What is "an authentic faith community" anyway?

At Voyage, we want to do more than talk about being Christ followers, we want to grow in an authentic relationship with God.

We value maintaining a balance between discovering God’s truth, growing and thriving in our relationship with God, and living out our faith in practical ways. You will find that we emphasize all three as vital parts of our experience here at Voyage.

Being authentic means we will apply ourselves to discovering God's Truth.

At Voyage, we teach the truth of the Bible. We learn directly from God's Word, we don't dress it up or focus on what other people SAY about the Bible, we go straight to the Word itself. The Bible is a transforming book! In our effort to be authentic followers of Christ, we don't only learn and follow the parts that we want to hear, and skip over what is inconvenient to our life, we allow ourselves to learn the whole truth of what God intends for our good.

Being authentic means we will be growing in our faith.

We creatively design our Sunday gatherings to help you grow at your own pace in a relationship with God. You can simply observe and learn, or you can participate as little or as much as you want. We provide thrive stations around the room if you would like to take part in communion, write in the community journal, or worship God by leaving prayer requests and praises. You may get up at any time during our singing time to visit the thrive stations. You may sing during the music time, lift your hands, or simply shut your eyes and sense God's presence.

We often times have take home study sheets or Bible verses for you to meditate on and study during the week. You can find them at a thrive station or the
welcome table. We don't want to be followers of Christ only on Sundays, we want to be growing through the week. If you want to meet with Pastor Jerry personally for encouragement in your faith, feel free to contact him!

Being authentic means we will pour out love to others.

As an authentic faith community we give up our regular Sunday format one time a month to pour ourselves out to other people. That is what being an authentic follower of Christ is about, we not only take the time to learn God's word, but we live out what we learn by sacrificing for other people. We call that corporate time of serving our Impact Sunday. We encourage everyone at Voyage to participate and grow with us as we learn to be more like Christ.

Our goal in all we do is to be growing in love with God and others.