Faith Christian Community, an elder led ministry is making a lasting difference in Alaska and around the world by leading people to become fully devoted followers of Christ, loving extravagantly, witnessing boldly, and worshiping passionately. Faith Christian Community is a non-denominational ministry that embraces holiness tradition of John Wesley.
Throughout the New Testament, principles of church leadership point to a central theme - plurality. As modeled by scripture, Faith Christian Community is led by a plurality of leaders, known as elders that are comprised of members selected from the church body and up to three staff elders, called pastors. These pastors make up the executive leadership team (XLT).
Faith Christian Community elders provide spiritual oversight, vision, direction, and leadership of the church and its mission, entrusting the implementation of that mission to staff leadership.
Staff leadership is accountable for following the elders’ vision and direction, and executing the ministry mission of Jesus Christ.
This system of organizational leadership, known as Polity Governance, allows the elders to focus on their biblical mandate to lead and shepherd the church, while allowing staff leadership the opportunity to maximize the use of their gifts and talents as they lead their respective ministries in accordance with the vision and mission provided by the elders.
