OUR VALUES

“TRANSFORM THE WORLD BY LEADING PEOPLE TO JESUS.”

 Our mission makes us underdogs.

We are an underdog church in an underdog city with underdog people.

In the Northeast, the moment you choose to follow Jesus you become an underdog. Christians must swim upstream in our culture. You will face overwhelming odds and adversity. Even with all the challenges, underdogs can win! An underdog church that wants to win must embrace these 6 values:

UNDERDOG CHURCH VALUES

1. God First Living

“God’s Got This!”

Matthew 6:33 says “Seek first the Kingdom of God.” Then God will take care of the rest of the details. Underdogs reorder their lives to invite God to fight their battles for them. When you start living by faith you release God to go to work for you. God’s got this! When you live a God first life you access the abundance of heaven by investing generously into Kingdom endeavors and people who can’t pay you back.

2. Spirit Empowered.

“The Spirit Makes The Difference!”

The Spirit of God doesn’t make you better than someone else, the Spirit makes you better than YOU! God intends to give you power to win! The Spirit of God empowers us to function in the manner of Jesus! Wherever Jesus went, he brought life and wholeness, transforming lives with his love. When we live naturally supernatural lives empowered by the Spirit we have power to overcome.

3. Continuous Improvement.

“Come as you are, don’t stay as you are!”

You are not going to start out having it all together. We must grow. We must learn. We must have the grace to fail and get up again. When people don’t measure up to a standard of excellence, they are often discarded or overlooked. Two Rivers values everyone, helping them grow incrementally.  We are a community of radical grace. Radical grace allows everyone the freedom to make mistakes and gives space for everyone to belong no matter how they look, talk, act, smell, or vote. We aren’t looking to be cool according to culture. We are looking to find the overlooked wherever they are and invite them to participate in the kingdom.

4. Sacrificial Living.

“Do more with less.”

Sacrificial living is our willingness to do more with less. We aren’t limited by what we don’t have, we are limited by what we are unwilling to attempt. Not having what others have doesn’t disqualify us from obedience. Sacrificial living requires us to work hard while everyone else dreams or “prays about it.” We may only have a little, but what we do have we willingly give to Jesus. We roll up our sleeves and get to work. We know it will cost us to transform our communities and we are willing to pay the price.

5. Life-Giving.

“Speak Life, Laugh More”

Seeds only grow when exposed to the right environmental conditions. If you want to grow, you need the right environment. That’s why we think a life-giving environment needs to be fun, flexible, and forgiving. We have learned to laugh about life. At the same time, it’s ok to not be ok. BUT, it’s not ok, to never give back to those who invest in you.  Underdogs have to work together to create environments that are life-giving. No one in the church needs to be perfect in order to be a perfect church. When we all give a little, we all receive a lot. If you want to receive life, you will have to give life.

6. We win together.

“Team work makes the dream work.”

We can’t be who God has called us to be until EVERY believer is activated and serving in their ministry gift. In God’s kingdom, EVERY member is a minister. Therefore, we live as spiritual sons/daughters and serve as spiritual fathers/mothers to equip others to fulfill their God-given destiny. United we stand, divided we fall. Do life together, serve together.

Our Story

Two Rivers Church started with a dream and calling in Pastors Will and Crystal’s hearts to birth a life-giving church in Binghamton to transform the world by leading people to Jesus. In 2012 they packed up everything and moved their family from Springfield, MO, to Binghamton, NY to pursue this vision.

This dream became a reality when 300 people gathered on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at the Regal Cinema in Binghamton to launch Two Rivers Church. Since then, we have experienced amazing growth, reaching people throughout the NY & PA area, seen thousands of lives changed by the love of Jesus, helped plant hundreds of life-giving churches nationally and globally, launched the Hope Foundation of Binghamton to serve those in need in our community and Kindgom Builders to serve those in need around the world. We’ve been in awe as God continues to build a beautiful, thriving church family in multiple locations. Through it all, the vision of a life-giving church for New York and Pennsylvania remains the same, and we invite you to be a part of the next chapter of what God is doing here at Two Rivers. Welcome home!

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