The name Emmaus is taken from the New Testament story of two discouraged, grieving people who found hope in meeting a resurrected Jesus as they walked along the road together. The Bible tells us that their eyes were opened to a deeper understanding of who God is and of God’s love for them.

Since its beginning in 1964, people of all ages and walks of life have been meeting that same Jesus and discovering the hope he provides through the ministry of Emmaus. Today, we as a church are seeking to continue to walk together in that hope. Against a backdrop of relevant preaching and contemporary, variety-filled worship services, Emmaus offers a broad array of opportunities for spiritual growth through fellowship and service to one another.

Statement of Congregational Identity
Believing that God desires a relationship with us through his Son, Jesus Christ, we have found joy in a personal encounter with a gracious God who demonstrated His unconditional love through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. We endeavor to be an inviting, hospitable church. In our commitment to proclaiming the Bible as God’s inspired word of truth for the believing community, we understand that every believer is a priest, enjoying direct access to God through faith in Christ and the intercessory work of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the New Testament teaches that the Spirit endows God’s people with spiritual gifts for the building up of the body, and that God desires both men and women to use their gifts in all areas of the ministry of the church. We believe in the inestimable worth of every individual, and that we must strive always to understand another’s point of view in humility.

As a worshipping community, we celebrate the great variety of ways God can be praised through the gift of music. We believe that biblical worship sees God as the audience, each worshipper as a performer, and the pastor, musicians, and worship leaders as prompters of our corporate expression of worship.

In our 43 years of life as a church, we have come to understand Emmaus as a place of nurture and non-judgmental acceptance. We are best able to serve as vessels of God’s amazing grace when we remember our own brokenness and the healing God is doing in our lives. We recognize that in an increasingly busy world God calls us to a simplicity of lifestyle that we might be free to fulfill our shared ministry with Jesus in binding up the brokenhearted and meeting physical needs.

We also aspire to be a place where the difficult questions of life are not skirted, where faith is recognized as often being hard fought and where no sincere question of the seeker is off limits. Emmaus is sometimes described as being an “atypical” or “non-traditional” Baptist church. Traditions are cherished when found to be relevant to current needs, but we believe God is continually calling us to renewal and change, and to be welcoming of the "new wine" of our day.

Emmaus is a member of the Baptist General Conference