About Oaks Church
A Christ-centered community rooted in faith, growing together
Our Founding Pastors
Joel & Jennifer Scrivner
Joel & Jennifer Scrivner have a heart to reach our city and beyond with the life transforming message of Jesus. Joel is also a 4X world champion martial artist & founder of WINology. They have two daughters, Sydney and Blakely.
Welcome to Oaks Church
Get to know who we are and what we're about
Core Values
Encounter
Our primary focus is leading people to a personal encounter with the Living God. We provide engaging experiences that provoke individuals to find relationship with Him and perpetually dig deeper into His presence. We teach how to hear & know God's voice and to have the courage to bravely follow & obey Him on their personal faith journey.
Grow
We provide educational classes & leadership development programs that help our members learn & grow to be the most powerful and influential people they can be. We have an obligation as Christ's followers to continually improve & develop personally in order to honor Him with our best.
Align
Relationship with God & relationship with His family are the most important factors in Jesus' greatest commandment. We provide opportunities through small groups & organized functions to help members align with great people and build meaningful relationships. This is where we sharpen one another, learn transparency & healing, and release true freedom into each others lives. We are simply better together.
Give
We're raising up leaders that give the best of themselves to God & their community. We uphold a culture of generosity demonstrated by Jesus and look for every opportunity to give with our finances, our time, and our lives. Our calling is to be the light of the world & a city on a hill. We seek to serve our families, our realms of influence, and the world around us at all times and with all we have.
Core Scripture
Isaiah 61
1The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
2to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
3and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
4They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations.
5Strangers will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
6And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.
7Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours.
8“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.
9Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.”
10I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
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