Kindred Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kindred

Kindred Lutheran Church where we are Gathered to Grow – Sent to Serve! MissionKindred Lutheran Church does not have a mission. Rather, God is on a mission—to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10)! The Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is a missional God. He is always active proclaiming forgiveness of sin and bringing salvation through Jesus Christ and him crucified. God reconciles the world to himself, transforms his people and ushers in his kingdom! And he invites the likes of us to follow him and be his hands and feet for the sake of the world. We witness to the coming of the Kingdom of God through the life, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ! PurposeKindred Lutheran Church exists to be disciples and make disciples who are bold, daring, adventurous followers of Jesus Christ! In Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus makes our purpose abundantly clear: Go. Make Disciples. Baptize. Teach. Obey. But being a disciple of Jesus is not a self-help project where we make ourselves better or more worthy or more like Christ. We don't earn salvation. Rather, we grow in grace—grow in seeing how totally dependent we are upon God's graciousness to us. The Holy Spirit guides us and transform us.VisionFollowing Jesus is a journey, a lifelong process of faith formation that we describe simply as: Gathered to Grow . . . Sent to Serve! This is our vision. And everything that we do at Kindred Lutheran is focused on this faith formation process. It is our way of helping one another become the disciple Jesus is calling us to be. Discipleship is what we do. Faith formation is what God does.