Salem has a rich and steady history of being built on truth, love, service, and community. Our mission is to be a people living lives of love with God, in community, and on mission. Over the last couple of years, our elders have been prayerfully seeking God’s vision for what that will look like, specifically.
The church is designed, and needs to be, a community of people who are united around a clear vision of the real person, works and mission of Jesus in the real context of the world that they live in. For forty years, Salem has been a resilient church that has deeply rooted people of all ages in God’s eternal story. In our next chapter, we are seeking to become a people who are moved to bring God’s story to life in today’s culture. Therefore, in preparation of our 50th anniversary,
By October 2029, we will build and support a disciple-multiplying culture that launches 500+ disciples from salem into our city and the world to boldly build God’s kingdom starting where we live, work, study, and play.
Gospel connections need gospel commissions. What would happen if we all shared and acted on that same vision? Imagine the impact in people’s lives throughout our city! Not just in one workplace, one school, or one neighborhood, but everywhere! When you think about it, this is God’s vision for Fargo/Moorhead through Salem.
Let’s assume that each person at Salem has a minimum of three meaningful interactions with someone else each day. Currently, there are around 1000 people (adults, youth, kids) who call Salem home. If 500 of them are having three meaningful interactions a day (hopefully conversations), instead of having a single point of impact (at our church building) we would have at least 1,500 points of contact each day (through our church community). That’s 45,000 a month, and over half of a million points of gospel-contact in a year!
