About Us

Curious about who we are and what we believe? Take a moment to learn more about our heart, our mission, and what makes Vibrant Church, well… vibrant.

Our Vision

We are a family of faith, restoring hope in the hearts of our community!

Our Mission

The mission of Vibrant Church is to love people to life one person at a time!

Pastor Mark

Pastor Mark has been an attender of Vibrant church since 1984. His life changed after multiple encounters with God, including a transformational moment seeing into the Heavens and into Hell. As a result Pastor Mark now has a deep desire for all to come to the knowledge and saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Pastor Mark has been serving the Lord through various ministries within the church over the years.

In 2000, God called Pastor Mark into the prison ministry to serve as a volunteer Pastor/ Chaplin inside the Vermont Department of Corrections, where he remained for 19 years of ministry.

Recently, Pastor Mark served at the church in Cambridge, Vermont. Since 2021, He has moved ahead to follow the call to now serves here at Vibrant Church!

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Tenets of Faith

This Assembly accepts and adopts the Statement of Fundamental Truths approved by the General Council of the Assembly of God. We believe that the Bible is our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. Hence, this statement of Fundamental Truths is intended as a basis of fellowship among us (i.e., that we all speak the same thing, I Cor. 1:10; Acts 2:42). The human phraseology in such statement is not inspired nor contended for, but the truth set forth is held to be essential to a Full-Gospel ministry. No claim is made that it contains all truth in the Bible, only that it covers our present needs as to these fundamental matters.

1. The Scriptures Inspired

The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and

are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct

(II Tim. 3:15-17; I Thess. 2:13; II Peter 1:20-21)

2. The One True God

The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent “I AM”, the

Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Ghost (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10, 11; Matt. 28:19; Luke 3:22).

3. The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The Scriptures declare:

His virgin birth (Matt. 1:23; Luke 1:31, 35).
His sinless life (Heb. 7:26; I Peter 2:22).

His miracles (Acts 2:22; 10:38).

His substitutionary work on the cross (I Cor. 15:3; II Cor. 5:21)

His bodily resurrection from the dead (Matt. 28:6; Luke 24:39; I Cor. 15:4).

His exaltation to the right hand of God (Acts 1:9, 11; 2:33; Phil. 2:9-11; Heb. 1:1-3).

4. The Fall of Man

Man was created good and upright, for God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” However, man by voluntary transgression fell, and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God (Gen. 1:26, 27; 2:17; 3:6; Rom. 5:12-19).

5. The Salvation of Man

Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Conditions to Salvation

Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God according to the hope of eternal life (Luke 24:45-47; John 3:3; Rom. 10:13-15; Eph. 2:8; Titus 2:11; 3:5-7).

The Evidences of Salvation

The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit (Rom. 8:16). The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness (Eph. 4:24; Titus 2:12).

6. The Ordinances of the Church

Baptism in Water

The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in Scripture. All who repent and believe in Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:16; Acts 10:47, 48; Romans 6:4).

Holy Communion

The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements of bread and the fruit of the vine, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (II Peter 1:4); a memorial of His suffering and death (I Cor. 11:26); and a prophecy of His second coming (I Cor. 11:26); and is enjoined on all believers “til He come!”

7. The Baptism in the Holy Ghost

All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service and the bestowal of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4-8; I Cor. 12:1-31). This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of new birth (Acts 8:12-17; 10:44-46; 11:14-16; 15:7-9). With the baptism in the Holy Ghost comes such experiences as an overflowing fullness of the Spirit (John 7:37-39; Acts 4:80, a deepened reverence for God (Acts 2:43; Heb. 12:28, an intensified consecration to God and dedication to His work (Acts 2:42), and a more active love for Christ, for His Word and for the lost (Mark 16:20).

8. The Evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Ghost

The baptism of believers in the Holy Ghost is witnessed by the initial physical sign

of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance (Acts 2:4). The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues (I Cor.

12:4-10, 28), but different in purpose and use.

9. Sanctification

Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil and of dedication unto God (Rom. 12:1,2; I Thess. 5:23; Heb. 13:12). The Scriptures teach a life of “holiness without which no man shall see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14). By the power of the Holy Ghost we are able to obey the command: “Be ye holy, for I am holy” (I Peter 1:15,16).

Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in His death and resurrection and by faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 6: 1-11, 13; 8:1, 2, 13; Gal. 2:20; Phil. 2:12, 13; I Pet. 1:5).

10. The Church and Its Mission

The church is the body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of her great commission. Each believer born of the Spirit is an integral part of the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn which are written in heaven (Eph. 1:22-23; 2:22; Heb. 12:23).

Since God’s purpose concerning man is to seek and to save those who are lost, to be worshipped by man and to build a body of believers in the image of His Son, the priority reason for being of the Assemblies of God as part of the Church is:

To be an agency of God for evangelizing the world (Acts 1:8; Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).
To be a corporate body in which man may worship God (I Cor. 12:13).
To be a channel of God’s purpose to build a body of saints being perfected in the image of His Son (Eph. 4:11-16; I Cor. 12:18; I Cor. 14:12).

The Assemblies of God exists expressly to give continuing emphasis to this reason-for-being in the New Testament apostolic pattern by teaching and encouraging believers to be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

This experience:

Enables them to evangelize in the power of the Spirit with accompanying supernatural signs (Mark 16:15-20; Acts 4:29-31; Heb. 2:3-4).
Adds a necessary dimension to worshipful relationship with God (I Cor. 12, 13, 14).

Enables them to respond to the full working of the Holy Spirit in expression of the fruit and gifts and ministries as in New Testament times for the edifying of the body of Christ (Gal. 5:22-26; I Cor. 14:12; Eph. 4:11-12; I Cor. 12:28; Col. 1:29).

11. The Ministry

A divinely called and Scripturally ordained ministry has been provided by our Lord for a three-fold purpose of leading the church in: (1) Evangelization of the world (Mark 16:15-20); (2) Worship of God (John 4:23-24); and (3) Building a body of saints being perfected in the image of His Son (Eph. 4:11-16).

12. Divine Healing

Divine healing is an integral part of the Gospel. Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the Atonement and is the privilege of all believers (Isa. 53:4-5; Matt. 8:16, 17; James 5:14-16).

13. The Blessed Hope

The resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and their translation, together with those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, is the imminent and blessed hope of the church (I Thess. 4:16, 17; Rom. 8:23; Titus 2:13; I Cor. 15:51-52).

14. The Millennial Reign of Christ

The second coming of Christ includes the rapture of the saints, which is our blessed hope, followed by the visible return of Christ with His saints to reign on earth for one thousand years (Zech. 14:5; Matt. 24:27-30; Rev. 1:7; 19:11-14; 20:1-6). The millenial reign will bring the salvation of national Israel (Ezek. 37:21-22; Zeph. 3:19-20; Rom. 11:26-27) and the establishment of universal peace (Isa. 11:6-9; Psalms 72: 3-8; Micah 4:3-4).

15. The Final Judgment

There will be a final judgment in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works. Whosoever is not found written in the Book of Life together with the devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet will be consigned to everlasting punishment in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Matt. 25:46; Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 19:20; 20:11-15; 21:8).

16. The New Heaven and the New Earth

“We, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness” (II Peter 3:13; Rev. 21:1 – 22:5).