CORE VALUES

• Loving God and His Word: Through Daily Bread devotions, personal Bible study, one–to–one and group Bible study and teaching, Sunday worship with expository preaching, Bible reflection writing and sharing in fellowship meetings we put great emphasis on loving God and His Word that He has given.

• Prayer: We believe that God’s people should be a people of prayer. We strive to carry this out in personal, small group, united, family settings.

• Discipleship: Through learning to deny oneself, take up one’s own cross and follow Jesus, growing in his image in humility, obedience, servantship, compassion, and maturing in faith, hope and love we aim to grow as Jesus’ disciples. 

• Church Community: By sharing life together, loving one another and valuing each person through serving, caring, praying, Bible teaching, mentoring, worshiping together and maturing in the image of Christ we aim to build up a loving Christian community in accordance with the Scriptures

• World Mission: We remain committed to world missions by learning God’s vision for the whole world and participating in it through outreach, prayer, sending short term missionaries as well as long term self–supporting lay missionaries and caring for them, and recognizing the priesthood of all believers (1 Peter 2:9).

• Christ and His Kingdom: We share Christ’s vision of calling all peoples, races and tribes into his kingdom. Christ is our king and all Christians, as part of his body, are our brothers and sisters.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

• We believe that there is one God in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

• We believe that God created the heavens and the earth and all other things in the universe: that He is the Sovereign Ruler of all things; that the Sovereign God reveals Himself; we believe in his redemptive work and in his final judgment.

• We believe that the Bible is inspired by God; that it is the truth; that it is the final authority in faith and practice.

• We believe that since the fall of Adam, all people have been under the bondage and power of sin and are deserving of the judgment and wrath of God.

• We believe that Jesus Christ, who is God and man, through his atoning, sacrificial death on the cross for our sins and his resurrection, is the only way of salvation; he alone saves us from sin and judgment and purifies us from the contamination of the world caused by sin.

• We believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father.

• We believe that being born again is by the work of the Holy Spirit, and that it is necessary if one is to enter the kingdom of God. We believe that God sent his Holy Spirit to empower his church to witness to Jesus to the ends of the earth.

• We believe that we are made righteous by grace alone, through faith alone.

• We believe that the Holy Spirit lives and works in the heart of every believer.

• We believe that the church is the body of Christ and that all Christians are members of it.

• We believe that Jesus will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

BEGINNING OF OUR CHAPTER

In 1975, three self supporting missionary couples came to America with the heart to spread the gospel in Washington DC. Originally serving the George Washington University, the church decided to move to College Park, MD and since then has grown into a 150-member church mainly serving the University of Maryland College Park campus. Located nearby the school, our church's goal is to teach and encourage college students through one-to-one Bible Studies, group meetings, and Sunday Worship Services. In the past years, Washington UBF has raised many Bible teachers and have sent out many short-term and long-term missionaries.