Who We Are

Machias Community Church is an independent fellowship of believers desiring to worship God in Spirit and in Truth; exalting Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; seeking to keep in step with God's Spirit by walking in obedience to God's inspired, inerrant Word, and reaching out to our community with the only answer to all of man's needs: The Good News of Jesus Christ.

View our Doctrinal Statement.

Services

Worship at Machias is informal and meaningful. While we do not follow a prescribed liturgy, we consistently include worship in singing praise through hymns and choruses along with biblical preaching. Occasionally there is a special musical by the church choir or an individual.

Children's church for children 3 years old through the 6th grade is offered midway through the main worship service. Nursery child care is also provided.

Worship Service Schedule
Sunday morning, 10:30 am Worship Service is in the large gray-colored chapel.

Sunday School
Sunday morning, 9:00 am An adult-level Sunday school class offers instruction in Bible subjects.

Mission Statement

The mission of Machias Community Church is to reach the unsaved in our community with the gospel of Jesus Christ. All of our programs and activities are evangelical in nature. While many of us support foreign missionaries individually, as a church we have chosen to focus our missionary concern on two fronts: here at home through the ministries of Machias Community Church, and nationally through the ministry of Village Missions.

Church Government

Machias Community Church has a modified form of congregational church government.

The affairs of the Church are administered by the staff and various boards with mutual accountability and annual accountability to the voting membership. The Church Staff is responsible for daily operations while the Elder Board is responsible for overall operations. The Elder Board is also the policy making body of the Church. The Deacons are responsible for ministering to the physical spiritual needs of the congregation. The Trustees are responsible for the facility and legal needs of the congregation. The voting membership meets at least once a year on the fourth Friday evening of February to hear an accounting of the previous year and to give approval for the next year's operations and budget.

Affiliation

Pastoral leadership is supplied by Village Missions: an interdenominational, cooperative, faith missionary society; ministering to the spiritual needs of rural and suburban communities in the U. S. and Canada - evangelical in its concept and evangelistic in its approach.