HOW DO I JOIN THIS CHURCH?

Joining the church is not a complicated thing.  It simply means that you wish to be allied in an active manner with a Christ Professing Fellowship of Believers. At the conclusion of the sermon "the spoken word" in each service an extension of invitation is offered to anyone who would desire membership. At that time the person seeking membership simply walks to the front of the church and share with the Pastor that you wish to join this church.  If a person desires to join at time other than a regular worship service, this may be accomplished through making known the wish to any member of the ministry team.  The Ritual of our church sets forth three ways by which a person can join our church.  Those three ways are highlighted below. Every new member must also submit to a six week new Member Orientation and Training Class scheduled at different times throughout the year.

You may first join the church as a candidate for Baptism.  This means that you wish to be administered the right of Baptism as expressed in Biblical tradition. You may be baptized either through immersion, sprinkling or pouring on of water.

Secondly, you may join the church through Christian Experience.  This means
that in your walk of discipleship as an already baptized believer your encounter with Christ in the experiences of your life has given you adequate knowledge of what it means to hope in, depend upon and live for Jesus Christ.  Thus through these experiences you have become seasoned enough in your walk that you are able to pick up your continued walk under a "new housing" or place of membership. This assumes also that you come to the church with membership in tact from another church.

Finally, you may join the church through Letter of Transfer.  This letter of transfer is secured from your former church indicating that you are a member in good standing in another Christ Professing fellowship already having been baptized into the body of Christ.  It does not require a second baptism.