About Foothills Fellowship
Our Mission
BE the church where we are.
BUILD the church where it is weak.
BECOME the church where it is not.
Our Strategy
We will BE the church where we are by…
- Being devoted to the Lord and His Word.
- Being devoted to biblically ordering our homes and church.
- Being devoted to one another.
- Being devoted to life-on-life, relationally intensive disciple-making.
- Being devoted to reproducing ourselves cross culturally.
We will BUILD the church where it is weak by…
- Being the church where we are so that we can build up other believers where they are spiritually weak.
We will BECOME the church where it is not by…
- Making disciples and establishing church communities primarily among unreached people groups.
Our History
In 1974, veteran missionary to the Philippines, Dr. Don Benson and his wife, Alice, knelt on a vacant, cactus covered lot and prayed for the birth of a church in the growing northeast heights neighborhood. The church first met in a home, then a pre-school and, finally, in their own building completed in 1976. At that time the church was accepted into fellowship with the Conservative Baptist Association of America. By the mid 90’s, the congregation outgrew the multiple-service capacity of its original facility and began seeking space solutions. In spring of 2001, we moved into our present facility on Tramway and Candelaria. We also purchased the adjacent building, making it our children's building. The church supports mission work through CBInternational in Japan and is aggressively pursuing m aking disciples and establishing church communities among unreached people groups in Southeast Asia and North Africa.
Statement of Faith
Foothills Fellowship
1. We believe the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired Word of God, without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for the salvation of men, and the divine and final authority for all Christian faith and life. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
2. We believe in one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:1; John 10:30; John 16:12-15; Matthew 28:19)
3. We believe that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. (Luke 1:35; Romans 1:3-4; John 3:16)
4. We believe that man, created in the image of God, sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners. (Romans 1:18-20; Romans 3:9-23)
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified by His shed blood. (Hebrews 9:28; 1 Peter 1:18-20; 1 Peter 3:18; Romans 5:12-21)
6. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, His ascension into heaven, and His present life there for us, as High Priest and Advocate. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Hebrews 7:21, 25)
7. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. (John 3:3-18; Romans 10:9)
8. We believe that the true church is composed of all such persons who, through saving faith in Jesus Christ, have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ of which He is the Head. (1 Corinthians 12:12-13)
9. We believe in baptism by immersion of a believer in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in testimony of his faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Christ, and in confession that he is dead to sin and risen in newness of life in Christ Jesus; and that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of the Lord’s death “till he comes.” (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 8:38; Romans 6:1-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-31)
10. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust; of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord; of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting punishment. (1 Thessalonians 4:15, 16; John 5:28,29; John 14:1-6; Revelation 20:4-6; 2 Thessalonians 1:8,9)
11. We believe in the personal and premillennial coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and that this “Blessed Hope” has a vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer. (1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Acts 1:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 John 3:1-3)