Covenant & Vision

Covenant

As a Christian Faith Community we seek to provide the following:

  • An accepting loving community that provides a sense of belonging to all who attend
  • A safe place to ask questions
  • Encouragement and help in identifying one’s spiritual gifts and talents
  • The opportunity to take risk and to confess struggles
  • Relationships that experience grace and forgiveness
  • Help in personal, marriage and family challenges
  • Teaching, study, and fellowship that connects to real life
  • Genuine sharing of material resources to help meet the needs of one another

Doylestown Mennonite ChurchMembers are people who commit themselves to following Jesus as the way to know God in relationship, by confessing Jesus as Lord and Savior.  This means to follow Jesus as currently understood with a commitment to learn more about Jesus as recorded in the Bible.   This includes committing one’s self to all followers of Jesus around the world as expressed in this local congregation known as Doylestown Mennonite Church.  Since the call is to active following, a lifetime journey of ongoing discipleship is necessary.  This life of discipleship is guided by and recognizes the following core values:

  • Being able and committed to expressing one’s faith as a living relationship with God
  • Accept the Biblically based Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective as the foundational theological framework and guide for teaching on positions
  • The need to gather regularly for worship, Bible study, encouragement, and fellowship
  • Actively contributing time, resources, talents, and abilities to enhance the ministry of the church
  • Willingness to give and receive counsel in Christian love
  • Willingness to submit personal preference for the greater good
  • Actively practice forgiving others who offend with a desire to reconcile

 —Covenant of Membership approved February 22, 2010

Become a Member

Doylestown Mennonite ChurchAny person is invited to become a member of Doylestown Mennonite Church who:

  • Desires to follow Jesus and confesses Jesus as Lord and Savior
  • Has been or will be baptized
  • Accepts the above covenant of membership

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.   I Corinthians 3:11 (NRSV)

Vision & Mission

VISION:         Taking risks with and for Christ

MISSION:      We share the love of Christ in words and actions with our neighbors and friends so they will grow with us as followers of Christ.