Who We Are

You’ll be greeted at the door. We’ll do our best to learn your name quickly. You won’t get lost at Acklen.

We enjoy traditional, acapella music sung from a songbook and led by a song leader.
Women are welcome to serve in all parts of the worship service and as deacons.
We pursue service in our community and around the world. That includes being partners with local non-profits and ministries along with some in Central America and Africa. From November to March, we are a host church for Room in the Inn.
We value children. We support parents as the primary spiritual nurturers of their children. For us, this means involving our children both in worship and acts of service.
We value our religious inheritance in the churches of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement and, more specifically, the Churches of Christ.
We value intergenerational community and seek to resist age segregation. We value times when all ages can listen to and learn from each other as they all pursue Christlikeness.
We have about 150 people in our church family with about 90-100 attending on Sundays. Acklen may be small, but we have a vibrant youth group and Sunday school classes for both adults and children.

We believe in the God who created the heavens and the earth, continues to sustain his creation, and will ultimately redeem it.

We believe Jesus Christ came to the earth as God in the flesh. We believe Jesus is the Messiah who died for our sins and conquered death and sin by rising from the grave.
We believe the Holy Spirit indwells God’s people, both individually and collectively as the church.
We believe God inspired the Bible, the story of God’s relationship with humanity. We believe the Bible is central for our life together as a church.
We believe God changes us to be more like Jesus. In baptism, God acts to forgive our sins and to empower us with the Holy Spirit. Baptism is an initiatory rite of passage into the kingdom community, which begins a lifelong journey of transformation into the image of God.
We believe God calls believers into the church, an outpost of his kingdom. We believe the church is a worshipping community united around the table of the Lord, nourished by its participation in the body of Christ, and anticipating his return.
We believe God calls all believers to service or ministry based on unique and specific God-given gifts empowered by the Spirit. We believe ministry is equally shared between all members of the body. We do call elders and deacons to serve the congregation through specific ministries of pastoral guidance and service.