Variety and Opportunity; that's what you'll find when you are our guest. But one thing you should expect in every Assemblies of God church is a personal, uplifting worship experience. Our services are geared for participation. We typically worship as we live, with enthusiasm. We have no "dress code" - you'll see suits and jeans (modesty is key), but we're more interested in you than in your clothes. Our goal is to give you a place to connect.

Bible Classes for All Ages

Sundays begin with an hour-long opportunity for sharing, relationship building, and learning. Bible Life Fellowship begins with a continental breakfast and offers personalized classes divided by age, grade and interests serve individuals from infants through adults.

Child Care

A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers at all Christian Life Center services. This loving, comfortable atmosphere helps show children at the earliest ages that church is a good place to be. Child care also frees parents for worship and reduces distractions.

Children's Worship

Bible-oriented activities are provided for preschool and elementary-age children. Children's Church begins once the children and teachers are dismissed from the main worship service. At this level, young children are taught to sing, pray, memorize Scripture and learn important Bible truths. They are instructed and led in worship at their own levels.

Music

Music is a major feature of our worship, before, during and even after the service itself. Instruments range from piano and keyboard to bass, guitars, and drums. Our worship will blend traditional hymns, hand-clapping praise songs, contemporary compositions and reverent worshipful choruses. Music will include both congregational and special ministries; solos, duets, ensembles, instrumentals. Our music is more than a performance; it's the music of worship.

Worship Experience

The service may include quiet times of waiting in God's presence, spiritually savoring the sacred atmosphere. Other times may be vocal with collective praise as worshippers are invited to spontaneously express love and adoration to God. Worship will reflect our diverse personalities. Some are quiet and reserved; some shout with joy; others are simply tender and openly emotional during times of praise or preaching. No sincere worshipper need feel out of place in Christian Life Center. And each expression will blend without disruption into the flow of worship.

Prayer

A special time in the service is devoted to prayer. Needs from inside and outside the church family frequently are made known. The congregation will pray together. All may pray aloud but conclude with a single voice, the worship leader or other designated person praying in behalf of all.

Ministry to the Sick

As in the New Testament, specific prayer may be offered for the sick. They will be invited forward to be anointed with oil (James 5:13-16) and/or have the ministers, leaders or other believers lay hands on them and pray (Mark 16:18).

Giving

During the service, tithes and offerings will be received. More than a collection to pay church bills, this too is worship. Our members feel giving the tithe (the first tenth of income) and offerings declares that God comes first. It recognizes His blessing, expresses faith and seeks His guidance in every matter in life. The ministries of the local church and globe-encircling work of the Assemblies of God are supported solely by free-will giving. However, visitors need not feel obligated to give.

Spiritual Gifts

At Christian Life Center, we welcome the operation of spiritual gifts. The planned service order may be suspended as individuals speak or share as prompted by the Holy Spirit, under the supervision of the pastor (1 Corinthians 12-14). One may speak out in an unknown tongue, a Spirit-guided language other than that of the congregation. Another individual, or perhaps the same one, will then give the interpretation.

On occasion, the Spirit may prompt someone to speak out, to prophesy, in the language of the congregation. The gift of prophecy, the gift of tongues and the gift of interpretation, and other spiritual gifts bring the church immediate challenge and confirm Bible truths.

Challenging Messages

Every service includes with the reading and preaching of God's Word, the Bible, and an invitation for hearers to respond. The messages are relevant, inspiring and practical. The pastor or speaker may close with an invitation for those who need forgiveness in their lives to come forward and accept Christ as Savior. Those who feel a need to rededicate their lives to Christ or to pray about other concerns are also invited to come. Believers are urged to ask God for the baptism in the Holy Spirit to further empower them for Christian service. Often everyone is invited to come pray during the altar service.