Vision Statement

With God’s help and in God’s time, we aspire:

1.  To develop into a healthy, growing congregation!  A healthy church is marked by faithful, vital, God-exalting, Christ-centered, Spirit-dependent, Bible-base worship, discipleship, fellowship, service and evangelism, all in a way that is guided by the Scriptures and expressed in the full-orbed clarity of Reformed Christianity as summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms.  A growing congregation so effectively reaches out that it increases in size, in structure, in ministries, in influence and in resources to serve the Kingdom of Christ.

2.  To be instrumental in planting and encouraging healthy, growing OPC congregations throughout the Western Michigan triplex area which work together to accomplish what no single congregation can!  Namely…

a.  To encourage, train and send out workers for gospel ministry (pastors, elders, deacons, missionaries, missionary associates, lay workers, youth workers);
b.  To impact western Michigan for King Jesus across the whole spectrum of life through our laity (seeking to consecrate to him education, the arts, business, labor, politics, etc):
c.  To plant and encourage healthy, growing congregations throughout Michigan, northern Indiana, and Ontario; and
d.  To support and assist OPC church planting and foreign mission endeavors nationwide and worldwide. 

3.  To participate in seeking revival, reformation, and reconciliation, first in ourselves, then in the larger Body of Christ around the world. 

Strategy Statement

In order to fulfill this mission, we aim to foster:

1.  PRAYER which is humble, dependent, expectant, persistent—in secret, in families, in informal gatherings, and in public worship;

2.  WORSHIP which exalts God & is reverent, which consciously depends on the mediation of Christ, which is regulated by Scripture, and which expects the Holy Spirit to draw near through the means of grace – in secret, in families, and in public assemblies;

3.  EDIFICATION of believers
a.  by providing faithful preaching & teaching which ever points to Christ, explicates the Bible, and is clear, practical, and bold;
b.  by providing faithful shepherding care which is intentional, diligent, vigilant, encouraging, which seeks both to train and to correct;
c.  by seeking to cultivate and encourage loving fellowship & service which is inclusive, supportive, concrete, continuous and compassionate;

4.  OUTREACH with Cedar Church as an aggressive mission to reach the world with the full-orbed gospel of the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ:
a.  by seeking to actively evangelize our own community
b.  by seeking to plant healthy churches which will seek to plant healthy churches,
c.  by faithfully supporting OPC home and foreign mission endeavors through
     •  prayer
     •  giving
     •  service; and
d.  seeking reformation and revival throughout the church universal; by seeking to contribute toward building her up in peace, purity, unity and growth.