ABOUT US
ABOUT US
COMMUNITY
Enjoy Church is a community of people who are striving together to discover God’s purpose and plan for their lives. Imagine a home for all who are looking for hope. This is Enjoy Church!
Wherever you are in life, you matter and you have a purpose. We want to help you become the person God has created you to be. Your journey has a next step and we'll help you find it.
You don't have to take the next step alone. With a strong community of friends, you can laugh, grow, and serve with people who genuinely care about you. Click the button to find your Next Step!
OUR PURPOSE
THE VISION OF ENJOY CHURCH
OUR VISION
We believe that being part of a church family should be fun! Since God intended for us to live our lives to the fullest, we encourage believers to follow the plan God has crafted specifically for them. At Enjoy Church, we put everything we do through the filter of our Top Five Values – Love, Unity, Joy, Extreme Responsibility, and Promotion.
OUR TOP 5 VALUES
Love, Unity, Joy, Extreme Responsibility, and Promotion.
OUR MISSION
Enjoy Church exists to lead people to experience and enjoy the unconditional LOVE of Christ and help them reach their full potential in Him!
MEET OUR PASTORS
DAREN AND LAURA CARSTENS
Pastors Daren & Laura Carstens became senior pastors of New Testament Fellowship in 2000. The mission was to imitate the church of the New Testament. In 2009 we changed our name to Enjoy Church to express our church’s heartbeat, encapsulated in the scripture in John 10:10 – “I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance to the full, till it overflows.”
WHAT TO EXPECT
YOU BELONG AT ENJOY CHURCH
No matter what stage, age, or season you find yourself in, Enjoy Church is for you! We invite you to come just as you are and be part of this community of people who are striving together to discover God’s purpose and plan for their lives!
YOUR FIRST VISIT
Enjoy Church is a fun, friendly place for you and your family to learn about and worship God. You’ll experience a casual atmosphere, energetic music, and dynamic teaching that you can relate to. We welcome people from every walk of life, race, color, creed, social standing, or financial background. What matters to us isn’t where you’ve been – it’s where you’re going.
Pastors Daren and Laura and the entire teaching team of Enjoy Church teach from the Bible in a way that’s easy to understand. Using creativity, humor, and practical illustrations, the messages come alive in a way relevant to your everyday life.
Our worship services at Enjoy Church are engaging, energetic, and interactive! We choose a variety of styles that not only speak to the younger generation, but that also cross age barriers and encourage everyone to enter worship easily.
At Enjoy Church, we encourage you to come as you are. God loves us all, no matter where we come from or what our style of dress is. Our relaxed atmosphere means you can dress as comfortably as you want!
FOR THE FAMILY
EVERYONE HAS A PLACE AT ENJOY CHURCH
EC KIDS
EC Kids is available for children from birth to 5th grade. The care and growth of every child is our highest priority, and our passion is to create exciting, Bible-driven, interactive environments specifically designed for your kids! EC Kids is available during each worship experience so you can enjoy a great service knowing your child is being loved and nurtured!
IMPACT STUDENTS
IMPACT Student Ministry is a casual experience designed specifically for middle school and high school students to fellowship, have fun and build genuine life-giving relationships.
Immediately following every Sunday service.
ENJOY CHURCH
Our desire at Enjoy Church is to get everyone connected. We have ministries for everybody, no matter what age or stage you're in. We have something for you!
OUR BELIEFS
THE BELIEFS OF ENJOY CHURCH
We are a spirit-filled church and base all our teachings on the Bible, which is the living Word of God. We believe that God is the creator of all things. That His son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins. That through His death and resurrection, we are promised salvation and right standing with God. That through living out our faith, we are compelled to change the world around us for the better, even if it means changing one life at a time. We believe that there is nothing you can’t accomplish with God in your life.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
The Holy Bible, and only the Bible, is the authoritative Word of God. It alone is the final authority in determining all doctrinal truths. In its original writing, it is inspired, infallible and inerrant (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:20-21; Proverbs 30:5; Romans 16:25-26). Trinity There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These three are coequal and co-eternal (I John 5:7; Genesis 1:26; Matthew 3:16-17, 28:19; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; Hebrews 3:7-11).
Jesus Christ is God the Son, the second person of the Trinity. On earth, Jesus was 100% God and 100% man. He is the only man ever to have lived a sinless life. He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, performed miracles, died on the cross for mankind and thus, atoned for our sins through the shedding of His blood. He rose from the dead on the third day according to the Scriptures, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and will return again in power and glory. (John 1:1,14, 20:28; I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6; Philippians 2:5-6; I Timothy 2:5).
Jesus Christ was conceived by God the Father, through the Holy Spirit (the third person of the Trinity) in the virgin Mary's womb; therefore, He is the Son of God (Matthew 1:18, 25; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:27-35).
Man was created good and upright, but by voluntary transgression he fell; his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Gen. 1:26-31, 3:1-7; Romans 5:12-21).
For anyone to know God, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential (John 6:44, 65; Matthew 19:28; Titus 3:5).
We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ: His death, burial, and resurrection. Salvation is a gift from God, not a result of our good works or of any human efforts (Ephesians 2:8-9; Galatians 2:16, 3:8; Titus 3:5; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 16:31; Hebrews 9:22).
Repentance is the commitment to turn away from sin in every area of our lives and to follow Christ, which allows us to receive His redemption and to be regenerated by the Holy Spirit. Thus, through repentance we receive forgiveness of sins and appropriate salvation (Acts 2:21, 3:19; I John 1:9).
Sanctification is the ongoing process of yielding to God’s Word and His Spirit in order to complete the development of Christ's character in us. It is through the present ministry of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God that the Christian is enabled to live a Godly life (I Thessalonians 4:3, 5:23; II Corinthians 3:18, 6:14-18, II Thessalonians 2:1-3, Romans 8:29, 12:1-2, Hebrews 2:11).
The Blood that Jesus Christ shed on the Cross of Calvary was sinless and is 100% sufficient to cleanse mankind of all sin. Jesus allowed Himself to be punished for both our sinfulness and our sins, enabling all those who believe to be free from the penalty of sin, which is death (I John 1:7; Revelation 1:5, 5:9; Colossians 1:20; Romans 3:10-12, 23, 5:9; John 1:29).
Christians are people who have invited the Lord Jesus Christ to come and live inside them by His Holy Spirit. They relinquish the authority of their lives over to him thus making Jesus the Lord of their life as well as Savior. They put their trust in what Jesus accomplished for them when He died, was buried, and rose again from the dead (John 1:12; John 14:17, 23; John 15:4; Romans 8:11; Revelation 3:20).
Given at Pentecost, it is the promise of the Father, sent by Jesus after His Ascension, to empower the Church to preach the Gospel throughout the whole earth (Joel 2:28-29; Matthew 3:11; Mark 16:17; Acts 1:5,2:1-4, 17, 38-39, 8:14-17, 10:38, 44-47, 11:15-17, 19:1-6).
The Holy Spirit is manifested through a variety of spiritual gifts to build and sanctify the church, demonstrate the validity of the resurrection, and confirm the power of the Gospel. The Bible’s lists of these gifts are not necessarily exhaustive, and the gifts may occur in various combinations. All believers are commanded to earnestly desire the manifestation of the gifts in their lives. These gifts always operate in harmony with the Scriptures and should never be used in violation of Biblical parameters. (Hebrews 2:4; Romans 1:11, 12 :4-8; Ephesians 4:16; I Timothy 4:14; II Timothy 1:6-7; I Corinthians 12:1-31, 14:1-40; I Peter 4:10).
The church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of Jesus' Great Commission. Every person who is born of the Spirit is an integral part of the church as a member of the body of believers. There is a spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:22, 2:19-22; Hebrews 12:23; John 17:11, 20-23).
SACRAMENTS
Following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the new convert is commanded by the Word of God to be baptized in water in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:38; Mark 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-38; 10:47-48).
A unique time of communion in the presence of God when the elements of bread and grape juice (the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ) are taken in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross (Matthew 26:26-29; I Corinthians 10:16, 11:23-25).
We believe marriage is defined in the Bible as a covenant, a sacred bond between one man and one woman, instituted by and publicly entered into before God (Matthew 19:4-6).
Healing of the sick is illustrated in the life and ministry of Jesus, and included in the commission of Jesus to His disciples. It is given as a sign, which is to follow believers. It is also a part of Jesus' work on the Cross and one of the gifts of the Spirit. (Psalm 103:2-3; Isaiah 53:5; Matthew 8:16-17; Mark 16:17-18; Acts 8:6-7; James 5:14-16; I Corinthians 12:9, 28; Romans 11:29).
It is the Father's will for believers to become whole, healthy and successful in all areas of life. But because of the fall, many may not receive the full benefits of God’s will while on Earth. That fact, though, should never prevent all believers from seeking the full benefits of Christ’s provision in order to better serve others.
(John 3:3-11; II Corinthians 5:17-21; Romans 10:9-10)
(II Timothy 1:7, 2:11; Philippians 4:7-8; Romans 12:2; Isaiah 26:3).
(Isaiah 53:4,5; Matthew 8:17; I Peter 2:24).
(Joshua 1:8; Malachi 3:10-11; Luke 6:38; II Corinthians 9:6-10; Deuteronomy 28:1-14; Psalm 34:10, 84:11; Philippians 4:19).
Jesus Christ was physically resurrected from the dead in a glorified body three days after His death on the cross. In addition, both the saved and the lost will be resurrected; they that are saved to the resurrection of life and they that are lost to the resurrection of eternal damnation (Luke 24:16, 36, 39; John 2:19-21, 20:26-28, 21:4; Acts 24:15; I Corinthians 15:42, 44; Philippians 1:21-23, 3:21).
Heaven is the eternal dwelling place for all believers in the Gospel of Jesus Christ (Matthew 5:3, 12, 20, 6:20, 19:21, 25:34; John 17:24; II Corinthians 5:1; Hebrews 11:16; I Peter 1:4).
After living one life on earth, the unbelievers will be judged by God and sent to Hell where they will be eternally tormented with the Devil and the Fallen Angels (Matthew 25:41; Mark 9:43-48; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 14:9-11, 20:12-15, 21:8).
Jesus Christ will physically and visibly return to earth for the second time to establish His Kingdom. This will occur at a date undisclosed by the Scriptures (Matthew 24:30, 26:63-64; Acts 1:9-11; I Thessalonians 4:15-17; II Thessalonians 1:7-8; Revelation 1:7).