We Extend a Welcome To You at
Lexington Presbyterian Church
120 S. Main Street
Lexington, VA 24450
William M. Klein, Pastor
Phone: 540-463-3873 Fax: 540-463-1885
Mission Statement
We believe God intends for us
to be sound in our faith, our service to one another, and our mission
beyond our walls and doors. Our task is to understand, embrace, rejoice
in, and share that intention.
To that end, we seek:
- To be an authentic, vigorous community of Christian believers within the Presbyterian-Reformed tradition and loyal to the Presbyterian Church (USA);
- To put into practice our understanding of God's grace by being welcoming and inclusive;
- To present effectively God's Word through our worship, preaching, Christian education, music, serving, and congregational life;
- To emphasize understanding the Bible and God's call through it;
- To draw nonbelievers to faith and believers to spiritual depth; and
- To use our gifts to do God's work by reaching out in love to the community and the world at large.
Approved by session, April, 2007
Life of the Church
Some time back our Session, the governing body of the local church, appointed a task force to look at the life of our church to see how to implement our mission better. In 2006 this task force produced a summary report that described several actions. In the years since, we have worked to implement or make progress on these recommendations.
Here are the opening paragraphs of the report:
The life of the church is about the life of Christ moving in our midst through the power of the Holy Spirit. To describe the life of the church at any given moment is to provide a snap-shot in time. The next moment the life of the church will not look quite the same because the Holy Spirit is ever calling us to new ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by pathways as yet untrodden, through perils unknown. The only thing we know for certain is that we step into the future trusting the good Lord to lead, judge, correct, and support us.
Lexington Presbyterian Church has had a long and rich history. By God's grace, it shall have a long and rich future. Our hope is not to get in the Lord's way ... but to be discerning and faithful. Our prayer is that we may have eyes to see where God is at work and the mettle to join him there.