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SUNDAY MORNING
WORSHIP
9:30 a.m.

Bible School
11:15 a.m.


OFFICE HOURS
Mon - Fri
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

CHURCH
INFORMATION
Phone 813-759-9383
Fax 813-759-9515
E-Mail:
EPC@epcpc.org

Internet Address:
www.epcpc.org

CHURCH STAFF
Don Mason - Pastor
demason@epcpc.org

Scott Lingle
Director of Youth Ministries

Meredith Sharpe
Director of Music

Lee Pruyn
Music Accompanist

John & Roger
Audio / Visual
soundpc@epcpc.org

Libby Libretti
Administrative
Secretary
Leslie Doepke
Assistant
Secretary
llibretti@epcpc.org


Doris & Harley
Crosby
Bookkeeping

Chuck & Nell Cooper
Maintenance & Cleaning

Who We Are . . . The Evangelical Presbyterians
Mission and Vision Statements

Historically, we Presbyterians belong to a family of faith that can be described in two ways.  If you talk about how we govern ourselves, we are called "Presbyterian" which means "rule by Elders".  Our form of government is different from the episcopal form with a hierarchy, or the congregational form where government is by the congregation, for we have a representative form of church government.

If you talk about what we believe, we are called "Reformed".  This means that our belief grows out of the Christian faith as it was "reformed" during the Protestant Reformation, particularly through John Calvin and John Knox.


In 1996, here in Plant City, several hundred Christians and their children set out to establish a new Evangelical Presbyterian Church.  Although our name is sometimes a challenge to pronounce, each of the three words is full of meaning to us.

We are "evangelical".  We believe the Bible is God's true and authoritative word to us and to the world.  We believe sinners are saved from God's wrath by his grace alone as it is offered in the gospel of his Son Jesus Christ and confirmed by the work of the Holy Spirit.  We believe Jesus will return to this world for the judgment of all unsaved sinners and the glorification of all of God's precious children who have responded to his call to believe in Him.  Our fundamental beliefs are more clearly set forth in a document we call "The Essentials", in which we believe we must have unity.  The motto of our church also states in "nonessential" matters we are to have liberty and in all things we are to display charity.

We are also "Presbyterian".  We follow a tradition of churches that began as part of the protestant reformation of the 16th century.  Presbyterianism has its uniqueness in our form of church government and in our system of biblical beliefs.  We are governed under the principal that the Lord Jesus is the Head of our church.  Our congregation calls pastors and elects elders to have oversight over the spiritual and temporal concerns of our church.  We are related to about 200 other Evangelical Presbyterian Churches across the country who share our beliefs and our ministry.  We have missionaries who we send abroad to proclaim the gospel in Muslim and South American countries.  All of our beliefs are rooted in the Bible and set forth in a document called "The Westminster Confession of Faith" that has defined Presbyterian churches for over 350 years.

Finally, and significantly, we are a "church".  Membership in our congregation is an explicit statement that we are Christians who have a mission in this world.  Our church has a Mission Statement that we hope all of our members affirm in their lives.

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OUR MISSION

As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ and members of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Plant City, our mission is:

    To love and worship God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit;
    To teach and preach the truth of God's Word;
    To encourage and educate the followers of God's Word;
    To serve and love the world that needs God's Word.

Adopted by the session on October 27, 1996

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Our Vision is to be a Church that is…

¦ Prayerfully Empowered by intentionally making the discipline of individual and corporate prayer the foundation of every ministry and activity.

Ephesians 6:18 –– And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

¦ Worshipfully Balanced in seeking to glorify God in our services that involve appropriate appeals to our minds, emotions and wills.

Matthew 22:37 –– Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’”

¦ Biblically Mature through the preaching and teaching of God’s inspired, infallible and inerrant word that is the basis of our reformed theology and traditions.

II Timothy 3:16 –– All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness

¦ Spiritually Gifted by acknowledging and encouraging the Holy Spirit’s equipping of Christians with special talents to be used in their ministries in the church.

Romans 12:4-6a –– Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us.

¦ Broadly Evangelical in that we believe the gospel of salvation is appropriate to present and persuade in all church settings and even beyond to the community, nation and the world.

Acts 1:8 –– “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

¦ Financially Strong because its members are learning and practicing God’s financial principles in order to know Christ more intimately and to have freedom to serve Him.

I Chronicles 29:11-12 –– Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; You are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from You; You are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.

¦ Genuinely Relational through the principles of small group dynamics that build love, intimacy and accountability.

I Thessalonians 2:8 –– We loved you so much that we were delighted to share with you not only the gospel of God but our lives as well, because you had become so dear to us.

¦ Generationally Friendly in that we are committed to being a loving fellowship of people who can play as well as pray together regardless of chronological age or family background.

Psalm 133:1 –– How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!