About Us

About Us
In all we do as a church Mt. Olive strives to “Love God and Love Others”… In working to do so, we have developed some common principles by which we are guided in every ministry area:

Authentic Community
In each ministry area we attempt to provide true, authentic relationships that include hospitality, a sense of belonging for all, a supportive and loving environment, and relationships that honor God through trust, honesty, acceptance, and healthy conflict resolution. We believe this principle is modeled through Christ in His relationships and through the church in the New Testament.

Continual Spiritual Growth
We believe that the Christian faith is a personal journey that we all begin when we accept the gift of Christ’s salvation and does not end until we stand before Him in heaven. God will continue to mold and make us into a new being as we seek Him and His word. We believe maturing in our faith is a mandate given to us in Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,” Therefore we at Mt. Olive encourage and equip each other to continue on to maturity in Christ.

Passionate Worship
We believe worshipping God is more than attending “worship” on Sunday mornings. We believe passionate worship of God is displayed through an open and intimate relationship with God and through a life where all things are centered on God.

Everyone a Minister
We believe in the “Priesthood of Believers” as described in John 12:38-40. We believe that all followers of Christ are to be His hands and feet in this world, and that God has prepared each person for the ministry to which God is calling them through spiritual gifts. (I Corinthians 12) Therefore we endeavor to equip the saints for ministry inside and outside the church walls.

Others Focused
Christ modeled and commanded that we love others. It is easy to love those who we know and who love us, but Christ did more and calls us to do more too. Christ loved us even before we loved Him….before we were His “friends” , and at Mt. Olive believers are encouraged to model this kind of depth of love to those in our church and in our community. Christ states in John 15:12 “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” At Mt. Olive we are challenged “to lay down our own lives”….our own preferences, ideas, agendas and sometimes our own busy schedules in order to love others as Christ loves us.