About Copper Hills

Jesus is our matchless King and Leader, and He is deserving of our worship and gratitude! We believe that our response to His mission for us is to help each other increasingly be with Him, so we together increasingly think like Him, so we can be increasingly mistaken for Him in the world. 

We have a house rule here: no perfect people allowed! We welcome you and look forward to gathering together in the presence of a perfect God and experiencing the immeasurable love and grace He has for us as imperfect people. 

We are dedicated to the spiritual growth of every member of the family - including kids and students.  Our vision is for each child and student to become independently dependent on Jesus through an active personal relationship with Him. 

We strive to be a genuine expression of hope and light within the community God has placed us in. We want to be a magnetic influence for Jesus in our neighborhood. Everything from our campus to Well Coffee Co. to the Center for the Arts exists to serve our community.

We believe in the one true God, the source of all life, who reigns over all things as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and who lovingly cares for all creation. God the Father planned the redemption of humanity and sent Jesus Christ the Son to be the Savior of the world. Jesus proclaimed the reign of God, bringing good news to the poor and triumphing over sin through His obedient life, death, and resurrection. God, the Holy Spirit empowers believers with new life, indwells them, and unites them in one body.

We believe God has made Himself known to all people. Beginning with creation and culminating in Jesus Christ, God has revealed Himself in the Old and New Testaments. All Scripture is inspired by God and is the authoritative guide for faith and practice. We interpret the Scripture in the church community as guided by the Holy Spirit.

We believe God created the heavens and the earth, and they were good. Humans, God’s crowning act, were created in the image of God. Sin has alienated humanity from the Creator and creation, but God offers redemption and reconciliation through Jesus Christ.

We believe sin is individual and corporate opposition to God’s good purposes and leads to physical and spiritual death.

We believe God saves all people who put their faith in Jesus Christ. By His obedient life, sacrificial death, and victorious resurrection, Christ delivers people from the tyranny of sin and death and redeems them for eternal life in the age to come. All creation eagerly awaits its liberation from bondage into the freedom of the glory of God’s children.

We believe the church is the covenant community called by God through Jesus Christ to live a life of discipleship and witness as empowered by the Holy Spirit. The local church gathers regularly for worship, fellowship, and accountability, and to discern, develop, and exercise gifts for ministry.

We believe the mission of the church is to make disciples of all nations by calling people to repent, to be baptized, and to love God and neighbor by sharing the good news and doing acts of love and compassion.

We believe baptism by water is a public sign that a person has repented of sin, received forgiveness, died with Christ, and has been raised to new life through the power of the Holy Spirit. Baptism is also a public declaration of a believer’s incorporation into the body of Christ as expressed in the local church.

We believe that in obedience to Christ, the church observes the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of His atoning death and to celebrate forgiveness, new life, and the fellowship and unity of all believers.

We believe Jesus calls people who have experienced the new birth to follow Him in a costly life of service to God. The power of the Holy Spirit transforms believers from the unrighteous pattern of the present age into a life of joyful obedience with God’s people.

We believe that singleness and marriage are honored by God and should be blessed by the church. God instituted marriage as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman for the purpose of companionship, encouragement, sexual intimacy, and procreation. Children are a gift from God and should be nurtured by parents in the ways of God.

We believe that God instituted the state to promote justice and to maintain law and order. Christians’ primary allegiance is to Christ’s kingdom. Believers are called to witness against injustice, exercise social responsibility, and obey all laws that do not conflict with the Word of God.

We actively pursue peace and reconciliation in all relationships by following Christ’s example and His command to love God, neighbors, and even enemies. We strive to be peacemakers and agents of reconciliation in families, churches, communities, in our nation, and throughout the world. As peacemakers, we alleviate suffering, reduce strife, promote justice, and work to end violence and war so others may see a demonstration of Christ’s love. Some of us choose to participate in the military while others choose alternative forms of service. Because Jesus is Lord, we acknowledge Him as our ultimate authority.  

We believe that God is Creator and giver of life, and highly values each person. Procedures designed to take human life are wrong. We oppose all attitudes which devalue human life, especially the defenseless lives of the unborn, disabled, poor, aging, and dying.

We believe the universe and everything in it belongs to God the Creator and that we have been entrusted by God to manage its resources. All God’s gifts, including money, time, abilities, and influence, are to be received with thanksgiving, used responsibly, and shared generously.

We believe God’s act of creation provides the model for work and rest. In work, we use our abilities to glorify God and serve others. In rest, we express thanks for God’s provision and trust in God’s sustaining grace. In worship, we gather to commemorate the resurrection through worship, instruction, fellowship, and service.

We believe God’s atoning work in Jesus is the only means of reconciling people with God. God has not left any without a witness to the Creator’s goodness and power. Christians treat people of other faiths with respect, but urgently proclaim Christ as the only way of salvation.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ will return triumphantly at the end of this age to destroy all evil powers, condemn all who have rejected Christ to eternal punishment, and unite believers with Christ to reign forever with God in glory.