Our Story

In 2001, Grace Mennonite Brethren Church began as a group of 40 people who loved God, cared for each other, and wanted to see the KW community meet and follow Jesus.

In 2012, Radiant City Church began as a group of 31 people who loved God and moved into specific under-resourced KW neighbourhoods with prayer, presence, and a desire for people to meet and follow Jesus.

Through a series of God arranged events, during the Fall of 2021, our two churches began to meet together on Sundays and in the Fall of 2022 followed God’s direction to become one group of people who would be better together, caring for each other, and reaching out to the people of KW. And Belmont Village Church was born!

God is still writing His story…

Belmont Village Church is a community of people who exist for the glory of God, to shine light on the greatness of God in everything but what we want to say is that we're all about Jesus -- we'd much rather you be impressed with Him than with anyone else.

 Following the life and teachings of Jesus, we find our identity and life rhythm in Who God is and What He does, therefore we focus on two things:

Identity (Who we are)

We are a family of missionaries and disciples of Jesus sent by God to organize our lives around both individual missions (neighbourhood, school, workplace, etc.) and around common missions: specific neighbourhoods of people, networks of people, or marginalized groups of people. In order to share that common mission, we form groups called: Missional Families - a family of missionary servant learners - integrating church with life.

Rhythm (How we live)

We want to be the Church all the time instead of going to church some of the time.  Everyone lives life.  We choose to reorient our lives for others by living out the gospel in real and tangible expressions.  As we eat and play and celebrate and struggle and journey together, we listen to our stories and find our place in God’s great story.

 

We invite any Jesus follower to “come and see” in the words of Jesus, to explore the mission by joining a DMC Group and to journey together in this missional life.

The ways that we try to "make disciples" and positively provoke "missional people:"

  • Meet with people who are a "team together" organized around a common mission. None of us are outsider because we're all insiders to God.

  • Meet weekly with people who come from and live in their own individual neighbourhoods and are figuring out what moving into their own neighbours' lives looks like, ie. becoming missionaries where you already live.

The bottom line is that we passionately believe God has called us to call believers in Jesus to a high standard of seeing the mission of bringing glory to God by making disciples as a core mission of one's life. What happens on Sunday contributes greatly to that vision but what happens in community with others is where it gets fleshed out in the every day of real life living.