Our Leaders
Tim Avery is our teaching pastor.
He met the love of his life, Sheila in college. They
have been married for 22 years and
have three awesome teens as well as
a sorry excuse for a dog named Molly. Tim came to Christ
Community Church in 2004 as a bi-vocational pastor. During the week
Tim works as an IT manager. He enjoys kayaking, photography
and reading. If you hear something crashing through the woods
it might be him in his Jeep Wrangler.
Scott Avedisian is
our Youth Leader. He is married to his lovely wife Katey
They have been married for 4 years and now live in Goffstown NH with
their two labradoodles, Rico and Coda. Scott
spent a year in Iraq serving in the
Air Force reserves as security police
Our
Core Values We cherish three core
values at Christ Community.
The first core value
is to grow in our love for Jesus Christ.
We believe that this is the most important value anyone can
hold. This is the
meaning of life. It is
our reason to exist. Our second core value
is that we would grow in our love for one another.
Whether it is our friends, family, neighbors or even our
enemies Christ has called us to love one another.
We believe that all of us have plenty of room for growth in
this area. A final core value is
to share our faith with others.
Adherence to the first two core values demands this one also.
We do not believe in “forcing” our faith or values on others
but we do believe that these values are so good they are worth
sharing with others we care about.
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Our Core beliefs We believe in the
absolute authority of the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, in all matters
of faith and practice.
The central purpose of God’s Word is to reveal to mankind God’s will
of bringing all mankind into restored fellowship with Himself.
We believe there is
only one living and true God comprising the eternal Godhead.
In this Godhead eternally exists three coequal persons – the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit – and these three are One.
We believe that Jesus
Christ was born into this world a sinless man, fully human and fully
divine, who retained full perfection even though he was tempted like
every man. He was
crucified, died, and was buried to provide a substitute for the sin
debt every human owes.
He was resurrected bodily and spiritually from death and ascended to
heaven, and He will return from there to judge the living and the
dead.
We believe salvation
is provided through faith in Jesus Christ alone, and is wholly a
work of God’s free grace, not the result, in any way, of man’s
efforts to gain God’s favor through works or goodness.
This salvation is appropriated through repentance and faith
on the part of each individual and is the only means of gaining
glory in heaven. Apart
from salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, each person is
destined to eternal separation from God in hell.
We believe that the
Holy Spirit indwells every believer from the moment of salvation,
guiding the believer into truth, empowering the believer to live in
obedience to the Father and the Son, convicting believers and
nonbelievers of sin, and otherwise manifesting Himself in the life
of the believer, in the Church, and in the world in such ways as He
sees fit.
Baptism
As a church we follow the New Testament model of water
baptism as a testimony of one’s faith in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ both commanded it to his followers and practiced
it himself. The purpose of baptism is for a Christian to give
testimony of their faith.
Since the early days of the Christian church It has also been
recognized as a means of identifying oneself with the church.
The act of baptism by immersion offers rich symbolism of the
burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ when He offered himself as a
sacrifice for our sins.
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