About - Stronger Families Church

About Stronger Families Church

VISION: Where IMPOSSIBILITIES Become TESTIMONIES

Mission: Connecting those who are far from God, to their Abundant Life in Christ!

Strategy: Be a Force of Liberty to the oppressed and Empowerment to the Willing!

WHY DO WE NEED ANOTHER CHURCH IN THIS CITY?

There are 975,000 people living in the Metropolitan Area.

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People in our city with little or no involvement in a local church.

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People involved in a church plant who have never been involved in a local church.

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Christ followers who started their relationship with Jesus in a local church.

Our Pastor & Assistant Pastor

Andre & Gisele Messner

Before starting Stronger Families, they served (on staff) at their home church in Missouri for years, where they served in just about every capacity, working with children, teens, adults, and small groups. They are passionate about Jesus and dedicated to helping the local church be all that God intends for it to be—where people can meet Jesus face-to-face and experience life transformation.

Andre and Gisele felt God’s call to Papillion in 2015, and by February of 2016, they packed up their home in Missouri and moved to Papillion.

They have four beautiful children, their daughters Julia and Elida, and their sons Titus and Caleb.

Their vision is to lead a church that loves Jesus, the community, and its people so fully that its common for people's impossibilities to become their testimonies.

They want to see all that are far from God be raised into new life in Christ where God's Glory is on full display through their lives.

As a life giving people, they have dedicated their lives to being a force of liberty to the oppressed and empowerment to the willing to see fullest measure of God's Beauty and Strength revealed through everyone.

Our Essentials

Everything we do is centered around leading people through our four essentials.

Know Jesus

Find Freedom

Discover Purpose

Make a Difference

Core Values

Love

Family/Church

Generosity

Relationships

Focus

Serving

Passion

Love

God seeks us all to be raised in Christ's inheritance that we receive all of His Acceptance, Love, and Strength. God is Good towards us!

Family/Church

The church is God's family, and as such, we fully accept, care for, and love everyone who comes to us like God does for us.

Through our church family we raise up Powerful Believers who overcome the impossible to Live Amazing lives for Jesus!

Generosity

As God is extremely generous with His people, we are naturally to be just as generous with our: resources, finances, time, and people.

Relationships

It’s not just who you know, but it’s who knows you that matters most. We are a church of groups. We don’t think anyone should do life alone.

Focus

Everything we do is driven by our vision. It if doesn’t line up, we don’t do it.

Serving

We are a church dedicated to serving our community and meeting real, tangible needs. We want to partner with the amazing people who are making amazing things happen.

Passion

We believe Jesus is worthy of all of our passion. We pour everything we have into everything we do.

Cornerstones

God is Good
Dream Big!

Nothing is Impossible
Have Audacious Faith!

Blood of Jesus Paid it All
His Kingdom is Now Ours,
Trust His Relentless Love!

We are Significant
Serve Your Calling Well!

Our Beliefs

Identity
(1 Jn 5, Gen 1, Rom 8, 2 Cor 5, 1 Jn 4, Eph 1 & 5)

God

Humanity

Humanity is made in the image of God from His spirit and is the supreme object of His creation.

We were created to live and become like our Father God through fellowship with Him, but became separated from that relationship through sinful disobedience.

As a result, we cannot attain to our rightful relationship with God, through our own effort, but only through the sacrifice of Jesus.

Every human spirit is from God's spirit making us worthy of our Father's connection and love.

Therefore we all naturally have His power unto love to establish peace, according to the faith we live.

His Bride The Church

Discipleship
(2 Ti 3, Jn 14-17, Eph 3, Rm 11, Eph 4)

The Bible

The Holy Spirit

Working in perfect conjunction with the Bible, the Holy Spirit works to lead, teach, comfort, and most importantly connect each believer to our Father's heart.

This is so we receive the greatest measure of our inheritance of the kingdom of heaven right now and in the resurrection to come.

By the Holy Spirit's help, we grow in faith, receiving greater grace, and thereby mature more as God's children showing forth ever increasing fruit of his glorious supernatural loving nature.

Being The Church

Being created in God's image, we can never change the fact that we are of supreme value, full of power to love, and dwell in peace.

By our created image, each believer has a calling (plan or purpose) on their lives from God that can never be changed, only embraced or ignored.

God's plan for each of our lives exists that we would live the greatest measures of true righteousness, peace, and joy all of our days; where We Love Life so much we couldn't imagine how it could be any better!

Kingdom
(Acts 2, Eph 1, Mat 6 & 9, 1 Jn 4)

Salvation - Gospel of the Kingdom

Fully Connected to God

As Jesus Is, So Are We

Service
(Ph 1, Mk 9, Ep 4, Rm 11, Jer 29, 1 Pt 2, 2 Cor 9)

Gifted & Empowered Purpose

Honor & Love

As we have been saved from our sins by the gift of grace in Jesus Christ, we are not to judge the hearts of others but only seek to be Love and Honor to all, revealing God's nature being activated in us.

This means we don't let the darkness of others or our environments influence us to act like them but we remain true to our identity by loving the unlovable and honoring everyone as they are all children of God and loved by him.

Generous like My Father

God has blessed us in every way so that we can be generous in every way to advance the gospel. Joyfully giving our time, affection, talents, and money attracts God’s attention, draws heaven’s blessings, produces transformation and enables Him to trust us with the true riches of the kingdom.

Generosity confronts our poverty mentality, changing the way we interact with the world. No longer anxious because we mistakenly believe provision is scarce, we are confident that God multiplies resources and is eager to rescue and prosper people.