Saved to Serve Nations Development

OUR BELIEFS
This is just an overview of our beliefs and is not meant to be an exhaustive study of everything we believe but primarily our cornerstone beliefs.

Upon request we can provide a more detailed list of our Christian beliefs containing even more Biblical references.



Activities
Teen’s Ultimate Dance

Teen’s Ultimate Dance Programme is a dance programme that helps young people to become valued professional performers and happy, balanced human beings.
Why the programme is used
The programme is aimed at helping young people to become motivated, self-confident, disciplined and fit/healthy. It is also for young people to experience joy, healing, creativity and expressiveness.
Where the programme is used
Teens Ultimate Dance is implemented in schools (special, private and public) by trained Teens Ultimate Dancers.
For youth to participate in this programme, young people need to be:
• Between the ages of 12 and 19 years old
• Able to commit to the programme
What the programme elements are
The Teen’s Ultimate Dance Programme is in four modules and provides dance styles for:
• Salsa
• Kwaito
• Classical
• Rock ‘n Roll
• Hip Hop
• Funk
Care4Teens sexuality programme
Introduction and Overview
Care4teens, care for teens healthy sexuality programme, provides young people with relevant and accurate information about their sexual and reproductive health. The onset of early sexual activity and vulnerability of young people to unsafe sex are largely determined by the following:
• Sexual coercion (forced sex)
• Transactional sex (sex in exchange for money, payment of school fees,
• sweets, toiletries, airtime, clothes and other goods)
• Low self-esteem
• Pessimism
• Peer pressure
Why the programme is used
For youth to participate in this programme, the following should be in place:
They should be between the ages of 12 and 19 years old and have a keen interest in wanting to participate in care4teens They should be able to commit to the programme for at least nine weeks care4teens is implemented at schools and care4teens community hubs (Saved to Serve Nations development -Centre, community-based organisations and youth friendly clinics) throughout South Africa by Teens ultimate dancers and their team of ground-shakers.
Where the programme is used
Care4teen’s is a 15 week modular-based curriculum covering three broad themes:
• Sexual and reproductive health education
• HIV⁄Aids and STI related education
• Lifeskills to deal with life transitions
The programme consists of a facilitator's guide that is used by all implementers to run sessions in schools and at the community hubs.
Cyber Ys
Introduction and Overview
Cyber Ys is saved to serve nations development youth-centre based computer literacy programme and Homework’s . The Cyber Ys programme aims to equip young people with basic Information Technology (IT) skills that they can use to pursue a career or employment in the field of information technology.
The programme also provides healthy sexuality and positive lifestyle information. Delivered through saved to serve nations development (youth offices), the programme equips young people with the skills to use: Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet and e-mail. Upon completion of the programme, young people receive a certificate acknowledging that they have successfully completed the training course.
Why the proramme is used
The programme can be used to further a young person's career in computers equip youth with innovative skills in terms of Information and Communication Technology • teach essential life skills
Where the programme is used
• The programme targets young people between the ages of 12 - 24 who are both in and out of school
• The programme is implemented at saved to serve nations development Centre and at schools where computers are available
• The programme is implemented by groups of saved to serve nations development ground-shakers led by a Teen’s ultimate dancers
What the programme elements are
A Cyber Ys programme manual with 26 modules divided into three parts:
• Introduction to the PC (5 Modules)
• Moving on with Computers (7 Modules)
• Internet (4 Modules)
Debating, poems,dramas,story telling.
Introduction and Overview
Debating teaches young people to be confident in their beliefs, thus making it easier for them to stand up against peer pressure and transactional sex amongst other key root causes of high-risk behaviour. It also encourages young people to engage with ideas and reach their own conclusions, thus counteracting coercion.
Debating builds the self-worth of a young person. The programme is targeted at promoting a culture of openness and discussion in communities where saved to serve nations development programmes are offered. The debating programme aims to ultimately build young people’s assertiveness and communication skills and focus on key topics related to HIV , ABUSE, e.t.c and its underlying root causes.
Why the programme is used
Saved to serve nations development seeks to encourage critical thinking, promote an optimistic, solution-orientated vision of the future, boost young people's self-esteem and encourage open, fact-based discussions of issues that affect young people’s lives.
Where the programme is used
The debating, poem, drama, story telling programme is designed as a learning initiative for young people to understand and apply the rules, structures, processes and adjudication of leagues.
Young people that participate in the debating, poem, drama, story telling programme will ultimately debate, poem, drama, story telling at a league level that runs for a period of time.
What the programme elements are
Debating is an activity-based programme that focusses on the following topics:
• How to debate
• Familiarising young people with key issues and arguments that they will encounter in the course of their debating careers and lives. The programme consists of a facilitator’s manual which the ground –shakers is trained on, so they know how to organise and run debates.
Environment Ys
Introduction and Overview
The saved to serve nations development approach to youth leadership involves a personal development process for implementers. The Environment Ys Programme speaks to "loving myself and my space” and aims to give young people a renewed understanding of relating to their environment.
HIV prevention and environmental health converge in a single imperative – to help young people take back their future through appreciating their lives and respecting their environment.
Why the programme is used
The programme promotes environmental health by building youth participation and leadership in the Environment Ys Programme. It aims to achieve the following outcomes:
• Mobilise youth to actively participate in environmental programmes that enhance their surroundings and create awareness about the role that their natural environment plays in their well-being
• Promote and provide opportunities for young people and communities to enter formal employment and entrepreneurial opportunities in environmental health, management and conservation
• Develop youth leadership by facilitating young people's active participation in climate change and other programmes relating to environmental issues
Where the programme is used
Youth participate by means of different platforms facilitated by a ground-shakers to create continuous awareness and educate communities about environmental issues as follows:
• Environment Ys Clubs operating at saved to serve nations development Centre
What the programme elements are
Environment Ys activities include:
• Food gardens
• Recycling (paper and glass)
• Tree-planting Programme
• Energy-saving Programme (The Wonder Bag)
• Worm factories (Vermi compost and vermi liquid)
• Enviro Ys Core 2 Training
• Enviro Ys Campaigns – for example, litter programme, debates, competitions in celebration of national and global environmental calender days e.g. National Water Week, World En
Go-serve
Introduction and Overview
The Go-serve Programme has been designed to help saved to serve nations development address issues that affect children and vulnerable youth as individuals, and those that affect them in society. The programme attempts to assist by ensuring that these children and youth; (1) have a sense of purpose and belonging, (2) access food, (3) have welfare grants, (4) stay in school, (5) are safe from abuse. The Go-serve identify the children, assess them, register them, conduct support visits and link the children with assistance from different organisations.
Go-serve do all this with the assistance of ground shakers at community level.
Why the programme is used
Through +/- 500 Go-serve, who support 10 to 20 children each, the programme aims to ensure that Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) have:
• A sense of purpose and belonging
• Access food
• Access grants
• Stay in school
• Protection from all forms of abuse
Where the programme is used
Children's homes, schools, local networks of support, saved to serve nations development Youth-Centre office
What the programme elements are
Emotional support, step by step guidance and problem solving, implementation support by ground-shakers, identifying and assessing OVCs, registering OVCs, conducting home visits, bringing OVCs into youth programmes, organising dialogues and mobilising local networks.
• environment Day, Global Hand-washing, World Toilet Day and Arbour Week, World Aids Day
Ground-shaker’s and teen’s ultimate dance
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
The ground-shakers programme was established in 2013 as a community service programme targeting 12-to 30-year-olds who showed commitment to volunteering in their communities. The aim of the programme is to assist young people who display commitment, leadership qualities and a willingness to be involved in their communities by developing their skills, networking opportunities and leadership potential through community-based voluntary service.
WHY THE PROGRAMME IS USED
Ground-shakers use their training to implement saved to serve nations development programmes in schools, community-based organisations (franchises), youth friendly clinics (Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services), Youth-Centre and other community hubs.
WHERE THE PROGRAMME IS USED
Together, the ground-shakers and teen’s care4teen’s play an important leadership role in their communities which goes well beyond HIV prevention. Essentially, the ground-shakers Programme is a youth development initiative that equips young people, through voluntary service, with the skills and motivation they need to continually give back to their communities, better themselves and those around them.
WHAT THE PROGRAMME ELEMENTS ARE
• Recruitment: ground-shakers are recruited primarily from the pool of teen’s ultimate dancers − volunteers who have been actively engaged in saved to serve nations development programmes
• Skills development: Through training, ground-shakers are equipped with generic programme skills that focus on healthy lifestyle living and HIV prevention. The training programmes also focus on mentoring and leadership skills as well as CV writing and job search skills
• Implementation: ground-shakers then implement saved to serve nations development programmes in schools, franchises, youth friendly clinics, the Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services Programme, Youth-Centre and other community hubs
• Monitoring: Programme implementation is monitored by Regional Programme Leaders who feedback to Research, Monitoring and Evaluation once the data has been authenticated
• Exit Programme: The exit programme is driven by the Youth Leadership Development unit. The programme is designed to encourage young people to take charge of their futures. The ground-shakers are helped to develop personal goals and career plans. They are assisted to develop their CVs and are encouraged to look for jobs or other exit opportunities, such as bursaries and scholarships before they complete the programme. The ground-shakers graduates are encouraged to register their profiles on the Alumni database and to keep in contact with regard to what they are doing
Saved to serve nations development Games
Introdution and Overview
Saved to serve nations development Games is structured to focus on youth leadership development, life-skills, sexual health and other HIV prevention programmes at sports, recreational as well as arts and culture events. Targeted at youth between 12 and 19 years old, saved to serve nations development Games gives young people the opportunity to benefit from saved to serve nations development programmes and find out about the range of saved to serve nations development services available to them.
The saved to serve nations development Games Programme inspires positive behaviour change among young people.
Through saved to serve nations development Games, saved to serve peer motivators and community mobilisers, known as ground-shakers and care4teen’s, deliver the following programmes at events organised by sports councils and federations as well as arts and culture bodies:
HIV prevention programmes that ignite behaviour change and contribute to the process of building complete young leaders for an HIV free future Creating awareness of the multitude of saved to serve HIV prevention support services available to young people
Why the programme is used
Saved to serve Games provides young people with an interactive platform to participate in HIV prevention programmes that attack the behavioural, social and structural determinants of HIV. Participants and spectators at sports and arts and culture events are also exposed to an in-depth awareness of the multitude of saved to serve HIV prevention support services. Research findings state that:
• Young people aged between 12 and 19 who stay in school or move onto further studies after school tend to exhibit less risky sexual behaviour than youth who drop out of school
• Young people aged between 12 and 19 only change their behaviour as a result of continuous and layered engagement and interaction with media and social programmes
• The largest proportion of time that young people aged between 12 and 19 spend engaging with adults is in classrooms and extra-mural settings at school
Where the programme is used
Throughout South Africa, in both urban and rural areas and during events at all levels, which are organised by School Sport, sport federations, community sport councils and Government departments. These events include:
• Community organised events
• Cluster events
• District events
• Regional events
• Provincial events
• National events
• International events
What the programme elements are
Saved to serve nations development Games is a partnership model, working with the custodians of South African sport and arts and culture bodies in the form of Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA), the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC), national federations and School Sport.
The saved to serve Games strategy aims to increase face-to-face interaction with both participants and spectators in the drive to seamlessly integrate saved to serve programmes and services in the delivery of high quality, well organised and professionally managed sport, arts and culture as well as recreational games and activities. In this way,saved to serve is able to ensure maximum impact is achieved.
Caring4 your-life
Introduction and Overview
Caring4 your-life is saved to serve personal discovery programme for youth. The programme is the revised version of saved to serve popular motivation programme and consists of activities that enable youth to understand who they are and live the life they desire to lead in future. The programme also provides youth with the life-skills to deal with life’s challenges and pressures, and adequately plan for the future.
Why the programme is used
The programme aims to provide young people with a variety of lifeskills to navigate personal, social and structural challenges and obstacles and inspire them to look beyond their current circumstances.
Where the programme is used
For youth to participate in this programme, the following should be in place. The participant:
• Has a key interest in wanting to participate in caring4 your-life
• Is between 12 and 22 years old
• Is able to commit to the programme for at least nine weeks. The programme is run at all community hubs and schools where saved to serve implements its programmes
What the programme elements are
The caring4 your-life programme is a twelve week modular-based curriculum covering two broad themes:
My response to personal circumstances (having a vision, goal setting) My response to society (family relationships, community relationships, entrepreneurship, mentors)
Caring4 your-life consists of 24 sessions that are implemented for 30-45 minutes per session. The programme consists of both a facilitator’s guide and a participant's manual.
Discipleship Training School
Vision, mission, purpose & beliefs
Vision
To see every Christ-follower formed, conformed and transformed in the image of Jesus.
Our training programs aim to equip Christians to serve others in everything from agriculture to linguistics, from drug rehabilitation to cross-cultural ministry. SSDT foundational course, which serves as the prerequisite for all other training programs, is called the Discipleship Training School (DTS)
Mission
Make disciples.
Core Beliefs
•The Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God.
•We acknowledge the Creator - God as our heavenly Father, infinitely perfect, and intimately acquainted with all our ways.
•We claim Jesus Christ as Lord - the very God who came in human flesh - the object of our worship and the subject of our praise.
•We recognize the Holy Spirit as the third member of the Godhead, unceasingly at work convicting, convincing, and comforting.
•That Adam's fall into sin left humanity without the hope of heaven apart from a new birth, made possible by the Saviour’s death and bodily resurrection.
•The offer of salvation is God's love-gift to all. Those who accept it by faith, apart from works, become new creatures in Christ.
•That anyone who trusts in Christ by faith is a new creation in Him - clothed in His righteousness and fully loved and accepted by God.
•That God expects our lives to reflect that we belong to Him and that we are pursuing a holy life.
•That Satan, under the sovereign permission of God, tries to destroy the faith of believers and that drawing near to God is the only way to resist him.
•That as new creations in Christ we will continue to wrestle with our sin nature. We will, however, continue to grow in grace and become more like Jesus. Ultimate perfection and freedom from sin, however, will only come when we finally stand in the presence of the Lord.
•That, as believers in Jesus Christ, we are members of His universal church and that the local church is the place God has designed for His people to worship Him, observe the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Table, and love other Christians.
•That, having embraced Jesus Christ by faith, we are to make Him known to non-Christians in our sphere of influence.
•We anticipate our Lord's promised return in power and glory.
•That all who have died will be brought back from beyond - believers to everlasting communion with God and unbelievers to everlasting separation from God.
What We Do
We serve the Body of Christ by providing a Biblical discipleship process and free discipleship resources , We do so based on what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9:18-19: "What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge … that I might win more of them."
Who We Are
I have had the great opportunity to visit with other pastors around the regarding discipleship. I share your passion in seeing people become fully equipped, spiritually mature saints – believers who know Jesus and make Him known. I also know what it feels like to look out over the congregation and see that many are not growing up in the basics of our faith.
The saved to serve discipleship training (SSDT) seeks to bring you into a more intimate relationship with God. It also gives you an opportunity to discover your passions and your part in God’s purposes for the world. It is for those who long to follow Jesus in new ways with a different perspective.
The course is a full-time program and lasts five or six months. It consists of two parts: lecture phase and outreach phase. In the lecture phase, you will learn more about God and His world. You’ll learn not only from lectures but also from community living and practical training. The outreach phase called (saved to serve outreach ministries) focuses on applying what you learned in the classroom through an intense, cross-cultural experience.
Saved to serve discipleship training is a global movement of Christians from many cultures, age groups, and Christian traditions, dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as SSDT (Saved to serve outreach ministries), we unite in a common purpose to know God, His Son JESUS and to make Him known.
Back when we began in 2009 our main focus was to get youth involved in missions. Today, we still focus on youth, and we also involve people aged 8 to 80.
One of the joys of participating in Saved to serve outreach ministries is to work with people from many nations. training programs aim to equip Christians to serve others in everything from agriculture to linguistics, from drug rehabilitation to cross-cultural ministry. SSDT foundational course, which serves as the prerequisite for all other training programs, is called the Discipleship Training School (DTS).
SSDT courses, often called “schools,” combine theory with practical application

SAVED TO SERVE HOME BASED CARE


Our Home Based Care (HBC) program has been started in 2013 . It was the first program undertaken by saved to serve nations development and has ever since directly and indirectly helped many of community members.
The program provides a holistic home care support and care program to patients throughout Mutale District who suffer from a life threatening or terminal illness. Care is given in the home of the ill persons by a caregiver (neighbour, friend or family member) supported by a trained community caregiver supervisor, who monitors care provision. In addition, family and caregivers are supported by a multi-disciplinary team that can meet the specific needs of the individual and family. The team consists of all the people involved in the patient’s care and support plus a professional nurse, enrolled nurse and social worker.
One of Africa Foundation’s long-term goals is to continue empowering rural communities by responding to grass-roots community needs. In the Mutale community, a group of 15 women volunteers who care for orphaned and vulnerable children, as well as the elderly, has approached Africa Foundation for support. These volunteers conduct home visits and provide meals, support and counselling to over 100 children, as well as a number of adults. These home based care givers conduct support groups and give health talks with the community, as well as identifying children in need of support and putting them in touch with social workers. They assist community members with applications for birth certificates, identity documents and social grants. The women also conduct home visits to care for chronically ill patients and distributed food supplements.
Working from a dilapidated single-room structure that is in dire need of refurbishment, the volunteers lack suitable facilities to aid them in providing these services. Africa Foundations is currently facilitating the refurbishment of this structure, adding on more office space, a consultation room and a kitchen.

The Home Based Care program uses a currently total of three many trained community volunteers who care for over nine hundred infected HIV/AIDS and TB patients in the community and nearby settlements (radius of ~90 km). Often, patients live quite far from the hospital and regional clinics and would have difficulty travelling to them on their own from home. As a result, the volunteers become crucial to ensuring compliance with ARV treatment and to monitoring the progress of these patients. If a patient worsens, the volunteers bring them to a hospital or clinic. This program is supervised by a team of four full-time saved to serve nations development workers and one local Department of Health (DOH) Seletani Shandukani who is a nurse by profession .
The home based care program empowers the community and families to cope effectively with the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of those living with life threatening illnesses. It provides education on prevention and treatment of these illnesses and provides much needed support to family members in their care giving roles.
Our Home Based Care (HBC) program has the unique ability to follow patients that have been cared for in the In Patient Unit (IPU) when they return to their homes. This relationship allows for the smooth transition from care center to home and allows for staff communication regarding individual patient needs. These services provided include;
Bathing
Meal Preparation
Household Chore Help
Health Education
Medication Intake Monitoring (TB and ARV)
Pain & Other Symptom Control
Bereavement Counselling & Referral Services

The help extends to the provision of school uniforms, basic clothing, school uniform and Christmas gifts to those less fortunate and not affording. The provision of the care and support has to withstand many complications and sets back though, among the list, poor cellphone reception, poor transportation system, a lack of financial stability, bad road conditions and more. Our team of Home Based Care (HBC) professional, working hand-in-hand with dedicate community members, has successfully worked to improve poor living conditions of community members.
SAVED TO SERVE Home-base care aim
Our home-based care programme aims to assist families in the surrounding communities as their needs arise. Our activities include support in daily activities, such as feeding or bathing, as well as counselling. We also put a lot of effort into networking with other similar organisations and government bodies so that we can effectively refer people in need to relevant service providers.
We also follow up on the children discharged from our other programmes to ensure that they cope well in their new circumstances. We conduct home visits and liaise with professionals from other organisations if necessary. It is a source of extreme pride when we can successfully reintegrate children into the mainstream education system after they spend some
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Outreach programmes
Day care centre
We firmly believe that it is in the best interest of all children to grow up in a stable and loving home environment. The establishment of our day care centre was based upon this ideal; services must be available in the communities for children with disabilities and orphanage. When mainstream schools and day care centres do not or cannot accommodate children with disabilities or orphans , parents have little choice but to apply for their children’s admission to residential facilities. They do this so that their children can receive therapy, but also to free themselves from the daily care their children need, enabling them to seek employment and provide for other members of their families.
Our day care centres provide ideal solutions for all the above challenges. Children with disabilities attend our centres on a daily basis, from Monday to Friday. In addition to receiving two nutritious meals a day, they also participate in various developmental and educational activities, so that they can reach their full potential. The parents, often single mothers, knowing that their children are in safe and capable hands, can venture out and find a job or study further, building a better future for themselves and their families.
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Duties of Home-based care
• Paying house to house visits to talk about HIV and TB prevention treatment and care and monitoring treatment adherence
• Referring clients in need to area coordinators and nurses who assess the situation and make care plans
• Teaching families about the need for cleanliness and especially clean water and sanitation and how to care for the sick and vulnerable
• Teaching about good nutrition
• Orphans and vulnerable children are helped with their caregivers, especially the grannies and child headed families
• Delivering HBC packs, food parcels and food supplements
• Assisting with referrals to government departments, especially Home Affairs
• Conduct awareness campaigns for group education
SAVED TO SERVE Home Based Care Programme developed as a result of the needs that were identified by Outreach Workers during their home visits. Not only were they finding children with mothers too ill to take care of them, but also children with parents who had died due to HIV/AIDS. They also discovered older people who had become frail and incapacitated and were no longer able to care for themselves or their grandchildren. SAVED TO SERVE Outreach Workers found themselves being increasingly confronted with these situations during their home visits.
One of Africa Foundation’s long-term goals is to continue empowering rural communities by responding to grass-roots community needs. In the Mutale community, a group of 15 women volunteers who care for orphaned and vulnerable children, as well as the elderly, has approached Africa Foundation for support. These volunteers conduct home visits and provide meals, support and counselling to over 100 children, as well as a number of adults. These home based care givers conduct support groups and give health talks with the community, as well as identifying children in need of support and putting them in touch with social workers. They assist community members with applications for birth certificates, identity documents and social grants. The women also conduct home visits to care for chronically ill patients and distributed food supplements.
Working from a dilapidated single-room structure that is in dire need of refurbishment, the volunteers lack suitable facilities to aid them in providing these services. Africa Foundations is currently facilitating the refurbishment of this structure, adding on more office space, a consultation room and a kitchen.







OUR BELIEFS

We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired Word of God, given to us by God our Creator to be a "lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path" (Psalm 119:105). Holding fast this truth, that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16), we strive to study, memorize and obey it, that we may grow in faith, wisdom and spiritual strength through our knowledge of and adherence to its truths.


God's Word as revealed in the Holy Bible is the basis and cornerstone of all our beliefs. It is the mainstay of our spiritual strength and nourishment; its principles are the foundation of the instruction we give our children, and its truth is the basis of the witness we give to others. We come to the Bible not merely as a source of knowledge, which indeed it is, but much more importantly, through a prayerful reading of its pages we are able to "partake of the Divine Nature" (2 Peter 1:4), to commune with Jesus, Who is Himself the living Word.


We affirm our belief in the one true eternal God, Who is the Creator and Supreme Ruler of the Universe and all things therein. We believe in the unity of the Godhead, that there are three distinguishable but inseparable Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


We believe in the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, Who gave Himself as the only ransom for sinners. We believe in His physical resurrection and His bodily ascension into Heaven, His perpetual intercession for His people, and His soon coming personal visible return to the world in power and great glory, to set up His Kingdom and to judge the living and the dead.


We believe that all men by nature are sinners, but that "God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life"(John 3:16). We believe therefore, that all persons who personally accept God's pardon for sin through Jesus Christ will be forgiven of sin, reconciled to God, and will live forever in God's presence.


We believe that the salvation of Mankind is wholly by grace [God's love and mercy], through Jesus Christ the Son of God, Who, in infinite love for the lost, voluntarily accepted His Father's will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb Who alone can take away our sins.


We believe that the Holy Spirit came forth from the Father to "reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment" (John 16:8). We hold the Holy Spirit to be the executive power by which believers are taught, instructed, inspired and empowered for their God-given mission; and that every believer should be filled therewith. "Be ye filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). The Holy Spirit is also known as "the Comforter", Who loves, nurtures and comforts the born-again child of God.


We believe that it is the privilege of the Spirit-filled believer to enjoy the benefits of the various spiritual gifts outlined in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. We believe that God gives different gifts to different people, according to their specific ministry and His particular plan for them.


We believe that Christians who are filled with the Holy Spirit should manifest the fruits of the Spirit as detailed in Scripture: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.


We believe the Great Commission which our Lord has given to His Church is to evangelize the world, to "go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). It is our conviction that this is the great mission of the Church and the explicit message of our Lord Jesus Christ to those whom He has saved; in fact, it was His final injunction to His followers before His ascension. We believe that this should be the born-again believer's primary purpose in life; to make Christ's love known to the whole world, and to seek to win others into God's Heavenly Kingdom. Whether or not the believer has received a formal ordination into the Gospel ministry from a denomination or institution is irrelevant, for we believe all Christians are ordained by God to preach His Gospel and win others to Christ, thereby bearing everlasting fruit for His Kingdom. "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit" (John 15:16).


We believe that it is a high privilege for a believer to affirmatively respond to Christ's challenge to follow Him as a full-time disciple. We also believe that Jesus' call to such full-time service remains essentially unchanged from that which He issued to the fishermen on the shores of Galilee long ago, "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men" (Matthew 4:19). As was the case with the first Apostles and disciples, so we believe it is today; that the Lord has called us to wholly commit ourselves to Him, to follow His teachings and His example, fully devoting our lives to Him out of love and gratitude for His sacrifice for us.