How to Join
We hope you will join our fellowship.
If you would like to join College Park, you may approach the pastor or worship leader and express your desire to join us. During the traditional service held at 11:00 on Sundays, there is usually an invitation from the pastor or worship leader just before the last hymn.
The condition for membership is that you accept Jesus Christ as your savior. We believe that church membership should be restricted to believers.
Salvation: How to Accept Christ
Here is how you can receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior:
- Admit your need for a Savior. In other words, admit that you are a sinner, which means that you have fallen short of God’s standard.
- Be willing to turn from your sins (repentance).
- Believe that Jesus Christ, the holy son of God, died for you on the cross and rose from the grave.
- Through prayer, invite Jesus Christ to come in and control your life through the power of the Holy Spirit. (Receive Him as Lord and Savior).
Baptism
Baptism is an ordinance we observe upon joining our church. Through baptism we declare outwardly an inner transformation that has already occurred by our accepting Christ. If you previously underwent believer’s baptism — baptism following your accepting Jesus as savior — then we do not ask that you be baptized again at College Park. If you have not been baptized as a believer, then we will work with you to schedule a baptism at a worship service in the near future. Usually several new members will be baptized at the same service.
You may wish to contact our pastor, Rev. Ramon Smith, with any questions you have about the process of joining the church or the meaning of baptism.
Further engagement
See
- our You, too page
- our Stewardship and Giving page