Mission:

We are a community church committed to loving Jesus, one another, and Salinas with abandon. 

About Us:

Salinas Valley Community Church has been making - a great commitment to the Great Commission since 1984. As followers of Christ we are engaged in the challenging and rewarding enterprise of making Christ known. In order to do our part in making God's amazing grace accessible to those who have little or no access to the gospel, we are in partnership with a number of missionaries and agencies around the world.

Beliefs:

• God is absolutely powerful, entirely righteous, totally loving  and completely accessible.
• There is one God and he has always existed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• God created everything there is. People were made to live in loving relationships with God and each other.
• The Bible perfectly reveals how you can know God and live with him and other people as he intended.
• It is in every person’s nature to turn away from God. We all sin by doing things we shouldn’t and not doing things we should. You can’t do enough good works to earn a relationship with God.
• Jesus is the Son of God who took on a human body like ours. He showed us what a perfect human life looks like. Jesus died to take God’s punishment for our sins. He came back to life, returned to heaven, and is available to change our lives today. One day he will return to rule and reign over a new heaven and new earth.
• You begin a relationship with God when you put your trust in Jesus and ask him to be the one who forgives your sins and leads your life.
• The Holy Spirit makes people aware of their need for Jesus Christ. He also lives in every Christian from the moment they trust Jesus. He provides followers of Christ with power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, guidance in doing what is right, and gifts to accomplish ministry.
• There is a final judgment coming after this life. Those who have trusted in Jesus to forgive their sins and lead their lives will be with him eternally, and those who do not will be separated from God forever.
• The church is God’s spiritual family. While global in nature, God’s people gather together in local churches like ours to worship God, love one another, and represent Jesus Christ and his kingdom to a needy and broken world.
• We acknowledge that there is diversity among Christians in some nonessential areas of belief. We do not insist on uniformity in these areas, but rather encourage people to search the Scriptures, and to respect one another’s differences without a quarrelsome, proud, or divisive spirit, and to return continually to the Great Commandment—to love God and others.