ABOUT US
OUR STORY
Glad Tidings began in 1919, when a group of people hungry for more of God’s presence gathered in a tent at 8th and High Streets in Muncie, Indiana to worship under Maria Woodworth-Etter. Over 100 years later, we continue to strive to be a congregation where everyone feels welcome and the love of God can be genuinely experienced. We like to say that Glad Tidings Church is a place where you can Belong, Know, and Grow, and it is our desire to meaningfully impact Delaware County, the surrounding counties of East Central Indiana, and people and countries around the world.
MISSION
Our vision is to go beyond what we can ask or imagine by trusting God to do immeasurably more according to His power that is at work within us (see Ephesians 3:20, NIV).
We commit ourselves to:
Complete and expand the ECI8 church-planting vision
Plant a global Glad Tidings Church
Partner with at least one missionary in every world region
Say “yes” to every legitimate missions need
Provide the best ministry to kids and students in East Central Indiana
Ensure that called individuals are trained and equipped for ministry
Establish a K-12 Christian school
Our mission is to be a growing network of life-giving churches developing biblically sound believers who reflect Christ’s character by connecting in community, reaching the lost, praying, and serving – and passionately investing in the Great Commission by giving sacrificially and equipping disciples for ministry.
VISION
VALUES
BELONG | KNOW | GROW
EQUIP | SEND | GO
STATEMENTS OF BELIEF
The Bible is the Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God’s truth and is infallible and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice.
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God whom, through His perfect life and sacrificial death, atoned for the sins of all who, by faith, trust in Him alone for salvation.
There is one God who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit indwells in all of God’s people and gives them the strength and the wisdom to trust Christ and follow Him.
Spirit baptism empowers the believer to be an effective witness for Christ. This experience may accompany or be subsequent to salvation, but spirit infilling should also be the result of an ongoing relationship with Christ for the believer.
There are two ordinances for the church which were regularly observed in the New Testament: baptism of the believer in water, wherein obedience to Christ’s command is expressed and identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection are witnessed; and communion, the memorial wherein believers partake of the bread and the cup which symbolize the Lord’s body and the shed blood and thus proclaim His death until He comes.
Jesus will return, bodily and visibly, to judge all mankind and to receive His people to Himself.
There is a literal heaven wherein all the righteous will eternally dwell and a literal hell wherein all who reject Christ as Savior will spend eternity.
