About Us

Our mission at VCC is to make, mature, and mobilize apprentices of Jesus. This is our way of talking about the global Church’s universal call—the Great Commission found in Matthew 28v18-20.

Our Beliefs

We believe in the one true God, eternally existing in three equally divine persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, who created all things, and revealed Himself ultimately in the person and work of Jesus Christ, and in Scripture which testifies to Him.

(Genesis 1:1-2; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 139:7-8; Job 33:4; Matthew 12:32; Luke 24:27; John 1:1, 5:39, 8:58, 14:16; Acts 5:3-4; 1 Corinthians 2:10, 3:16, 8:6, 12:4-6; 2 Corinthians 13:14; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 1:3, 9:14)
We believe the sixty-six books of Scripture are alone the inspired Word of God, infallible, authoritative, and sufficient to reveal His will for salvation.

Proverbs 30:5; Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 4:4, 5:18; John 10:35, 14:26, 17:17; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 6:18; 2 Peter 1:19-21, 3:16; Revelation 22:18-19)
We believe that humanity was made in the image of God for loving relationship with God, but through rebellion broke that relationship and is therefore under God’s just condemnation. Humanity’s only hope of reconciliation is God’s gracious intervention.

(Genesis 1:26-27; 3:1-24; John 15:4-5; Romans 3:10, 23-25; 2 Corinthians 4:4, 5:18-20; Ephesians 2:1-10; Colossians 1:20; 1 John 3:4-5)
We believe that, in love, the Father authored salvation and sent His Son Jesus who, being fully God and fully man, accomplished salvation, defeating sin, Satan, and death through His sinless life, substitutionary death on the cross, and bodily resurrection. Jesus then ascended to the right hand of the Father to send the Holy Spirit to apply salvation by graciously uniting sinners to the Son through their faith in the Son.

(Isaiah 53; Luke 24:51; John 3:5, 36, 12:31; Romans 3:25, 4:25, 15:16; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13, 4:4; Ephesians 1:3-14; 2:1-10; Colossians 2:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Hebrews 2:14-15, 4:15, 9:22, 10:10; 1 Peter 1:2-5, 3:22; 1 John 3:8, 4:2)
We believe that God has created His church by His Word and Spirit, and that His Spirit indwells the church individually and corporately, empowering them to live godly lives and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to all people in word and deed.

(Genesis 12:1-3; Matthew 5:13-16, 28:19-20; Acts 1:8, 2:38-47, Romans 1:6; 1 Corinthians 1:2, 10:10-15, 12:12-13; Galatians 3:2, 7-9, 27-29; Ephesians 4:4-16)
We believe that God has given His church baptism and communion, the signs and seals of the New Covenant, to be received by faith as visible declarations of the gospel.

(Matthew 26:26-29, 28:19-20; Luke 22:14-20; Romans 4:11-12, 6:3-6; Galatians 3:27; Colossians 2:11-12; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; 1 Peter 3:21-22)
We believe in the bodily return of Jesus Christ as King and Judge, the future arrival of the new heaven and new earth, and the bodily resurrection of the unjustified to eternal condemnation and the justified to eternal glory.

(Matthew 24:29-31, 27, 44, 25:31-46; John 3:36, 14:3; Acts 1:11; Romans 2:6-8, 6:23, 8:30, 34; 1 Corinthians 15:12-57; Philippians 3:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:16-17; 2 Thessalonians 1:5-10; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:27; Jude 14; Revelation 1:7, 19:11-16, 21:1)

Our Distinctives

Love the Enemy
The Church is called to be a forgiving, sacrificial, and non-coercive people who use power for the good of others.

Love the Poor
The Church is called to care for the poor and suffering, meeting needs with joyful generosity.

Love the Vulnerable
The Church is committed to the sanctity of life, acknowledging and honoring image bearers of all ages (from conception to death).

Love the Body
The Church lives by a biblically defined vision of sexuality, marriage, and gender—we are called to a holy sexuality.

Love the Other
The church is a multi-racial community born of grace that embodies radical hospitality and crosses ethnic and national boundaries.

The Seven Practices of Apprenticeship

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Listening to God’s Word above all other voices.

UNCEASING PRAYER

Talking to God first and most about everything.

LIFE TOGETHER

Living in a confessing community of knowing and being known.

UNHURRIED PRESENCE

Being present to God’s presence in the moment He has given you.

JOYFUL GENEROSITY

Gladly giving to others what God has gladly given to you.

COMPASSIONATE GENTLENESS

Stewarding power with sacrificial love.

FAITHFUL WITNESS

Telling the good news of Jesus with words and deeds.

About Us

Our mission at VCC is to make, mature, and mobilize apprentices of Jesus. This is our way of talking about the global Church’s universal call—the Great Commission found in Matthew 28v18-20.

We believe in the one true God, eternally existing in three equally divine persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, who created all things, and revealed Himself ultimately in the person and work of Jesus Christ, and in Scripture which testifies to Him.

We believe the sixty-six books of Scripture are alone the inspired Word of God, infallible, authoritative, and sufficient to reveal His will for salvation.

We believe that humanity was made in the image of God for loving relationship with God, but through rebellion broke that relationship and is therefore under God’s just condemnation. Humanity’s only hope of reconciliation is God’s gracious intervention.

We believe that God has created His church by His Word and Spirit, and that His Spirit indwells the church individually and corporately, empowering them to live godly lives and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to all people in word and deed.

We believe that God has given His church baptism and communion, the signs and seals of the New Covenant, to be received by faith as visible declarations of the gospel.

We believe in the bodily return of Jesus Christ as King and Judge, the future arrival of the new heaven and new earth, and the bodily resurrection of the unjustified to eternal condemnation and the justified to eternal glory.

Our Distinctives

The Seven Practices of Apprenticeship

To Make, Mature, and Mobilize Apprentices of Jesus.

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