The Water’s Edge Network
God measures His church by how many we send, not by how many we seat. We focus on a God who desires Hope and Life for all of His children.
We live out this mission by being
We focus upward, deepening our relationship with Him. We focus inward, developing relationships with each other where care, challenge, and celebration are common. We also focus outward, pursuing opportunities to holistically care for the needs of our world.
We are churches committed to developing personal and corporate habits for a dynamic relationship with God. We emphasize prayer and the study of the Scriptures as critical habits that help us discern the plans and purposes of God for our lives.
We are churches eagerly desiring to cultivate relationships where care, challenge and celebration occur. We emphasize living life as one faith family in the all-together (corporate worship) and the small together (small groups).
We are churches that pursue opportunities to holistically care for the needs of our world. As the universal Church, we are called to actively participate in the mission of God.
The Kingdom
As Kingdom-driven churches we exist to usher in the rule and reign of God on earth as it is in heaven.
Jesus taught us to pray for exactly that: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10, NASB).
Our Gospel mission is a great commission because God’s rule pushes back evil.
We see five primary ways this evil is expressed. We call them the Five Global Giants.
AMPED
A uniting feature of our network strategy is the commitment to address the Five Global Giants through a philosophy we have named AMPED.
Giant: spiritual emptiness
Reproducing churches that promote reconciliation with God and each other.
Giant: self-serving leadership
The church to see the kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
Giant: disease
Healing for the sick.
Giant: multi-faceted illiteracy
The next generation.
Giant: poverty and injustice
The poor and vulnerable.
Scripture for the fight
Each part of AMPED answers a giant with the Word of God. Verses are from the NASB.
Accelerate · Spiritual emptiness
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Mobilize · Self-serving leadership
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
Provide · Disease
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give.
Educate · Illiteracy
We will not conceal them from their children, But tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.
Defend · Poverty and injustice
Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
Every giant
…for the battle is the LORD’S and He will give you into our hands.
Water’s Edge Missions
Water’s Edge Missions exists to Amplify the Hope and Life of Jesus around the world by empowering local people to reach the lost and least in their communities.
goes directly to empowering local believers to reach the lost and least
Straight answers
We passionately believe that God measures His church by how many we send, not by how many we seat. As the universal Church, we are called to actively participate in the mission of God.
A family of campus churches. The network prioritizes the work that God is doing in and through each of them.
Our network strategy for the Five Global Giants: Accelerate, Mobilize, Provide, Educate, and Defend.
100% of the investment into Water’s Edge Missions goes directly to empowering local believers to reach the lost and least in their communities.
God measures His church by how many we send. Be one of them.
