Church
11715 North Creek Pkwy S.,
Suite 110
Bothell, WA 98021
425-402-4445

Weekly Schedule
Sunday morning
10:00 am
Sunday School is available for children. Grades 7-12 meet at 9 am Sunday & 7-8:30 pm on Wednesday.

Office Hours
Tuesday - Friday
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
 ncc@northwest.org

 

Northwest Community Church Vision and Mission

Mission * Vision * Style * Distinctives * Objectives * Values * Extended Vision

Mission
To humbly receive God’s complete love in Jesus; to joyfully and freely give that love to all who will receive it, with the hope that each one will come into a full and complete relationship with God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Vision
We are on a journey of discovery and faith with Jesus. He finds us hungry, broken and disillusioned. To our amazement He brings us home to His Father who makes us His lavishly loved children. He will lead us into our neighborhoods, communities and the world so all who wish may come home to the Father. In His “Amazing Grace,” we experience healing and blessing.

Style
 The church was birthed in 1979 as an independent, Spirit-filled, evangelical fellowship after the style of Calvary Chapel and The Vineyard.

Worship is contemporary with an intimate flowing musical style. Teaching is explaining in everyday language the Bible and its application to our lives.Fellowship is emphasized and expressed in a large network of small groups. The atmosphere of Northwest Community Church is relaxed and casual with an expressed attitude of love and acceptance. This style has been described as church in the family room because of its informality and warmth. It has also been called “naturally supernatural” because of the low-key but involved response to the powerful presence of God. [top]

Distinctives
 Every church has their own characteristics that set them apart and make them unique. These characteristics, or distinctives, make up who we are:

  1. We are a childlike people who delight in the many expressions of relationship with God.

  2. We provide a safe place for healing and restoration characterized by love, acceptance and forgiveness.

  3. We are a creative and innovative people characterized by risk taking and fun.

  4. We are a real and authentic people characterized by honesty and simplicity.

  5. We are a caring and involved people—we focus our time, energy and money towards the church, our community and the world.

  6. We are a generous people, sowing joyfully God’s abundant gifts of grace.

  7. We are a nurturing people who invest ourselves freely in the growth of others. [top]

Objectives - How We Will Achieve Our Mission

  1. We are growing into wholeness, and becoming a diverse, inclusive and generous family as we receive God’s love. Jesus came to show us what God is like. He showed us that God is a deeply caring and passionate Father who desires a warm and close parent/child relationship with us.

    1. With our customs, beliefs, language and art, we express our diversity as God’s beloved family.

    2. As the family of God we are intentional about including everyone in church life. We release each generation to do the work of the Kingdom--bless, encourage and exhort cross-generationally. We want to reach out to people of all generations.

    3. We see the church as God’s family, His household. We recognize that each individual brings something to the body as a whole; each has something to offer. We embrace the tension inherent in inter-generational families.

  2. We are building a home with a huge “Welcome” sign inviting all the lost, prodigals, or strays who want to come home and find healing and restoration.

    1. Giving and serving are free choices of love offered to God and others. We allow others to be who they are, as they are, with no expectations and still consider them valued church members.

    2. The glorious, free, rich and lavish grace of God given to us in the person of Jesus, the Son of God, changes how we live. In grace we learn to live not in fear, but in true freedom. To be free is to hold others and things of life open–handed. Henry Nouwen expresses it with this statement: “Generosity creates the family it believes in.

    3. Contentment in Christ allows people to be healed and gives them freedom to express genuine love in their choices. We are free from using and manipulating people for our own end

We experience community through various small groups. The resources of the church need to be organized and directed if we are to fulfill our God-given call. Our people are our chief resource. a.   To provide for community, relationship and function, we will build the church using small groups. This will be the foundation for staff, board, ministry, training, outreach and fellowship functions. b.   We all need to be in relationships with others where we know each other, and are known by others. Healing, growth and fulfillment come out of relationships. The structure of the church will support and provide for relationship through small groups.

 

4. We enjoy the rich and diverse aspects of relationship with God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. a.   God has revealed Himself as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Each person of the Trinity speaks to us of the potential for a powerful and intimate relationship with the living and personal God. b.   Because we bear a likeness to our Maker, relationship is central to the meaning and fulfillment of our lives. God seeks us and, through Jesus, removes the barriers that block us from enjoying intimacy with Him.

5. We are on an adventure of discovering who God is, who we are and what life is about.
a.   We must teach, model and equip in: 1. Knowing who God is, what He has done and what He is doing. 2. Knowing who we are, what we are for, and what we should do. 3. Knowing what life is about.

Knowing, and applying these things will enable us to fulfill God’s plans and purposes for us.

6. We are creatively meeting needs by building bridges to our community, the church at large and the world.

We will build bridges and provide training to send everyone who wants to go, and receiving everyone who comes our way.

As the culture changes so must the church if it intends to effectively influence the culture. We are not afraid of a secular, naturalistic, Godless culture nor do we feel the need to build walls to protect ourselves from it.

We believe we are to be light, salt, yeast and seed in the world, which means we need to fully engage our culture at every opening available to us. This will require us to be well founded in our convictions but very flexible in our applications.

7. We are growing-up together as we share the gifts and blessings we’ve received from God.

  1. We are told that we will reap what we sow. We are thankful for the gifts of good seed given to us by God that we might sow well. These gifts freely given to others are like seed in rich soil, producing a bountiful crop in our lives and the lives of others.

  2. God has told us He will bless us and make us a blessing to others. He has blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ and out of those blessings we have become a blessing to each other.

  3. Through the Holy Spirit we receive “grace gifts” which bring life to others when we freely give them. [top]

Values
Since this is God’s House there are certain ways of going about family life that are important, we call these our values.1.   We value and rest in the all–sufficient person and work of Jesus Christ for our redemption, regeneration, adoption, transformation, and provision.  

• John 3:1-21; 10:1-18   • Colossians 1:9-23; 2:9-15
• Romans 3:21-26; 4:25–5:21; 8:1-4; 8:31-39   • Titus 3:3-8
• 1 Corinthians 1:26-31   • Hebrews 10:1-25
• 2 Corinthians 3:17-18; 5:16-21  • 1 John 4:7-21
• Ephesians 1:3-14  

2.   We value knowing God as “Abba” Father through the work of Jesus Christ and the gift of the Holy Spirit and knowing we are His beloved children.  

• Matthew 7:9-12; 11:25-30; 23:8-12  • 2 Corinthians 6:14-18
• Luke 10:21-22  • Galatians 4:1-7
• John 1:10-13; 14; 16:25-28 • 1 John 1:1-4; 3:1-2
• Romans 8:12-17 • Jude 1:1-2

3.   We value the blessing of the Holy Spirit and all the gifts He brings to our lives.

• John 14:15-21; 14:25-27; 15:26-27; 16:5-11; 16:12-15
• Acts 1:8; 2 • Ephesians 5:15-20; 3:14-21
• Romans 8  • 1 Peter 4:7-11
• 1 Corinthians 12-14 

4.   We value The Bible, as our source for truth, doctrine, practices and lifestyle. We read, study, pray and meditate on the Word so me might know God better, grow into His likeness and become equipped for life.

• Exodus 24:3-8  • Col. 3:16
• Matt 4:4, 13:18-23 • 2 Tim 2:15, 4:2
• Luke 11:27-28  • Heb 4:12
• Acts 2:42 • Jas 1:22-25
• Eph 6:17

       5.   We value the glorious, free, rich and lavish grace and mercy we have and are receiving in Jesus Christ. We see these as a way of life in enjoying and expressing God’s love in a lifestyle of worship.  

• John 1:1-18  • Ephesians 1:3-10; 2:1-10; 4:7
• Acts 20:32   • 2 Timothy 1:1-12; 2:1
• Romans 3:23-24; 5:15-21; 12:3-12 • Hebrews 4:14-16; 12:15
• 2 Corinthians 9:6-15; 12:7-10 • 1 Peter 5:5-14

  6.   We value a safe place characterized by forgiveness, acceptance and blessing as means of extending God’s grace and mercy to each other.  

• Matthew 5:7; 6:9-15; 9:12-13; 18:21-35  • Ephesians 4:1-6; 4:32–5:2
• Mark 11:22-25 • Colossians 3:12-14
• Luke 6:36-38; 18:9-14 • James 2:12-13; 3:17; 5:10-11
• John 13:34 • 1 Peter 2:9-10
• Romans 14:1-21; 15:5-7 • 1 John 1:8-10  

7.   We value turning the hearts of the fathers to their children and the children to their fathers, the reconciling of the generations.  

• Malachi 4:6  • Ephesians 6:1-4
• Matthew 15:3-9 • Colossians 3:20-21
• 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

8.   We value doing whatever we can to welcome home the prodigals and older sons and to find the strays and the lost by being, doing and speaking “the Good News” of God’s great love in Jesus Christ in acts and words of mercy and grace.

• Ezekiel 34:1-6 • John 10:1-18
• Matt 4:18-20; 9:35-38; 28:18-20  • 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
• Luke 15

9.   We value sending with blessing those who are being called out.  

• 1 Samuel 3:1-10; 16:1-13  • John 13:17-26; 20:21-23
• Isaiah 6:1-8  • Acts 13:1-3; 15:30-35
• Matthew 9:35-38; 10:5-42  • Romans 10:14-15
• Mark 6:6-13 • Philippians 2:19-23  

10.  We value the graces of serving and giving in the church, not as obligations or duty, but as gifts of love, which express our gratitude to God and further His work.  

• Matthew 20:24-28  • 2 Corinthians 8:1-12; 9:6-15
• John 13:1-17 • Galatians 5:13-15
• Romans 7:6  • 1 Peter 4:7-11 

11.  We value the whole Church of Jesus Christ and we work to the end that it will be one, blessed and prosperous.  

• John 17:6-11; 20-23 • Ephesians 2:11-22; 4:1-7
• 1 Corinthians 10:14-17; 12:12-31 • Colossians 3:15  [top]

Expanded Vision --  Lee’s Dream
My dream is of our Father in heaven laughing and celebrating with tears of joy because His children have come home.  

  • I dream of those who have left the church because of personal failure, betrayal, hypocrisy, performance, boredom or lack of relevancy, and those who are lost but are seeking home, hearing the call of a broken-hearted Father saying “come home to Me and My House.”  

  • I see them coming, drawn by the Spirit, with little hope and many fears. To their great surprise and delight, they find a waiting and compassionate Father eager to extend love, acceptance and forgiveness.

  • I see Jesus leading the family in restoring them to a childlike relationship of closeness and warmth with God as “ABBA” Father and to their inheritance and to their place in His household.

  • Healed of their brokenness, they become like their Heavenly Father, lavishly giving His “Amazing Grace” in its many forms to all who will receive, joyfully helping those who would come home to the Father. [top]