About Mill Park Baptist Church

Our Purpose Statement...

Mill Park Baptist Church exists to know, love and serve God

Our Core Values...

Our values express what we're trying to do and be, and in our church's daily life they are very much alive, active, and meaningful.

We value...

BIBLICAL TRUTH: we place the highest value on God's word (the Bible) and its central message of the good news of Jesus Christ, and we want to be consumed with a desire to know and live it, whatever the cost to us.

CELEBRATION: because of God's great love for us and the way he designed us, we are joyful, have fun, laugh, and celebrate together.

COMMUNITY: we are establishing and building a Biblically functioning community, which sees incredible love and care for each other, and welcomes others as if they were old friends.

DISCIPLESHIP: we take seriously Jesus' command to make disciples- to see people growing to be more and more like Jesus in every part of their lives.

FAMILY: we support and affirm the God-given value of marriage and family relationships, and we seek to be a family connection for all those who are part of our church.

INTEGRITY: we seek honesty and the highest ethical and moral standards in our own lives and in our church as a whole, especially modeled and demonstrated in our leadership.

MISSION: we are determined to be increasingly focused on people around us and in all the world who do not yet know Jesus, and to find appropriate, relevant, and innovative ways to communicate the good news to them.

PARTICIPATION: we form a team of which everyone in our church is a part, where every contribution counts and has an equally high value.

PRAYER: we believe that prayer is vital, a powerful foundation of our relationship with God, and we want to be a people radically devoted to prayer - individually, in groups, and corporately.

WORSHIP: we gladly accept that life is to be lived with God in its centre, and will strive to ensure our daily lives are true expressions of uninhibited worship to God.

Who are we?...

Our vision...

• We really want to be all for God, so that all that we do and are, and each one of us, is knowing, loving and serving God more meaningfully. One key way this will be exhibited is in our growth towards being a radically prayerful church.
   
  
• We decisively aim to become more of a fresh and vital community of people, meaningfully connected with others in solid, caring and open relationships, always looking for ways and means to know, love and serve the people with whom we come in contact.
   
• We acknowledge that our church does not exist 'for us', but that it is our community, where we meet to be energised by God together and released into our separate worlds to influence them with the love of Jesus - and we want this recognition to infect all that we are and do.
   
• We want to be a place where the Holy Spirit is given no limitations, where he is free to move in and change us in whatever way he desires and where his gifts are allowed to operate in all freedom.
   
• We already have a passion for missions, but we want to see it grow all the more; so that our giving to missions is always increasing at an astounding rate, we send out missionaries, we constantly provide short term cross cultural mission exposure opportunities for our people, and we live to know that the good news of Jesus is being taken into all the world.

            Our Logo...

Designed by Natashia Curtain

Leaves: symbolic of:

• Braches of the body of Christ. (John 15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.")
• The Holy Trinity.
• Family of believers in worship, lifting hands to the Lord.
• Shapes are also suggestive of flame of the Holy Spirit.

Colours:

• Green for growth, health and vigour. Suggested by the word 'park' in the name.
• Grey (75% of black): softer and less formal then black.

Font:

• Light san serif, which highlights simplicity, and retains a modern feel.