Welcome to Christ’s Center Church!

Our Church was founded right here in Junction City by Pastor Jon Bowers in 1975. We are, as we say, “a local church of powerful people who release heaven wherever we go.” That might be at our own neighborhood elementary school, or it might be at an orphanage in Ethiopia. We go a lot of places. But wherever we go, we endeavor to love God, love others, and serve both.

Our church family meets every Sunday Morning at 10:00 for worship, and we have home groups that meet on Wednesday evenings. Come and join us. We’ve saved a place for you!

Senior Pastor Joshua Rivas

Senior Leaders, Pastor Joshua & Karen Rivas

Here‘s what last Sunday’s Service Looked Like

Our Associations

Christ’s Center has been an independent church, non-denominational church since we kicked off in 1975. But that doesn’t mean we are independent of the body of Christ. We maintain close, personal connections with church leaders and networks of leaders, both regionally and across the country. Here are the primary ones:

One Hope Network

One Hope of Lane County is a network of diverse churches and ministries from all across the Willamette Valley who join together to show Jesus’ love throughout our local communities. One Hope is led by Steve Buss, a well respected long time missionary and pastor who speaks to our own congregation at least once a year.

Streams of Mercy

For more than three decades, Christ’s Center has recognized long time YWAM leaders Wick & Jan Nease as apostolic leaders and outside elders. Wick is now the director of Streams of Mercy, an international ministry network of orphanages. We are involved in sending missions teams to these orphanages, and Wick and Jan visit Christ’s Center multiple times a year, offering support, counsel and insight from an outside perspective.

1. God is a Good Father
2. Jesus Christ is both Savior and Lord
3. The Holy Spirit is Active
4. We are Sons and Daughters First
5. Our Sin Separated Us from God
6. We are Redeemed through Jesus Christ
7. The Church is God’s Family on Earth
8. The Church Exists to Glorify God
9. The Church Works Together to Expand God’s Family
10. The Kingdom of God is the Only Hope for Mankind
11. We are Called to Extend God’s Kingdom
12. The Kingdom of God is Both Already and Not Yet

Christ’s Center Statement of Faith

We believe that there is only one true God who is the eternal King, Creator and Redeemer of all creation. He is perfectly holy, just, loving and truthful. He has revealed Himself to be the eternally self-existent one being manifested as: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God, and the rule of faith and practice for all believers in Christ, and that the Scriptures along with the power of the Holy Spirit are the primary means of guidance and strength for all Christians.

Humankind was created in the image of God to know and enjoy Him, yet we willfully rejected the Lordship and glory of God for which we were intended. Because of this, sickness, death and judgment entered the world and now creation experiences the effects and consequences of 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, empowered by the Holy Spirit to inaugurate God’s Kingdom on earth. He 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. He is “true God” and “true man.” The victorious redemptive work of Christ on the cross provides freedom from the power of the enemy – sin, lies, sickness, poverty, and torment.

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

We believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live holy and minister supernaturally. The baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 1:4-8 and 2:4 is poured out on believers that they might have power to be witnesses.

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

We believe in the ever increasing government of God and in the Blessed Hope, which is the glorious visible return of our Lord Jesus Christ for His overcoming bride – His church. Heaven and hell are real places. There will be a resurrection of the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting death.