Welcome to Elmvale Community Church. We are a community of believers in Jesus Christ committed to Loving God and Loving Others. We follow in the Way of Jesus and dedicate ourselves to: Being with Jesus. Becoming like Jesus. Doing what Jesus did.
- We are finding wholeness in sharing community with neighbours marked by generosity and self-sacrifice.
- We are finding freedom submitting our lives to the leading of the Spirit to do bold and audacious things for God.
- We are finding peace in doing the right things, not the popular things.
- We are finding significance and joy in living love and restoring people, marriages, families, our community, and the world around us back to God.
Checkout our latest teaching below:
Do you truly have faith in God if He has to operate on your terms? Instead of having faith in God, you actually have faith in your own hope or understanding about Him. We can’t allow our trust in our understanding disguise itself as trust in God because as soon as He operates outside our understanding, we assume that He has failed. Sometimes when doubt or disappointment has taken root in our hearts, we can’t even see the provision of God right in front of us.
The service is modelled around a 12th century Good Friday tradition called the Tenebrae, which means the service of shadows. This will be a responsive reflection on Christ’s last moments, His abandonment by His disciples and will end with His last words on the cross. As we progress through the night, candles will be extinguished to illustrate the loneliness and the darkness that faced Jesus’ soul as His followers abandoned Him and as He faced becoming the sacrifice for our sins.