Welcome!

Connecting Point is a local church that serves the tricities region (Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody) of the Vancouver lower mainland. We gather on Sundays at 10:30 am at Victoria Drive Hall, 3435 Victoria Drive, Coquitlam, BC.

We participate in fulfilling the great commission (Matthew 28:18-20) by CONNECTING with God, with one another and with our community; by GROWING as followers of Jesus through understanding and obeying the Scriptures; and by SERVING those within our sphere of influence.

"And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation."

— 2 Corinthians 5:18

About us

Why "Connecting Point"? The church is the people, not a building. It is those who profess Christ as their Saviour. Church is a process, not an event. It is people coming to know Christ, growing in their faith, and fulfilling their unique Kingdom purpose. We describe this process as "connect, grow, serve". The name reflects this process. Connecting Point is not just the name of our church; it is a description of each person in the church. The name helps all of us to understand and remember that we don't go to church...we are the church. You are the connecting point!

Liturgy

Prayer

Each Sunday we take time to pray together as a congregation. We use a mix of psalms and prayers from the scriptures and a variety of orthodox confessions and traditions, as well as more informal prayer. This happens from the front as well as in our "table talks". (1 Timothy 2:1-3)

Worship

We worship: 1) to affirm that God is as he is presented in the Old and New Testaments, the only one worthy of worship. 2) to exalt His nature in our hearts and minds. 3) to reorient ourselves to Him, drawing near to Him in love. 4) to individually identify with the community of believers both locally and with the broader "Body of Christ." (Mark 12:30 & Romans 12:1-2)

Teaching

We are committed to learning God's Word, the Bible, and being challenged and shaped by its truth. We have a team of teachers who lead this time of methodically teaching through the books of the Bible for the purpose of equipping us to fulfill God's purpose of passing truth to others. (2 Timothy 2:2)

Table Talk

We gather in groups around tables at our Sunday gatherings. Our teachers include discussion and prayer times to investigate, in community, how the teaching can apply individually and corporately. The tables are one of our main "connecting points." As a side benefit, you can also keep your coffee on the table!

Baptism

We baptize in water those who have newly come to faith in Jesus. The act of baptism represents bringing us through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus into the life of New Creation inaugurated in Christ. (Colossians 2:12-13 & Romans 6:3-4 )

Communion

We regularly partake of communion together. Participation is based on Jesus' instruction on the night before He was arrested and crucified (Luke 22:14-20). Communion is a time of remembrance and reflection on the sacrifice Jesus made on our behalf (Hebrews 10:10). Communion also anticipates and proclaims the return of Jesus (1 Corinthians 11:26).

Values

Unity Emphasis

We believe Christian leaders should have a larger Kingdom focus than merely what God is doing in any one group or denomination. Christlikeness requires seeking unity with those who adhere to the core message of the good news about Jesus rather than causing division over secondary issues. Circa 1627 AD, Rupertus Meldenius pithily described this as, "[i]n essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, charity." According with this value, we've chosen to adhere to The Lausanne Covenant from 1974 signed by evangelical leaders from more than 150 nations.

Team Approach

We believe that a team approach to ministry is a biblical approach to fulfilling The Great Commission. Well-functioning teams are a manifestation of the type of servant leadership Jesus modeled (John 13:1-17), and provide an example of mutual accountability like we see throughout the book of Acts. Effective leaders are those who function well within teams.

A Royal Priesthood

We believe that each one who responds to Jesus' call to salvation is given ministry to do. St. Peter describes us as a "royal priesthood" (1 Peter 2:9), giving us a beautiful and challenging metaphor for Christian life. We're called to be representatives of God's Kingdom, and the ones who mediate God's presence to the world. The church is God's chosen "connecting point" to the world.

Servant Leadership

We believe that, like Christ, we should seek to serve rather than be served. The role of the servant-leader is to help equip and release other people to be effective "connecting points" in their communities. The Kingdom of God grows as each "royal priest" becomes a servant-leader and continues this cycle of sharing God's New Creation.