We envision a church in Eastern Baltimore County that is going into the community to show the love of Christ by serving people.

Our Purpose

By God’s grace, we will reach the unchurched, helping them experience changed lives as they connect to God and LifeBridge Church, grow in their relationship with God, serve others, share the Gospel with the unchurched, and praise God with their life.

Five Biblical Purposes

• Connect (Fellowship): Being committed to the congregation, truly caring for one another on an ongoing basis.
• Grow (Discipleship): Teaching the Word of God and training those who are committed to growing in Christ.
• Serve (Ministry): Encouraging servant attitudes, reaching out to one another and non believers as a core of workers.
• Share (Evangelism): Sharing the Gospel of Christ, both reaching non believers from the community and teaching believers the priority of evangelism and how to share Christ.
• Praise (Worship): Praising God in the crowd on Sunday morning, as well as teaching the importance of loving God with our whole being in all our life the other six days a week.

Our Structure

Our church is led and governed by Pastors, (also called elders or shepherds in the Bible), spiritually mature men who have been called by God to that task. Teaching the Bible, praying, equipping the members for ministry, determining ministry philosophy and policy, exercising church discipline, watching out for false doctrine, and leading by example are all part of their responsibilities as seen in Scriptures.

Our Staff, people who have committed themselves to oversee ministries, act as coaches to the team. Staff may be volunteer or paid. Along with the Pastors, the Staff seek to equip members in the church to do the work of ministry.

Members of the church are equipped, empowered and released to serve the Lord as a team. They are encouraged to use their spiritual gifts to build up fellow believers. They are also taught to share their faith with those who have not yet believed in Jesus for salvation. Members are encouraged to be participators, not spectators.

As a church, we gather to worship, be taught and equipped for ministry to others, and to fellowship. We meet in small groups for fellowship and ministry. We meet in one large assembly for worship. We then scatter to be ambassadors in this world for Christ.

Our Strategy

We seek to reach the un-churched for Christ, seeing them become believers, then members of our church, who are growing in spiritual maturity, and becoming equipped ministers for Christ in the church and the world.

This is accomplished as we reach out to the following five groups of people:

• The community: These are people in our areas who are un-churched. Our goal is to lead them to become attenders, with the hope that they will accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
• The crowd: These are regular attenders at church, but not yet members. Our goal is to lead them to membership after they have committed their lives to Christ and declared it publicly through believer’s baptism.
• The congregation: These are members of the church. Our goal is to lead them to a commitment to growing towards spiritual maturity.
• The committed: These are those who are truly committed to ongoing growth in their Christian lives. Our goal is to lead them to become active ministers of Christ, both in the church and in the world.
• The core: These are the active ministers, people who are participating in service to Christ. Our goal is to see them reaching out as Christ’s ambassadors to the community, starting the whole process over again.

The Community is reached primarily in the following way:

• Through our personal contact with friends, neighbors, and associates.
• Through “Bridge Events” put on by the church, events such as Christmas and Easter Dramas, Community Festivals on the church grounds, booths at community events, Friend Day at church, etc.