OUR MISSION

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The Dwelling Place is a Christian ministry.

We are a people of prayer, a ministry of Christ’s salvation, healing, deliverance, and restoration, and a training ground for disciples devoted to the Truth of Jesus Christ.

We live to demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ but also make ourselves available to the demonstration of His power through signs, wonders, and miracles so people experience His goodness AND His greatness.

WHO WE ARE
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The Dwelling Place is a church founded as a result of God touching lives at the Smith Wigglesworth - Oakland, California conference in 1904 and then linking up with the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 (see December 1906 Azusa Street newsletter). We joined the cooperative fellowship known as the Assemblies of God in 1941.

Today, as then,  we are committed to seeing the world transformed by the love and power of Jesus Christ. We’ve been influenced by historic revivals and current graces of God around the world and believe the prayer “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” Matthew 6:9,10.

We are excited about what God is doing in and through our church. Our meetings express the joy and gratitude of knowing God. He affects everything we do so we live to reflect all He is.

Our desire is that all who visit or join us will experience the awesome reality of Jesus Christ through the presence of the Holy Spirit, the Truth of the Bible, love, prayer, worship, and the powerful testimonies of the saints concerning what God is doing today in our midst and around the world.

OUR CALLING
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We minister to God, first. All our ministry flows through worship and prayer, both grounded in Truth. Thus, a lifestyle of extravagant prayer and worship is a key aspect of our ministry. We know it's not enough to merely know about God, we must have God-experiences all our days because it is His heart’s desire.

We understand that we are more than "sinners saved by grace", we are saints who are called sons and daughters of the King. So we expect to successfully fulfill the Great Commission - making disciples of Christ by passing on ways of God from one person and generation to the next.

Salvation frees us from death and the bondage of sin.

The truth of the Bible frees believers from the lies and torments of the devil.

The Holy Spirit empowers believers to pray for the sick with the expected result of them being healed, as well as, further the gospel with other demonstrations of God’s love.

We encourage each member of this family to grow beyond their current potential through finding and fulfilling their God-given purpose.

We understand that life is a journey and we are committed to ministering the full gospel of Jesus Christ to all ages and backgrounds. We value providing leadership and care to each adult, youth, and child.

We are called to equip and send the church to carry on the works of Jesus. We embrace the biblical government of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers for the equipping of the saints and recognize the authority of other biblical leaders.

OUR MINISTRY
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We desire to demonstrate God's grace, unconditional love, and transforming power to everyone.

We set ourselves to live as people of honor and impact every socio-economic group & cultural realm in order that God’s mercy & justice would reign because we realize don’t merely pastor a group of people who meet in a church building, but a group of people who affect their community and beyond.

We believe every believer is a supernatural minister of the gospel of power whom signs, wonders, and miracles can follow. Jesus said we would do greater things than He and we take Him at His word.

Jesus said, "Come, all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light and you will find rest unto your souls." “Rest for our souls" is not an invitation to retire into inactivity but to partner with God in setting people free from death and sin, as well as, promote the wisdom of God into every-day situations.

WE BELIEVE
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There is only one true God who is the eternal King, Creator and Redeemer of all that is. He is perfect, holy, just, merciful, loving, good, and truthful. He has revealed Himself to be eternally self- existent - one being in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God.

Humankind was created in the image of God to know and enjoy Him; He is our Father. Yet we willfully rejected the lordship and glory of God and thus aligned ourselves with Satan, the enemy of our souls. Sickness, death and judgment entered the world as a result and now all creation experiences the effects and consequences of these actions (sin).

The Lord Jesus Christ, the one and only Son of God, was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and is God's Anointed One. He, though sinless, was crucified for our sins, died, was buried, resurrected and ascended into heaven, and is now alive today, in the presence of God the Father and in His people through the manifestation we know as The Holy Spirit. He is fully God and He is fully man.

We are saved by God's grace, through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Anyone can be restored to fellowship with God through repenting of sin, and believing and receiving Jesus as their Savior and Lord. The Holy Spirit convicts, regenerates, justifies, and adopts as sons and daughters as we enter the Kingdom of God.

The Holy Spirit, who dwells in every Christian, enables them to live holy life and minister with supernatural capacity. The baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 1:4-8 and 2:4 is poured out on believers so they might have power to witness.

The victorious redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides freedom from the power of the enemy's sin, lies, sickness and torment.

The Church consists of all who live their lives in faith under the lordship of Jesus Christ. He gave His church the ordinances of Baptism and Communion. The Church exists to carry on Christ's ministry and advance His kingdom by undoing the works of the enemy, preaching and living the good news of God's love, discipling the nations, and baptizing and teaching them to love and obey God.

The Blessed Hope, which is the glorious visible return of our Lord Jesus Christ for His bride: The Church. It will usher end the end of this age where mankind will be rewarded with one of two eternal destinations.

Heaven and hell are real places. There will be a resurrection of the saved and the lost, one going to everlasting life and the other to everlasting torment.

We encourage all to take the path of everlasting life.