WHO WE ARE

OuR STORY

Enjoying
God
Together

Just over 50 years ago, a handful of families from Evangelical Free Church Fullerton set out to plant a new church community in Yorba Linda, starting out in a school classroom. It wasn't long before they procured a lot on Richfield Road and began building what would become Evangelical Free Church Yorba Linda, and later, Richfield Community Church. Today, many of the children and grandchildren of those families still call this joy-filled community home.

We believe that God designed us for community and that He wants us to be happy, ultimately finding our joy in Himself. Because of this, we have made it our focus to build and foster joy-filled communities of faith where we explore more and more of who God is and enjoy Him together!

Our Mission:

We want to encourage people
to enjoy God together

OUR VALUES

WE FIND OUR 
GREATEST 
JOY IN JESUS

God designed us to be joyfully fulfilled and nothing will bring us more joy than a loving relationship with Jesus, now and forever.

Accurately seeing God for who He is and who we are in Him causes lives to be transformed. Getting this right is crucial, and God's Word is our perfect guide.

WHAT WE THINK 
ABOUT GOD 
MATTERS

WE HELP 
PEOPLE HELP 
PEOPLE

We want to find so much joy in pursuing Jesus that we can't help but give that same joy. It's the same system Jesus used.

God didn't give us intellect so we could park it at the door of faith. Our deepest questions, the nature of the Trinity, the weight of eternity, that raw ache of suffering aren't threats to belief...
they're invitations into it.

WE
CELEBRATE
QUESTIONS

WE EMBRACE INEVITABLE 
TENSIONS

The moments we realize that God is both understandable and incomprehensible, we find ourselves filled with awe and yet hungry for more.  A faith that wrestles with this tension is a faith that's alive, and we believe God honors the struggle.

Too many people walk away from their faith because they don't get a picture of Jesus that meets them where they are. That's why no matter how young or how old, we want everyone to keep growing closer to Jesus no matter what part of life they are in.

THIS IS
FOR 
LIFE

WE FIND OUR 
GREATEST 
JOY IN JESUS

God designed us to be joyfully fulfilled and nothing will bring us more joy than a loving relationship with Jesus, now and forever.

The correctly interpreted truth of scripture informs and shapes everything we are and do, both as individuals and as a church community.

WE ARE 
BIBLICALLY
SATURATED 

WE
CELEBRATE
QUESTIONS 

God didn't give us intellect so we could park it
at the door of faith. Our deepest questions,
the nature the Trinity, the weight of eternity,
that raw ache of suffering aren't threats
to belief, they're invitations into it.  

We see meaningful community as the greatest place for transformation.

WE ARE 
TRANSFORMED IN COMMUNITY

WE ARE
Culturally ENGAGED

We are committed to theologically, thoughtfully, and relationally engaging with the culture around us.

We are empowered, guided, and wholly dependent on the Holy Spirit of God, expressed through prayer and a posture of surrender.

WE ARE
HOLY SPIRIT
DEPENDENT

WE ARE
FULLY
COMMITTED

We recognize that the pursuit of joy in following Jesus is lifelong and affects every area of life.

OUR Vision

We are passionate about cultivating communities
of joy-filled disciples of Jesus Christ who
inspire others to treasure Him.

What makes a Disciple?

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A Deepening Relationship with God: learning to love, trust and obey Him more fully.

R2

Life-Changing Relationships with Other Believers; growing together through encouragement, accountability, and shared mission.

R3

An Engaging Relationship with Those Yet to Believe: embodying the love of Christ and sharing His hope with the world.

What makes a Disciple?

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A Deepening Relationship with God: learning to love, trust and obey Him more fully.

R1

A Deepening Relationship with God: learning to love, trust and obey Him more fully.

R1

A Deepening Relationship with God: learning to love, trust and obey Him more fully.

R1

A Deepening Relationship with God: learning to love, trust and obey Him more fully.

R1

A Deepening Relationship with God: learning to love, trust and obey Him more fully.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

GOD

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

THE BIBLE

We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

THE HUMAN CONDITION

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted bySatan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated fromGod, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

JESUS

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one person in two natures.  Jesus, Israels promised Messiah, was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and advocate.

THE WORK OF CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect and all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for our salvation.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

THE CHURCH

We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

CHRISTIAN LIVING

We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out ourfaith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. WithGod’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

CHRIST'S RETURN

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

OUR RESPONSE & ETERNAL DESTINY

We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning toHim in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.

GOD

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

THE BIBLE

We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

THE HUMAN CONDITION

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated fromGod, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

THE WORK OF CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the crossas the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

THE CHURCH

We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

CHRISTIAN LIVING

We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out ourfaith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. WithGod’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

CHRIST'S RETURN

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

OUR RESPONSE & ETERNAL DESTINY

We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.

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Statement of Faith