“People empowering people and communities in all areas of life to the glory of God”. Our foresight is to be that of an Impact Center. We recognize it is not about us. God can never fully bless us until we take our eyes off ourselves and begin to place them upon God, His kingdom and other people. Simply put we are called to preach the gospel; to teach people to live Christ-like; to practice love; to give priority to prayer; to increase in the wisdom and favor of God; to fulfill purpose and to enjoy God.
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 everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
James David Gailliard was born and raised in North Philadelphia. He is the father of 5 children (4 living). After many years in corporate America, he accepted a call to full-time ministry and has spent the last 15 years of his life dedicated to human, economic, and community development.
We believe that by holding fast to our core values we help ourselves and others to THRIVE
We view The Bible as authoritative, inerrant, our standard for truth and obedience.
We believe in loving the Lord God with our whole hearts.
We depend on God for every area of our lives.
We see prayer, both individual and corporate, is crucial in doing God’s work.
We equip believers for a passion-driven, gift-based ministry.
Our mission revolves around taking Christ to the nations by giving, praying, and going
We believe in loving relationships for acceptance, caring for others, and forgiving.
Our worships are vibrant, heartfelt, reflective
Our small groups are created for spiritual growth and relationship building.
We seek to strengthen families and create strong youth, children’s, and young adult ministries.
We seek to develop leader, who will in turn develop other leaders.
We affirm our belief in the one-eternal God, Creator and Lord of the world, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who governs all things according to the purpose of his will. He has been calling out from the world a people for himself, and sending his people back into the world to be his servants and his witnesses, for the extension of his kingdom, the building up of Christ’s body, and the glory of his name. We confess with shame that we have often denied our calling and failed in our mission, by becoming conformed to the world or by withdrawing from it. Yet we rejoice that even when borne by earthen vessels the gospel is still a precious treasure. To the task of making that treasure known in the power of the Holy Spirit we desire to dedicate ourselves anew.
We affirm the divine inspiration, truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety as the only written word of God, without error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. We also affirm the power of God’s word to accomplish his purpose of salvation. The message of the Bible is addressed to all men and women. For God’s revelation in Christ and in Scripture is unchangeable. Through it the Holy Spirit still speaks today. He illumines the minds of God’s people in every culture to perceive its truth freshly through their own eyes and thus discloses to the whole Church ever more of the many-colored wisdom of God.
We affirm that there is only one Saviour and only one gospel, although there is a wide diversity of evangelistic approaches. We recognize that everyone has some knowledge of God through his general revelation in nature. But we deny that this can save, for people suppress the truth by their unrighteousness. We also reject as derogatory to Christ and the gospel every kind of syncretism and dialogue which implies that Christ speaks equally through all religions and ideologies. Jesus Christ, being himself the only God-man, who gave himself as the only ransom for sinners, is the only mediator between God and people. There is no other name by which we must be saved. All men and women are perishing because of sin, but God loves everyone, not wishing that any should perish but that all should repent. Yet those who reject Christ repudiate the joy of salvation and condemn themselves to eternal separation from God. To proclaim Jesus as “the Saviour of the world” is not to affirm that all people are either automatically or ultimately saved, still less to affirm that all religions offer salvation in Christ. Rather it is to proclaim God’s love for a world of sinners and to invite everyone to respond to him as Saviour and Lord in the wholehearted personal commitment of repentance and faith. Jesus Christ has been exalted above every other name; we long for the day when every knee shall bow to him and every tongue shall confess him Lord.