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Welcome & About Us
We are a Church plant seeking to serve West Madison Alabama. We are a mission church of the Presbyterian Church of America.
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Our mission is to make disciples of Christ by proclaiming the gospel, preaching and teaching the Word, administering the sacraments, and committing ourselves to prayer.
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Church Planter: Pastor Nathan White
Email: nathan@decaturpca.org for more information
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for more and up to date information follow our facebook page below
Our Weekly Meetings
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Sundays: Core group Meeting + Dinner, 5pm
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Tuesdays: Men's Bible Study, 6:30am
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Tuesdays: Ladies Bible Study, 6pm
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Wednesdays: Prayer Meeting, 5:30
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Where we Meet:
Sundays: Hosted by First Bible Church - Madison
29113 Huntsville Brownsferry Rd, Madison, AL 35756, USA
Bible studies and prayer meeting locations available on request
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Supporting Us Financially:
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Our Mission
To make disciples of Christ by proclaiming the gospel, preaching and teaching the Word, administering the sacraments, and committing ourselves to prayer.
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Our mission is laid out for us by Jesus, Himself: To make disciples. This includes calling people to repentance and faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins and reconciliation to God as well as coming alongside those who have trusted Him as, by the power of the Holy Spirit, they are conformed more and more into the image of Christ. We believe God has promised to work through the Ordinary Means of Grace, Word, sacrament, and prayer, to grow us both individually and corporately.
Our Vision
To be a community of disciples who trust Christ, worship him together, serve our neighbors for his sake, and preach his gospel to the world.
The message of the gospel does not change, but our context offers specific opportunities and needs that our church wants to address. Recognizing that these opportunities and needs can change over time, rather than committing ourselves to specific programs, we want to operate on basic principles or goals to help guide us as we think about how to introduce our area to the Good Shepherd, Jesus. They serve as guideposts as we consider how best to faithfully do ministry. Those four guideposts are:
Our Values
Christ For You | Christ For Us | Christ For the World
Christ for You: We want every person who belongs to our community of believers to know Jesus personally, not simply as an example but as their Lord, Savior, Shepherd, and Friend. We place a high value on the proclamation of the gospel, the message that Jesus lived, died, and was raised for the salvation of sinners, not only in our gathered worship, but also in our personal lives. The hope of this message should permeate every part of the life of a believer. We want Christ for you.
Christ for Us: Christ saves and knows each of us individually, but he also makes us a part of a people! He doesn't save us and send us out to navigate the world alone, but instead places us in his family, surrounding us with others who walk through our lives with us. This body of believers is the Church and Jesus cares so much about it that Scripture calls the Church the Bride of Christ! Being part of this community of disciples, at minimum, includes corporate worship, which is vital to the life of both a Christian and the Church, but it also involves developing relationships shaped by the gospel and built on a shared love of Jesus. We want Good Shepherd to be full of these types of relationships. We want Christ for Us.
Christ for our Community: Christ saves us, places us in his family, and sends us out together to serve our neighbors and proclaim the message of the gospel. We want to foster a genuine love for our community, moving in love toward the people around us. We look for ways to serve the schools, neighborhoods, and other institutions in our area, not just to be good citizens, but because we want to take the love of the Good Shepherd to the people God has placed in our lives. We want Christ for our Community.
Christ for the World: Our church does not only want to take the love and message of Christ to our immediate community, but everywhere! We desire to see people come to know Christ and be conformed to his likeness all over our state, nation, and the world for their good and God's glory. We do this by sending money and resources to missionaries in both domestic and international contexts as well as sending people to engage in this work! By God's grace, we want not only to fund missionaries, but send people from our own congregation to join missionary teams and plant churches everywhere we can.
Our Planting Pastor
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Nathan grew up in Decatur, Alabama and began serving Decatur Presbyterian in January of 2017 as the pastoral intern. He eventually became the Youth Ministry Director and then Assistant Pastor, serving there until September of 2023 when he began planting Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in Madison, Alabama. Nathan grew up in church, believing the gospel from an early age, and is a graduate of Reformed Theological Seminary. He married his wife Rachael in March of 2016 and they have one daughter, Alice, born in October of 2021.
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Good Shepherd is
A Christian Church
An Evangelical Church
A Reformed Church
A Presbyterian Church