Welcome to Elmvale Community Church. We are a community of believers in Jesus Christ committed to Loving God and Loving Others. We follow in the Way of Jesus and dedicate ourselves to: Being with Jesus. Becoming like Jesus. Doing what Jesus did.
- We are finding wholeness in sharing community with neighbours marked by generosity and self-sacrifice.
- We are finding freedom submitting our lives to the leading of the Spirit to do bold and audacious things for God.
- We are finding peace in doing the right things, not the popular things.
- We are finding significance and joy in living love and restoring people, marriages, families, our community, and the world around us back to God.
Checkout our latest teaching below:
What happened after Jesus’ resurrection wasn’t a huge display of power and importance – He appeared intimately to His followers, encouraging them, preparing them for what came next… the excitement of Acts, but also their own suffering and death.
The Bible does talk about a spectacle after Jesus’ resurrection - but not the kind we think. Paul says we are the spectacle… not in strength, but in weakness - so that when people look at our lives, they don’t see how impressive we are, they see how powerful Jesus is.
1 Cor. 4:9, “I sometimes think God has put us apostles on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade, condemned to die. We have become a spectacle to the entire world—to people and angels alike.”
Jesus prepares us, ordinary people, to carry His resurrection life into everyday places to lay our lives down for Him. You don’t need a platform. You don’t need incredible insight or wisdom. You don’t need flashy displays. You just need to be with Jesus, so that you can become more like Him, so that you can love people like He did…
The resurrection of Jesus is the promise that we too will be restored. It’s the best news that we could ever experience. And Jesus doesn’t want us to be quiet about it… He wants our celebration to reflect the celebration that is happening in heaven.