ABOUT US
Everyone needs a great church close to home!
If your heart beats faster when you see this.
If you’re curious about how church or faith fits into your life.
If you’re looking for a church that meets people at the intersections of faith and real life.
We’re a great church for you.
OUR MISSION
We exist to help people, no matter where they are in their faith journey, experience Christ, and follow him into a life of meaning, purpose, and fullness of life.
OUR VISION PRAYER
O God, with all our hearts, we long for you. Come, transform us to be Christ-centred, Spirit-empowered, Mission-focused people, multiplying disciples everywhere.
LOVING LOCAL
As a church, we love to serve and partner with others who serve the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of our neighbours through real and practical ways. Our commitment to love local focuses on mobilizing our church community and partnering with local organizations that are caring for our community well. This is how we share a good news gospel to people in need within this community we love.
REACHING GLOBAL
The Alliance Canada was built on the foundation of one of the great sending statements of Jesus, "go and make disciples of all nations" (Matthew 28:19). Since the beginning, Cobourg Alliance Church has supported international workers in this global mission to share the love of God in the person of Jesus. We believe strong partnerships allow us to have the most significant global impact.
“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” ~ Jesus
OUR STAFF TEAM
Paul Hewgill, Chair
Paul Chandler, Vice Chair
Janice Buck
Steve Cooper
Marshall Davis
Rick Riley
OUR STORY
DEEP ROOTS AND A FAITHFUL VISION
The first planning meeting of Cobourg Alliance took place on June 20th, 1955, at a picnic table in Victoria Park. Services began a month later at what was then the Lions Club Scout Hall at the corner of Ontario and University Streets. The church obtained some adjacent property and, in January 1961, opened its own building at 388 William Street. Then in 1989, for one year, services were held in Cobourg Collegiate while constructing the present building at 1333 Ontario Street, which opened in the fall of 1990 along with the Alliance Family Centre preschool and daycare.
The move to the high school also marked what was then a turning point for Cobourg Alliance, transitioning from a traditional church format to a more creative and contextual church environment, incorporating modern music, creative arts, and teaching relevant to real-life issues.
Coming out of covid has changed what real life looks like, for many, as we've been forced to rethink what's important and why. Over the past couple years, we have watched our community embrace the unknown as we rethink, relearn, and renew the values that have shaped our history. In the last couple years we've seen new groups emerge, acts of kindness and compassion initiated and heard new stories being shared. What we’ve all been through has made us more human but no less hopeful. The life and message of Jesus continues to speak to people all over our community and region, and we love being a part of their stories.
OUR BELIEFS
A.B. Simpson founded two organizations in 1887: The Christian Alliance and The Missionary Alliance. One was a network of Christians joining together for the support of missions and the other was the missionary sending agency. Ten years later the two organizations merged as The Christian and Missionary Alliance. Today the C&MA has grown to be a worldwide missionary movement of 2.5 million people in 17,000 churches in 61 countries.
The Alliance Canada continues to be a meeting place for people from many denominational backgrounds and has a strong desire to share the love of Christ with others who do not know Him.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
What we believe about Jesus, the Bible, and the Church
Our Statement of Faith identifies the core beliefs of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
There is one God, who is infinitely perfect, existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ is true God and true man. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died upon the cross, the just for the unjust, as a substitutionary sacrifice, and all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. He rose from the dead according to the Scriptures and is now at the right hand of God interceding on our behalf.
The Holy Spirit is a divine person, sent to indwell, guide, teach and empower the follower of Jesus, and to convince the world of sin, or righteousness and of judgment.
The Old and New Testaments, inerrant as originally given, were verbally inspired by God and are a complete revelation of His will for the salvation of people. They constitute the divine and only rule of Christian faith and practice.
Humankind, originally created in the image and likeness of God, fell through disobedience, incurring thereby both physical and spiritual death. All people are born with a sinful nature, are separated from the life of God, and can be saved only through the atoning work of Jesus. The destiny of the unbelieving is existence forever in conscious torment, but that of the believer is everlasting joy in the presence of God.
Salvation has been provided only through Jesus Christ. Those who repent and believe in Him are united with Christ through the Holy Spirit and are thereby regenerated (born again), justified, sanctified and granted the gift of eternal life as adopted children of God.
It is the will of God that in union with Christ each believer should be sanctified thoroughly thereby being separated from sin and the world and fully dedicated to God, receiving power for holy living and sacrificial and effective service toward the completion of Christ’s commission. This is accomplished through being filled with the Holy Spirit which is both a distinct event and progressive experience in the life of the believer.
Provision is made in the redemptive work of Jesus for the healing of the body. Prayer for the sick and anointing with oil as taught in the Scriptures are privileges for the Church in this present age.
The universal Church, of which Christ is the Head, consists of all those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, are redeemed through His blood, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and commissioned by Christ to go into all the world as witness, preaching the Gospel to all nations. The local church, the visible expression of the universal Church, is a body of believers in Christ who are joined together to worship God, to observe the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to pray, to be edified through the Word of God, to fellowship, and to testify in word and deed to the good news of salvation both locally and globally. The local church enters into relationships with other like-minded churches for accountability, encouragement and mission.
There will be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust; for the former, a resurrection unto life, for the latter, a resurrection unto judgment.
The second coming of Jesus is imminent and will be personal and visible. As the believer’s blessed hope, this vital truth is an incentive for holy living and sacrificial service toward the completion of Christ’s commission.
Taken and adapted from the statement of faith from The Alliance Canada website.
To learn more about The Alliance Canada, visit www.cmacan.org.