Why does Hanover Valley Presbyterian Church exist?

The answer is simple: Hanover Valley exists to assist people in knowing Jesus Christ, until there is a visible difference in their quality of life and in the community. We believe that the Gospel of Christ has a tremendous power to produce postive transformation spiritually, psychologically, socially, and culturally - first through ourselves and then through the community by word, deed, and community.

We believe that historic Christianity has the resources to meet this challenge, by connecting people to God, to one another and to their communities. First and foremost, Hanover Valley wants to help people establish a vital link with God. We wholeheartedly believe that people will never be complete unless they establish an actual relationship with God and come to know Him personally. It is for such a relationship that we were made, and our hearts are restless until this relationship exists. The good news is that through Jesus Christ it is possible to have this vital link with God. Though we joyfully invite every person to faith in Jesus, we are committed to sacrificially serving our neighbors whether they believe as we do or not.

What kind of church do we need to be to make a difference in Hanover? To help people know, love, and serve God through Jesus Christ? We are striving to be a church with an open door to those who seek Christ and a clear path for those who are journeying toward Him.

AN OPEN DOOR

Hanover Valley is committed to maintaining an open door to anyone interested in knowing more about Jesus Christ. We welcome the questions, objections, and problems of people searching for truth, and we are committed to responding with honesty and compassion, not hostility or condescension. While some churches are almost completely for those skeptical of Christianity and others are only for those who are confident believers, we hope you'll find people here all along the spectrum of discovery - those who are convinced, those who are perplexed, and those who are skeptical of the Christian faith. We revel in this diversity.

OUR CONNECTIONS

While Hanover Valley is a new church, having just begun morning services in September of 1998, we are not new in the structure of our faith and practice. We are firmly rooted in the mainstream of historic Christianity. We wholeheartedly embrace the historic faith as expressed in the ecumenical creeds of the universal church, such as the Apostles' Creed and Nicene Creeds. We are also committed to the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition through our commitment to the Westminster Confession of Faith. (Copies of these creeds and confessions are available upon request.) Hanover Valley is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America, a denomination with churches throughout North America.

Our vision is to be a Biblically based, Christ centered, grace oriented church for the Hanover area. We want to become a people who are daily living out the acceptance, freedom, and power of Christ, reaching out to a broken world through genuine and caring relationships, expanding God's kingdom life by life.