About Us

Thanks for taking time to visit our Web site. We’ve put together these pages to help you get acquainted with our church family and, hopefully, to answer some questions you may have.

What are we about at the Church by the Glades? Good Question!

At the Church by the Glades we encourage people to fully commit to the adventure of following Christ.

If you truly want to know who we are, what we believe, and what we seek to do… let us simply draw attention to some of the key words in our purpose statement.

We encourage people — Ever leave church feeling a little down? Maybe you are beat up by the pastor’s teaching or put off by the worship style. Well, at the Church by the Glades you’ll find friendly smiling people who will gladly receive you. The music is upbeat, the message, positive and practical. Hey, we believe the message of the Bible is good news.

To fully commit — We teach and practice what the Bible calls "discipleship." It’s more than mere religion or just Sunday morning stuff. It is a wonderful, relevant "lifestyle" called Christianity.

To the adventure — Ever notice religion can be dull and boring, but meaningful relationships never are. What God wants from us is not religion but a relationship. Jesus didn’t teach His original disciples a religion. Rather, He loved them, trained them, commissioned them, and empowered them, and these disciples went out and changed the world! Jesus is still doing the same today. Now that’s an adventure.

of Following Christ — This is the most important part of our purpose statement. We strive to be totally Christ-centered at the Church by the Glades. We believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son and that His favorite thing to do is to radically and wonderfully transform lives.