Who We Are

To make a long story short: A group of friends started searching for more of the Holy Spirit, which resulted in the birth of a cell group and soon they needed a pastor. On 7 February 1982, this cell group was officially introduced as an independent fellowship of Hatfield Christian Church. Under the caring leadership of Pastor Edward and Dalene Gibbens, this little church grew and was renamed to River of Life Family Church on 3 August 2003, just after we turned 21. By the wonderful grace of God, we’ve been going strong ever since. In 2015, Pastor Craig and Camille Wucherpfennig assumed the senior leadership role.

We trust to be a church where all people experience the love and life of Jesus, a church where people are changed by this love and life and are empowered to share it with everyone in their daily lives, ultimately creating a community of love.

Our Values

God First

  • We place God first – Father, Son and Holy Spirit
  • We believe the Bible as the inspired Word of God. It provides direction and the standard by which we practice our faith.
  • We desire the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit in every aspect of our lives.
  • We believe that every believer should have a personal relationship with God and know His presence in their lives.

Because of God

  • We Love. From His love we respond in love toward God and people.
  • We welcome and value all people. We seek to provide holistic ministry to all people with the Bible as our standard.
  • We live connected. Everyone should find a place where they belong and feel safe.
  • We serve.

Our Behaviour Should Follow Our Values

We value character before gifting. 

Meet the Pastors

As a team, we hope to be the kind of shepherds that tend, nurture, guard and guide God’s flock willingly and cheerfully in truth, with love, integrity, and a humble heart.

Craig and Camille Wucherpfennig (Senior Pastors)

Mark & Jonelda Pringle (Youth Pastors)

 

Statement of Faith
  1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired of God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
  2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
  3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
  4. We believe that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in the cases of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgression involving personal guilt.
  5. We believe in the principle of heterosexual relationships between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of lawful matrimony.
  6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
  7. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
  8. We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
  9. We believe that all who repent of their sin and receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
  10. We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
  11. We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and the eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
  12. We believe that elders carry the responsibility for oversight and care of the staff and members. Where necessary elders must carry out biblical discipline for the protection of the local church.
  13. We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this and that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of Church membership.
  14. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances – Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper – to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith; that Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Saviour’s broken body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes.
  15. We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
  16. We believe the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation.
  17. The Church is open to any further truth, which the Holy Spirit may illuminate from the Scriptures.

 

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