Mission
To know Jesus Christ, and to serve Him in joyful obedience, and make him known by growing disciples, planting churches and renewing communities.
Story of Greentree Community Church
In 1996, a group of people began to pray about establishing a new church in the Kirkwood area. On January, 5, 1997, about 60 people met for Sunday morning worship at Westminster Christian Academy. and Greentree Community Church (GTCC) was born.
In January of 1999, Tom Ricks accepted the call to be the Pastor of GTCC. Under his leadership, Greentree has continued to grow wonderful ministries including Stephen Ministry, Good Sense, Students, Children, Extensions/Missions, Community Connections, Helps, Prayer, Counseling, Care, and Community Groups.
North Kirkwood Middle School (NKMS) has been our home on Sunday mornings. We have purposely chosen to worship in the Kirkwood schools. We love Kirkwood, and we want to be involved in the life of the community. What better place to do this than in one of our schools! We made a decision early that we wanted to invest the larger part of our resources into people and ministries. We enjoy a contemporary style of worship and a casual style of dress on Sunday mornings. Our worship times are at 9:00 am and 10:45 am, with a time for fellowship, donuts and coffee between the services. Childcare is provided during both services for babies through 3 years of age. Sunday morning classes are available for all ages at 9:00 am.
Motivated by a vision for making Jesus Christ known by planting churches, Greentree has been instrumental in the birth of new churches in Webster Groves (Riverside), Columbia, Missouri (The Crossing), and Boulder, Colorado (All Souls Church of Boulder). Lafayette Square in St. Louis City will be the location of our newest church plant. It is exciting to see God’s love for his people as he works to call them to himself. So we continue to set aside a portion of our budget for the beginnings of additional churches in the future.
Greentree Community Church, for many, is not only their spiritual family, but also their only family. We are not perfect people, but we are open to the Holy Spirit showing us and teaching us the way He wants us to change and grow. Greentree Community Church is comprised of sinners and saints who are dependent on the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. Spurred on by a love for Jesus Christ and for each other, we desire to be a church that welcomes and invites people to investigate the claims of Christ and to “know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that they too may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
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