When Third Christian Church planted a Sunday School in Richmond’s Fairmount neighborhood in 1902, no one dreamed where Fairmount Christian Church would be today. In its century of existence, Fairmount moved from Fairmount Avenue to Mechanicsville Turnpike to Creighton Road. In each of those locales, God has been mightily at work through the Fairmount family. Innumerable lives have been changed. Millions of dollars have gone into mission work. Countless worship services have been held. Men and women have entered the ministry. Area ministries have been bolstered. Thousands of children, teens, and adults have been experienced the love of Christ and the truths of the Bible. What started with only a handful of families now has grown into a church family with 1,000 people in worship each week. Always with God in front – leading us forward – leading us onward.
Through the prayers of our church’s leaders and our entire congregation, it is clear that God is leading us forward again. As a congregation that is committed to growth, it is time to expand our church’s ministries and facilities to better meet the needs of our community. For some time now, the Fairmount Forward Team has presented to our church family a multi-phase expansion project that will, eventually, fill our current property to capacity with twice as many Sunday morning worshippers.
God is the creator of all things visible and invisible. He is the Father Almighty who loves each one of us. (Genesis 1:1; John 4:24)
Jesus Christ is the only-begotten, virgin-born Son of God who died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures. He ascended into Heaven and will return to earth to judge both the living and the dead. (John 1:14; John 3:16; Luke 1:26-38; 1 Corinthians 15:3-8)
The Holy Spirit is an active and operating part of the Trinity who dwells in every Christian. (John 16:5-16; 2 Timothy 1:14) Salvation (the free gift of God) comes by Grace through the blood of Christ and the pattern to follow to receive that Grace is through faith in Christ, repentance of personal sin, confessing that Jesus is Lord and by being immersed in Christian baptism. (Matthew 26:28; Ephesians 2:8; Luke 24:45-47; Acts 2:38; Romans 6:1-7; 1 Peter 3:21; 2 Peter 3:9)
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, given to “make you wise for salvation”. It is infallible in the original documents and the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. It gives the perfect pattern of Christ’s Church and every effort should be made to restore it. (Isaiah 40:8; Hebrews 4:12, 13; 2 Timothy 3:16)
Contrite, repentant believers observed the Lord’s Supper in remembrance of Christ’s sacrifice for our sins. The pattern of the early Christians was to observe this Supper on the first day of the week. (Matthew 26:26-29; 1 Corinthians 11:23-29; Acts 20:7)
Although the date or time of the Second Coming of the Lord to gather His Church and to judge the world is unknown, it is certain. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18; Titus 2:11-13; John 14:1-6; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 22:20)
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