Our Lead Pastors
Ps. STEVE & ROWENA PARRISH
Steve and Rowena met at Faith Bible College International in Charleston, Maine, where they graduated in 1988 with Bachelor’s Degrees in Theological Studies and minors in Pastoral Theology. They were married in October that same year and began their ministry as youth and associate pastors.
After arriving in arriving in the Pacific Northwest in 1995, they transitioned as lead pastors in a denominational church in Vancouver in 2002 and became immersed in the world of church planting, property development, multi-site and regional church leadership.
In 2011, Steve and Rowena left denominational ministry to launch Elevate Church in Clark County, WA. In 2018, their team joined C3 Global as C3 Church Southwest Washington.
Steve and Rowena have three adult children and three grandchildren that are all part of the local church family. Rowena has a decade of experience in a local non-profit that focused on childhood education for families in distress. Together they have spent 25 years navigating the construction and real estate industries developing, building, remodelling, buying, selling and managing everything from raw land to residential and commercial properties, AIRbnb and tiny homes on wheels.
We Believe
We live by our convictions, the core values that make us who we are. The Bible is our guide to life, not only because it is good, but because it is true.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existing as three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We believe in God the Father, the Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, all things visible and invisible.
We believe that God the Son, Jesus Christ, is Lord. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His victorious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, His constant intercession for His people and in His imminent return and everlasting reign.
We believe in God, the Holy Spirit, who is God’s presence and power on the earth. He reveals Christ to people. He inhabits and transforms the lives of believers. We believe in His ongoing role to empower the Christian life.
We believe in the existence of an unseen spiritual realm and beings, including the great enemy of God and man, Satan, who led a rebellion against God and wars against Him and mankind to this day. We believe Christ has triumphed over darkness and this victory will be seen into eternity.
We believe that on account of sin, all people are spiritually lost and in need of salvation, which God gives by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ. We affirm the resurrection of the dead, both the saved and the lost, the first to everlasting life and the latter to everlasting separation from God.
We believe that the Bible is the infallible Word of God, living and active. It is God’s revelation to humanity, inspired by the Holy Spirit. It is authoritative, timeless truth and is the foundation of all Christian doctrine.
We believe that Christian marriage was established by God, confirmed by Jesus, and is between a man and a woman. We believe that sex is a gift from God designed for intimacy and procreation within marriage.
We believe that the church is the body of Christ. We believe that God’s people are to regularly gather to worship, to pray, to receive teaching from the Word of God and Communion.
We are a Pentecostal movement. We believe in the operation of spiritual gifts, which are given to believers for the upbuilding of the church. This includes the gift of tongues. We believe that all Christians can expect to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and can experience being filled with the Holy Spirit on innumerable occasions.
our mission
Our Mission is to welcome the Presence of God in our gatherings so everyone can BELIEVE His Word, be drawn together to BELONG in His Family and be equipped to BECOME the Best version of US we were created to be.
Our Declaration
WE DECLARE THAT God has MORE.
MORE for me. MORE for you. MORE for us. MORE through us for them!
We will not wait for MORE to show up.
INSTEAD, we are actively STRETCHING for MORE BECAUSE THAT is the catalyst that unlocks the MORE that He has.
As We do our part, WE KNOW THAT God will ABSOLUTELY do His!
we are stretching for MORE, because that is who God is.
God is the God of MORE
OUR CULTURE
the church is our FAMILY.
the KINGDOM is our foundation.
PRAYER is our arsenal.
the WORD is our weaponry.
The SPIRIT is our source.
FAITH is our posture.
TRANSFORMATION is our expectation.
GENEROSITY is our response.
LOVE is our tone.
FUN is our flavor.
Our C3 global Family
C3 Church in Southwest Washington is part of the the C3 (Christian City Church) Global Family, the byproduct of the church planting vision of Pastors Phil & Chris Pringle that began in Sydney Australia in 1980 with 12 people on an Easter Sunday. Today the C3 Global Family has grown to over 500 churches in 64 countries that all function with a similar message, values, and culture. For more information about C3 Global, CLICK HERE. For more information about C3 Churches in America, CLICK HERE. Visit the Global YouTube Channel, CLICK HERE