Who We Are

A church community on mission to advance the kingdom of Jesus for his glory.

Established in 2022, we are building a community of people in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area who are united in faith to follow Christ into the world as a people sent. The Lord is calling his church to be active participants in his kingdom. Read through each section below to find out more.

And then contact us to join us on this journey of faith.

  • Our proof text comes from John 17, sometimes called the “high priestly prayer.” It records Jesus praying to the Father, and it reveals a lot about his mission. Two key verses give us the name Sent:

    [3] And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

    [18] As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

    So we chose the name Sent because Jesus was sent by the Father to “give eternal life to all you have given him” (John 17:2). He’s talking about his elect people, his bride, the church. So SENT is a reminder of the only reason we exist: Jesus and him crucified.

    Secondly, the name SENT encapsulates the identity and purpose of a church. God gave Jesus authority over all flesh and he has collected his disciples for a very important task. Verses 20 to 23 of John 17 say:

    [20] “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, [21] that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. [22] The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, [23] I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.”

    We have been called out by Jesus and sent into the world to display the glory of Christ and his oneness with the Father and Holy Spirit. Jesus says his church is “also in us,” which means we have communion with God through Jesus. His church is the divinely ordained vessel sent into the world with this gospel message:

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have enteral life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. - John 3:16-17

  • We have intentionally called ourselves a missional church community rather than just “church” in order to convey the Biblical intent of the local church.

    Missional. The word missional has come to mean a certain style of church in recent years. However, no individual expression of church lays claim to the missional mandate. We view missional as a church that is participating in the missio dei, the mission of God to redeem and restore his creation.

    Church. Those whom Christ has redeemed are part of his Church (big C). The local church (little c) are expressions of the big Church planted in communities all across the world. We seek to obey the Lord’s commandments in Scripture for what a God-honoring church should look like.

    Community. Faith is not practiced alone. We serve a God who has community in his very trinitarian nature. A community does life together. They don’t just see each other for one hour a week on Sundays.

Vision and Mission

Sent Missional Church Community is a church community on mission to advance the kingdom of Jesus for his glory.

Christ tells us what the mission is in Matthew 28:19-20:

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

This is what we mean by advancing the kingdom. The gospel is all about the kingdom.

He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. - Colossians 1:13-14

Jesus proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God: Christ has become our salvation. Anyone who places faith in the resurrected Jesus will be saved from eternal darkness. His kingdom is spiritual, it is not of this world. The kingdom is not advanced by land, but in the hearts of people.

The cross provides the way. He is advancing His kingdom. We merely have the privilege of participating in this work.

As such, we see Kingdom advancement when the church participates in the following three areas:

Kingdom Presence

Jesus’ kingdom is advanced through His presence. “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain” (Psalm 127:1). His Spirit gives us life, empowers us and sustains us. We look UP to God in worshipful surrender. Apart from Jesus we can do nothing (John 15). Jesus is our treasure. Our life is hidden with Him in God. Abiding in our union with Him is foremost.

Kingdom Building

Jesus’ kingdom is advanced by building up the church to spiritual maturity (Ephesians 4). The Spirit sanctifies us in the truth (1 Peter 1:2). We live by faith. We repent and grow. We sharpen one another, bear one another’s burdens, pray for one another, and love one another in the context of a local body of believers.

Kingdom Expanding

Jesus’ kingdom is advanced when new believers are added to the kingdom. We are ambassadors for Christ, God makes his appeal through us. We go and make disciples: build new relationships, share the gospel of Jesus, and lead people to Christ. “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9). We live out the gospel and proclaim the gospel, and the Spirit shines the light of the gospel in the hearts of mankind.

 What We Believe

We are a local Christian church. We confess that Jesus is Lord and that God raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9-10). It is by his grace alone through abiding faith in Jesus alone that we have eternal life (Galatians 2:8-9; John 15; 1 Peter 1:3-9). We worship the trinitarian God: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. The Bible is the inerrant Word of God. We are sanctified in this truth by the Spirit (John 17).

We believe faith is meant to be lived out in keeping with repentance (Luke 3:8), so we practice weekly rhythms beyond just an hour gathering on Sunday. The Apostle Paul tells us in Philippians 1:27:

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel

We strive together to be united in the Spirit. Each day is a gospel-empowered opportunity to be fruitful. We aren’t perfect, but Christ is. His grace is sufficient to sustain us in our weakness.

We align with the Christian & Missionary Alliance, so read their statement of faith to see what we believe more in-depth.