ABOUT US
Learn about our values, culture, beliefs and partnerships at Orchard LA
CORE VALUES
Here's What We Value as a Church
The core values of any organization reflects who it is and what it believes.
Joyful, Pastoral, and Biblical Worship
Our worship is warm, theologically rich, and shaped by deep pastoral care. Our aim is for all people to know God and learn to enjoy Him forever. We preach and sing in ways that help people encounter both the holiness and the kindness of God. Newcomers experience safety and welcome, while mature believers are drawn into reverence, repentance, and joy.
Christian Hospitality
We believe shared meals are not just social moments but sacred ones. Around real tables, with real food, we experience fellowship, discipleship, and the grace of God in tangible ways. At Orchard, hospitality is a form of worship and meals become a lived catechism that shapes our hearts and habits.
Known and Loved
We are committed to being a church where no one is invisible. People are prayed for by name, pastored with care, and carried through seasons of hardship and celebration together. This depth of relationship creates a community marked by trust, vulnerability, and real spiritual growth.
Formation Through Rhythms
Our spiritual life is shaped through consistent, relational rhythms of formation grounded in the Fruit of the Spirit Evaluation (FOSE). Rather than chasing quick results, we cultivate patient, long-term transformation through habits of reflection, prayer, and accountability. This creates a church culture that values faithfulness, self-examination, and growth in grace.
Reformed, Rooted, and Renewed
We are joyfully rooted in the historic Reformed faith, shaped by Scripture as our highest authority and guided by the rich wisdom of the confessions. Our theology is not abstract but lived—forming how we worship, love our neighbors, and steward our lives. For newcomers, this offers stability and clarity; for mature believers, it provides deep wells of doctrine, humility, and hope.
CHARACTERISTICS
Our Church Culture
Though every church shares the essentials of the Christian faith in common, each local church has distinct characteristics, a culture.
BELIEFS
Our Church's Statement of Faith
While the Bible is our only infallible rule of faith and practice, we are also committed—and accountable—to a specific statement of faith that represents a summary of the teaching of Holy Scripture.
The Scriptures
We believe the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God. Scripture alone is the final rule for what we believe and how we live.
The Triune God
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—equal in power and glory. He is holy, loving, just, wise, and sovereign over all creation.
Humanity and Sin
We believe that all people are created in the image of God and made for relationship with Him. Through the sin of Adam, humanity fell into a state of sin and spiritual death, unable to save ourselves and in need of God’s grace.
Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, fully God and fully man. He lived a sinless life, died on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice for sinners, rose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, and will return in glory.
Salvation by Grace
We believe salvation is a gift of God’s grace alone, received by faith alone, in Christ alone. By the work of the Holy Spirit, we are regenerated, justified, adopted, and made new—not by works, but by God’s mercy.
The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit gives new life, dwells in believers, and empowers the church for holy living, witness, and service. He produces spiritual fruit in God’s people and leads us in truth.
The Church
We believe the Church is the body of Christ, made up of all who trust in Him. The local church is called to worship God, make disciples, love one another, and serve the world. We practice the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as signs and seals of God’s covenant grace.
Worship and Life
We believe we are created to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. Our worship is to be Christ-centered, shaped by Scripture, and lived out through prayer, generosity, hospitality, justice, mercy, and love.
Last Things
We believe that Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly. The dead will be raised, final judgment will occur, and God will make all things new. Those who belong to Christ will live forever in the joy of His presence.
Our Confessional Identity
We joyfully stand in the historic Reformed tradition and affirm the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms as faithful summaries of biblical doctrine, always under the supreme authority of Holy Scripture.
