MISSION Gather, Grow, Go. College Hill Presbyterian Church exists to glorify God by gathering people to Christ and into his family, growing them in Christ and the life of his family, and going to proclaim Christ and expand his family.
VISION The vision of College Hill Presbyterian Church is to be a dynamic, growing family centered in Christ.
VALUES We will be a family. Our church is a place to know and be known, rather than be seen. The greater part of our life together will happen over a table, rather than staring ahead. Our fellowship will be marked by reverent unpretentiousness, embracing our mutual brokenness and dependence on God’s grace. As a family we will expect conflict, pursue reconciliation, and bear with one another in love. As in a family, we all contribute to the life of the household.
We will be a family centered in Christ. We are a supernaturally gathered family. Our unity is in Jesus, by the bond of the Spirit, for the glory of the Father. The Gospel is the tie that binds our family and the center that holds it together. We believe in the total truthfulness of the Scripture and submit to it as the only infallible rule of our household life and faith.
We will be a Presbyterian / Reformed family. We are happily a member church of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and maintain fellowship and accountability with our sister churches. We are committed to Reformed theological orthodoxy as expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith.
We will be an open family . Our family house will have a large front door to welcome outsiders. Not only the married-with-kids, but also internationals, college students, singles, and widows will find a belonging among us. We will be a safe space for the wounded, seekers, and doubters to explore the claims of Jesus and the truth of his Gospel. Firm in the Gospel, we will engage our cultural and secondary theological differences with charity rather than antagonism.
We will be a family with a story . We love the fact that we are a historical church and feel a continuity with those who have come before us and worshiped and served God in this place. The story of our church and its family traditions will shape who we are in an ongoing way.
We will be a family with children . We will be a church full of babies, children, and youth and a culture that welcomes them as Jesus does. We will partner with parents to raise their children in the faith and be the Christian family for unchurched kids. We will be an easy place for families to engage and for members of all ages to invest in the next generation.
We will be an intergenerational family . We will be a church where the generations relate closely. We recognize the importance of age-and-stage groups but will pursue interconnectedness and resist generational siloing.
We will be a family on a mission . Never content with the family “as it is” we will labor to reach our neighbors with the Gospel. We will cultivate our connectedness to other faithful churches, valuing the visible unity of the Body and working together for the common good. We will pray, give, and go to support the advancement of the mission of God locally and to the ends of the earth.