Who Are We?

We are a brand new church with a mission to be a visible presence of Jesus in the Cowichan Valley.

One of our key focuses is to reach families for Jesus.

Why "Valley Church"?

When we heard from people in the Cowichan area that there needed to be a new church there that will contend for the valley, the word ”valley” was repeated so many times. This got us thinking that maybe the name “Valley” would be a good idea.

From there, an analogy started to surface. The analogy that came to mind was how often we as people are always looking for a mountaintop experience in our faith journey. Though the mountaintop experience is desirable, it is in the valley where we wrestle through the hard stuff. It’s in the valley where the land is fertile and full of growth, and it is in the valley of life where we find ourselves most often. It is in the valley when often we have lost hope and can’t see what’s outside of ourselves… but Jesus meets us there! Jesus meets us and brings us hope and promises to never leave us. It became pretty clear that we want to be a people that exemplify this metaphor.

The Story

Here is the story of how Valley Church started! It was birthed out of prayer and several people who were following the Spirit of God and noticing signs of God putting the Cowichan Valley on people’s hearts. People describe what was happening as ’inevitable’ and like ’riding a wave that we have no choice but to follow’. This was both exciting and a huge faith step as people committed to starting this new work in the Cowichan Valley. Below is a video created for our first birthday, sharing the story of our beginning and hearing from some of our people.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

We are affiliated through The Fellowship and adhere to their statement of faith. We are a church plant in partnership with Feb Pacific and SouthRidge Fellowship in Langley, BC, Canada. Read our statement of faith here.

Values & Promises: Culture shapers