Mission

The mission of this church shall be to provide a place for people to gather as a family and a community for fellowship, prayer, celebration, worship and service to the Lord. Through our words and deeds we will endeavor to share the teachings of Jesus Christ throughout the world. We will reach out to the sick, the poor and the needy of our community and the world with our spiritual and material resources.

The session of North Warren Presbyterian Church of North Warren, PA meeting this 16th day of October, 2001 joins faithful believers throughout the church in endorsing the Confessing Church Movement as a movement toward the reclaiming of the Presbyterian Church (USA)s essential unity in Jesus Christ and reaffirmation of the following essential tenets of the Reformed faith:

1. That "God has put all things under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and made Christ 'Head of the Church,' which is his body" (G-1.0100); that "the church is called to tell the Good News of salvation by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ as the only Savior and Lord" (G-3.0300) and that "there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12).

2. That "the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are, by the Holy Spirit, the unique and authoritative witness to Jesus Christ in the Church universal (C14.0405b2); and that "the authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, depends not upon the testimony of any person or church, but wholly upon God, the author thereof, and therefore is to be received, because it is the Word of God." (The Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter I)

3. That "truth is in order to goodness; and the great touchstone of truth is its tendency to promote holiness, according to our Saviors rule 'by their fruits you shall know them. (G-1.0304); that this holiness includes the honoring of marriage between a man and a woman as the only relationship within which sexual activity is appropriate (The Heidelberg Catechism Q. 108 & 109, The Second Helvetic confession chapter XXIX.) And that "anarchy in sexual relationships is a symptom of mans alienation from God, his neighbor and himself." (The Confession of 1967 part II, section A, Reconciliation in Society, 4d)

We urge the General Assembly to instruct the General Assembly Council to affirm that these confessions are followed faithfully in all programs and policies of the Presbyterian Church (USA).