Who We Are

We are connected to our roots and seeking to make faith real in our lives today

You want to explore faith. You want to grow in Christ. Simi Covenant offers you opportunities for both. We invite you to find out how you can learn, grow, & get connected.

Our Vibe

🙏 Grow in Faith. Dive into biblical teachings & discover practical ways to apply them to your life.

🌱 Know it’s OK to Be New or New-ish. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned Christian, you can find your place here.

🫠 Embrace Imperfect Community. Engaging worship services filled with heartfelt praise and meaningful messages, right alongside others who need God too.

🌍 Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing. We’re trying to foster a faith that transcends pop culture and politics by focusing on Christ & the gospel as our source of unity rather than division.

👶🏽👵🏽 Jump in — whatever stage you’re in. We help each other to grow in Christ in all stages of life. We embrace generational differences with open hearts. It’s refreshing in our world and richer for everyone.

Mission

We are committed to glorify God in all we do and to equip Christians to actively live out their faith.

We confess Jesus Christ and the faith of the apostles as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. The Holy Scripture (the Old and the New Testament) is the is the Word of God and the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct, and it is to be trusted. We affirm the historic confessions of the Christian Church, particularly the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, while emphasizing the sovereignty of the Word of God over all creedal interpretations.

Our essential beliefs are summed up in what we call the Covenant Affirmations.

Simi Covenant affirms:

• The centrality of the word of God. We believe the Bible is the only perfect rule for faith, doctrine, and conduct. The dynamic, transforming power of the word of God directs the church and the life of each Christian. This reliance on the Bible leads us to affirm both men and women as ordained ministers and at every level of leadership. It is the reason we pursue ethnic diversity in our church and is the inspiration for every act of compassion, mercy, and justice.

• The necessity of the new birth. The Apostle Paul wrote, “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). New birth in Christ means committing ourselves to him and receiving forgiveness, acceptance, and eternal life. It means being alive in Christ, and this life has the qualities of love and righteousness, joy and peace. New birth is only the beginning. Growing to maturity in Christ is a lifelong process for both individuals and communities of believers. God forms and transforms us—and it is through people transformed by Christ that God transforms the world.

• A commitment to the whole mission of the Church. The early Covenanters were known as “Mission Friends”—people of shared faith who came together to carry out God’s mission both far and near. Mission for them and for us includes evangelism, Christian formation, and ministries of compassion, mercy, and justice. We follow Christ’s two central calls. The Great Commission sends us out into all the world to make disciples. The Great Commandment calls us to love the Lord our God and our neighbors as ourselves.

• The church as a fellowship of believers. Membership in the Covenant Church is by confession of personal faith in Jesus Christ and is open to all believers. We observe baptism and Holy Communion as sacraments commanded by Jesus. We practice both infant and believer baptism. We believe in the priesthood of all believers—that is, we all share in the ministry of the church. We also affirm that God calls some men and women into professional, full-time ministry. The church is not an institution, organization, or building. It is a grace- filled fellowship of believers who participate in the life and mission of Jesus Christ. It is a family of equals: as the New Testament teaches that within Christian community there is to be neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male or female, but all are one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28)

• A conscious dependence on the Holy Spirit. The Covenant Church affirms
  the Trinitarian understanding of one God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The New Testament tells us that the Holy Spirit works both within individuals and among them. We believe it is the Holy Spirit who instills in our hearts a desire to turn to Christ, and who assures us that Christ dwells within us. It is the Holy Spirit who enables our obedience to Christ and conforms us
  to his image, and it is the Spirit in us that enables us to continue Christ’s mission in the world. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to us as individuals and binds us together as Christ’s body.

• The reality of freedom in Christ. The Apostle Paul wrote, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1). This freedom is a gift of God in Christ, and it manifests itself in a right relationship with God and others. It is not a private gift to be used selfishly, but is given to serve the community and the world. For Paul, this freedom means that we are set free from the power of those things that on their own tend to divide. United in Christ, we offer freedom to one another to differ on issues of belief or practice where the biblical and historical record seems to allow for a variety of interpretations of the will and purposes of God. We in the Covenant Church seek to focus on what unites us as followers of Christ, rather than on what divides us.

Here is more information on the Covenant Affirmations.

Simi Covenant is a member of the Evangelical Covenant Church denomination.   

The Evangelical Covenant Church (covchurch.org) is a rapidly growing multiethnic denomination in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the ECC values the Bible as the word of God, the gift of God’s grace and ever-deepening spiritual life that comes through a faith with Jesus Christ, the importance of extending God’s love and compassion to a hurting world, and the strength that comes from unity within diversity.