the Reformed tradition, guide our commitment to glorify God and follow Jesus Christ in all aspects of life. These tenets reflect our dedication to upholding the authority of God’s Word and our theological heritage while fostering unity within the church.

As a network of Presbyterians, shaped by the Reformed tradition and formed by our evangelical heritage...
1) We proclaim the Trinity of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2) We recognize God’s authoritative Word of self-revelation in the infallible scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.
3) We proclaim God’s incarnate Word, Jesus Christ the Son, the exact imprint of God’s being, who came for us and for our salvation.
4) We marvel at the mystery of Christ, fully God and fully human, who was conceived by the Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, lived, loved, taught, healed, was crucified and bodily raised from the dead, ascending to the Father.
5) We believe that all of us, though created in the image of God, are marked by evil, sin and death, and separated from our loving God.
6) We rejoice that we can be restored to relationship with God through, and only through, the sheer grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who took on our sin on the cross, and opens the way to eternal life.
7) We are called to live lives that reflect the here-and-not-yet kingdom of God inaugurated by Christ through sharing the good news, making disciples, caring for those in need, advocating for the powerless, standing against racism and oppression and being responsible stewards of the natural world.
8) We believe life flourishes best within the covenant community of the church, where women and men serve as ordained leaders, and worship, sacraments, teaching, prayer, service and friendships of accountability form us into Christ’s likeness.
9) We seek to live in obedience to God, submitting to the Lordship of Christ in all parts of our lives. Led by the Holy Spirit, we desire to pursue truth, practice humility, confess our sins, guard our minds, care for others and live out God’s call to holiness. Our submission to Jesus includes our relationship with other people. Scripture has much to say about loving others, and the importance of friendships and family. We also believe scripture teaches faithfulness in covenanted marriage between a man and a woman, and the embrace of chastity outside of marriage.
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Our Relationships

As members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), we who are part of The Fellowship Community submit to the Constitution of the PC(USA) including the Book of Order and Book of Confessions, insofar as submission does not undermine or compromise our principal loyalty to Jesus Christ and to God’s Will for humanity as it is revealed in Scripture.

We fully understand and accept there will be times when remaining faithful to our theological and confessional heritage, and to the voice of the Church around the world, will cause us to stand in direct opposition to current policies of the PC(USA). As a covenanted order, we will stand together, and will attempt at all times to speak God’s Truth as we know it with humility and grace.

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Our History

The Fellowship Community is the next chapter in a rich history of mission and ministry among Presbyterians. In 1989, the Covenant Fellowship of Presbyterians and Presbyterians United for Biblical Concerns merged to form Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR)—a broad based advocacy and ministry organization.

In 2011, a movement began that would come to be known as the Fellowship of Presbyterians—reclaiming a covenanted biblical community within the PC(USA) where unity is derived from a clearly articulated theology, where the common mission is making disciples of Jesus Christ, and where a new generations of leaders could be nurtured to speak the gospel into a rapidly-changing world.
In 2014, these two organizations blended the best of their ministries together to form The Fellowship Community.