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We believe God's vision for us is to be a contemporary church, believer based, seeker sensitive, creatively and consistently evangelizing, encouraging, establishing and equipping people in the Word and the Spirit to worship and witness. We are called to reach out intentionally, creatively, boldly and lovingly to the unconverted and unchurched. 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