Who We Are

About Us

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Our Mission

Tree of Life Church exists to cultivate deep roots in Christ, bear abundant fruit for His Kingdom, and make an eternal impact in our community and beyond.

Our Theology

What we believe

At Tree of Life Church, we prioritize grace-filled community to come together with various perspectives seeking wisdom, truth, & Shalom.

We believe God is always leading, shaping, and testing our character. We build our life with eternal qualities such as our character (1 Cor 3:13). We can determine our character based on our virtues, ethics, morals, and principles. We can identify the source of those thanks to the wisdom of the Holy Scriptures.

Though the term "Trinity" is not explicit in the scriptures, relational nature of  God (being perfect love) is absolutely biblical. Wesleyans believe in one God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Savior of all who put their faith in Him alone for eternal life.

We believe that those who are made new in Christ are called to be holy in character and conduct, and can only live this way by being filled with the Lord’s Spirit. We believe in the Bible and its sufficiency to establish our faith and conduct. We believe God wills for people everywhere to know Him and be made new in Christ. We believe that the purpose of the Church is to worship God in spirit and in truth, and to reach a lost and fallen world with the gospel of Jesus Christ through its worship, witness, and loving deeds.

We choose obedience over personal preference, with prayer as offense, not just defense. The Holy Spirit, not us, starts and leads the movement. Discerning and faithfully following the Spirit’s leading produces the transforming fruit God plans for us.

(Zechariah 4:6, Matthew 7:7-8, John 15:5, Galatians 5:25, Ephesians 6:18-20, Colossians 4:2-4)

Big relationships are built on love, collaboration and forgiveness. We choose trust over tension and mutual voluntary submission in our relationships to unite in pursuing God’s vision.

(Mark 12:30-31, John 13:35, John 17:21, Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 3:20-21, Ephesians 4:2,15, 32, Ephesians 5:21, Philippians 2:1-5)

There is a growing gap between the gospel and our cultures. We must mobilize a multiethnic, multigenerational and multieconomic Kingdom Force of disciples making disciples to close the gap. Our Kingdom Force includes laity and clergy, women and men, from everywhere to everywhere.

(Psalm 145:11-13, Matthew 6:9-13, Matthew 9:37-38, Matthew 28:18, Romans 1:16, Galatians 3:28, Ephesians 4:11-12, 1 Peter 2:5, 2 Peter 3:9, Revelation 7:9)

Our denomination

What we practice

Tree of Life Church is part of the Wesleyan family of churches. We believe in the Triune God and the authority of Scripture, and we are committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with all people — especially those who struggle to know Him. Our faith inspires us to stand for justice, fight all forms of poverty, and cultivate authentic, grace-filled relationships that bring hope and transformation to our community.

The following are terms descriptive of who Wesleyans are and why they do what they do. They describe the “soul of the Church”:

Jesus Christ is the defining feature of God’s will and relationship with all humankind. In Christ is found both newness of life and the highest and clearest example for godliness. People made new in Christ find Him to be the source of faith, hope, and love in both the inner life and in our outward actions engaging a world desperate for hope and life.

The Bible is God’s holy Word. It uniquely and infallibly reveals God’s plan for His people and how to live out that plan, individually and corporately. Beliefs, practices, priorities, and our mission are to be anchored in clear biblical teachings.

Making disciples is a clear mandate from Christ. This requires a strong missional focus on evangelism and training in spiritual growth and holy living. Done effectively, this will produce and promote growth and health in and among the churches.

The denomination exists to help local congregations grow and multiply, be more healthy, and more authentically reflect God’s plan. Local churches are the most fundamental and strategic points of evangelism and discipleship. The challenge of the denomination is to keep finding the best ways to serve, strengthen, and multiply congregations.

Wesleyans respect leadership that is placed over them, while realizing that the authority and effectiveness of spiritual leadership is not primarily bestowed, but earned, and is characterized by a loving and willing heart of obedience that serves God and mankind gladly. Wesleyans desire to be leaders in serving.

There is intrinsic value in every person. Biblical unity becomes all the more important and beautiful in the light of the wide-ranging differences in personalities, cultures, races, languages, talents, and perspectives. Finding unity and mutual love in Christ eliminates devaluation and deprivation of life to one another.

Worship is much less about singing songs and much more about a state of being. We're commanded to love the Lord with our heart, soul, mind, and strength and our neighbor as ourselves. We express adoration for God through service, compassion, study, conversations, prayer, stewarding our gifts for God's glory, and modern music which uses a more common language. 


You can read every bit of our discipline here:

https://www.wesleyan.org/about/the-discipline

Core Values / Discipleship

Our Model

Jesus taught with time-less illustrations based in agriculture that taught deep truth. The Tree of Life serves as our ideal for the type of culture we strive toward.

Every seed has the potential to create a forest or a grove… A seed is a person, curiously driven by the Spirit to Good News of invitation into faith. Through intentional relationships & invitations, discover God’s seeds loaded with potential everywhere. Then each seed has a choice to remain a seed or trust Christ by dying to self, bear fruit, & be multiplied.

Seeds are resilient, but if they’re not placed in good soil it will show. Tree of Life is committed to providing a beautiful, safe, & healthy environment. Being an authentically, grace-filled, welcoming culture we will cultivate hospitality for our friends, neighbors, & even our “enemies” to do life together.  

Jesus describes the importance of roots for the life of a plant. Abiding in Christ is key to a rich & fulfilling life. Plants with shallow roots wither in tough times & seeds with no root at all drift where the world blows them. It’s the plant that grows deep first and the tree that has deep roots that endure adversity.  

After the seed dies, grows deeper, absorbs nourishment, there’s no way to go but up. In fact, plants have to grow toward the sun. Jesus being both 100% God & 100% man allows us to maintain our metaphor. Character formation from a flimsy green stem toward an armored brown trunk is modeled for us by Christ. Since we’re all called to “conform to the image of the Son”, we’re all to develop a virtuous, Christ-like character that is always reaching vertically toward Jesus our God.  

As we grow in Christ, being fueled and equipped by the Holy Spirit in the soil we’re immersed in, we extend the reach of God’s Kingdom. Our vertical growth toward the sun forces us to grow horizontally toward our neighbor. We’re called to carry out ministry wherever God places us (work, school, team, clubs, neighborhood, family, & elsewhere) so we commit ourselves to reaching the hurt, lost, broken, & hungry. 

Shade back in the day wasn’t a bad thing like our Gen Z friends may make it out to be. When a desert traveler, being hot, hurting, or dehydrated, stumbles upon a shade tree it’s the ideal place to rest and heal. In the same way, we strive to bring healing to the hurting, addicted, grieving, and hungry through various ministries that provide shade to any passers by. Our hope of course that they too would be planted in the soil too, but our hospitality is not conditional. 

Organically, a good tree produces good fruit and a bad tree produces bad fruit. The Bible thankfully points us to 9+ virtues that are tangible, Christ-like characteristics that fortunately come naturally to a person abiding in Christ. The first command given to mankind was to “be fruitful & multiply” which of course has connotations, but have you thought about whether you multiplied without the fruit? As a reproducing church, Tree of Life desires to bear the Fruit of the Spirit as our witness to Christ as well as send & support church planters to fruitfully multiply as God’s mustard seed Kingdom continues invade earth as it is in heaven. 

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