Children's Ministry.
        Caring, trained staff lead ministries to children that include Christian Life Club (CLC) for children ages 4-10 Wednesday evenings;  Sunday school classes; Children’s Church; & summertime Vacation Bible School.

Open Acceptance.
        The Good News is that Jesus accepts us just as we are, and loves us unconditionally!  We try hard to do the same at FMCC.  We also understand that although God loves us enough to accept us the way we are – He also loves us too much to leave us that way!  J      

       We are trying to be responsive to God and allow Him to make us into the people God desires us to be.

Ministry to our community.
        Our H.O.P.E. Ministry engages us in hands-on care for people in our ministry area.  The FMCC family participates in the Springfield Township Community Council of Churches (STCCC) food bank ministry.  Our pastor meets regularly with the STCCC pastors.  H.O.P.E. Ministry touches people’s lives through counseling, meals for the sick, visitation, and financial assistance.

       We’ve had teams in the RELAY FOR LIFE for several years.  We annually have people participate in the CROP Walk, the Care-Net Pregnancy Center’s Walk for Life, and other community events and fund-raisers.

Ministry based on gifts and passion.
        We believe God has made each of us with specific gifts, interests, personalities, and passions.  At FMCC, we try to assist people in discovering their areas of giftedness.  Then we encourage our people to work in those areas to make the love of God known!  More-and-more, we’re determined to equip our people to be prepared to serve God in their homes, neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, and throughout the course of their daily activities. 

       We are trying to make a transition:

FROM understanding that ministry takes place in the church at specific times – mostly done by our pastor,

TO understanding that ministry is done 24/7 by our people – wherever God has them deployed!

Unity.
       Unity is the root of community!  FMCC is a loving community!  Upon your first visit to our activities, you will be warmly greeted and accepted.  Our people are “works in progress”;  no perfect people here!  God is not finished with us yet!  J 

       We even keep our requirements for membership simple.  We ask primarily two questions based on the teachings of Jesus: 

1.      Do you love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength?

2.      Are you seeking to love your neighbor as yourself?

 Nurture.
       Nurture is not a commonly used word today.  Essentially it means support focused on growth!  At FMCC we are trying to be a vibrant, growing, fruitful, effective body of believers.  Hopefully, if you visited us now and then again a year from now, you’d be able to see a difference!  We pray that God will help us to be patient in working with all of His children to grow them toward maturity! 

       Our leaders are regularly trained to discern the abilities of our people;  then to come alongside them to encourage growth, risk-taking, and courage in living boldly for Christ!

Investment in people, not programs.
       This is easy to say, but hard to do!  But we hold our feet to the fire to keep this focus!  We don’t view ourselves as an institution.  Rather, we view ourselves as a movement!  Although we occasionally revert to former ways of thinking, we genuinely work hard to remind ourselves that God is PRIMARILY concerned about people (and there is no close second)!  Therefore as His body of believers, we should be primarily concerned about people too! 

       We have many emerging leaders at FMCC.  We know that to get to our future, we will need leaders from every generation who can work together to build God’s Kingdom!  We believe that everything rises or falls based on leadership!  We make the training and equipping of our leaders a priority!

Team ministry. 
       More and more, we’re doing our work and ministry through teams!  We figure that if Jesus had a team of twelve, then that was probably a model that we should follow!   Teams encourage friendship and the strengthening of relationships!  Teams get more done and typically do it better.  Teams pool the resources, creativity, and gifts of a group of people – as opposed to creating stars or heroes that do it all!  We’re committed to building teams that will change our community!

Youth Ministry.
        Our teens meet Sundays and Wednesdays.  They enjoy fun times, social activities, and learning times together.  Our youth are constantly challenged to know, live for, and share Jesus Christ as world-changers for their generation. 

     They take trips to Teen Mania's annual "Acquire the Fire!" events where they are challenged to go into the world on short-term missions trips to win people across cultural barriers to Jesus Christ.

During the summer of 2006, about a dozen went to Mexico for two weeks to experience ministry in another culture.