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Highlands County has many churches, and we are very thankful for the ways God is using believers that are teaching His Word and sharing the salvation of Jesus in many places. We at Grace see ourselves as an exciting part of what God is doing in this community. We have four defining purposes that govern all that we do:
Grace is a place for people who desire to WORSHIP. That means we provide a number of different opportunities in the week to gather with other followers of Jesus and tell God that He is awesome and worthy of praise! We believe that worship is not simply music, singing, preaching or prayer - it is taking the time to open our hearts to God individually and together. We create several different kinds of services to help us together grow in praise.
Our children are a vital part of our outreach (upper left). We want every age to learn to work together and see how God is faithful at every stage of life. Yes, we also like to eat (as Marvin Good demonstrates for us)! We believe worship can be fun, active and even a bit noisy. It is telling God that He is worth loving, and worth serving.
Grace is a place for LEARNING. We have many opportunities from small group studies to large meetings where we open our Bibles and study them thoroughly. We sponsor the Great Commission Bible Institute where students come from all over the US to study the Word. We take the Bible seriously, and believe it contains the principles to live a life pleasing to the Lord in every way. Expect every message to be a careful exposition of the Scriptures.
Pastor Randy teaches a Bible study group. Our teaching ministry is geared toward helping each person learn how to personally study God's Word for themselves.
Grace is a place to BELONG. We love to get people involved in each other’s lives. We are an active body with a ton of ways to share your life with other people. Some of us have come through deep hurts and will lift your heart with stories of how God brought us through.
Grace is a place to MAKE A DIFFERENCE. We are involved in outreach projects in Highlands County, but also are regularly moving out in mission projects and trips around the world. We train students to become leader-servants in world missions. We want you to become a part of something bigger than you could ever have imagined. Come and visit with us. We think you will feel the difference!
We send mission teams like this one heading to Central America (upper left) from the Great Commission Bible Institute of Sebring (upper left). Another part of ministry is helping victims of tragedy, like the clean up after tornadoes destroyed a mobile home park in northern Florida. We sent a van load of workers daily until our work was done.