Hope in the Valley
What We're All About
Our Core Values
Worship
To encourage all people who attend our church meetings to worship in their daily lives and experience God's manifest glory as we unite in corporate fellowship.
Discipleship
That every person whom God entrusts to our congregation will have an active maturing relationship with Christ through daily prayer, scripture reading, and bible study, as well as other scriptural disciplines.
Ministry
For each member of HVBC to fulfill their God given purpose by implementing their spiritual gifts in a ministry supported by our local church family and that each member will develop close friendships within this body for the purpose of support and accountability.
Evangelism
To deliver the gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in Hemet, San Jacinto, and the surrounding communities in a manner with which they can understand and respond to it.
Missions
That our influence will go beyond our community, as we are involved in our world through praying, financial support, and the sending of missionaries.
What We Believe
God
There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
God the Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purpose of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. ..He exalts Christ, He convicts men of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all scripture is totally true and trustworthy
The Church
The church is the spiritual body of which Christ is the head. There is a two-fold aspect of the church, the universal and the local. Also the ordinances of the local church are two in number: Baptism (the immersion of the believer in water following salvation) and the Lord’s Supper (the memorial of the atoning death of Christ until He comes).
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer.
People
The human beings is the special creation of God, in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. …By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. …The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created humans in His own image, and that Christ died for all people, therefore every person of every race possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
The Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood or adoption.
Marriage
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. …The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the householf and nurturing the next generation. …Children from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s patter for marriage.