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Mission Statement
Mid-Valley
Fellowship is a local Christian organization that presents a message of
hope and healing for those struggling with sexual brokenness. We minister
to individuals, churches, and those facing the reality of a spouse, family
member, or friend impacted by sexual brokenness.
Mid-Valley
Fellowship is a non-profit, interdenominational ministry, serving the
Central Willamette Valley (Albany, Corvallis, Eugene, and Salem). We are
not a mental health facility. Instead, our methodology utilizes personal
testimonies, trained lay counseling, Biblical instruction, and
Christ-centered accountability groups.
We offer a
choice to those who struggle with sexual identity issues. We support no
political agendas or candidates. We firmly believe that sexual and
relational redemption is available for all who seek it.
Mid-Valley
Fellowship upholds heterosexuality and sexual fulfillment within the
confines of marriage as God’s creative intent for humanity. Accordingly,
we view homosexual expression and non-marital sexual activity as outside
of God’s intent. We recognize homosexual tendencies and sexually addictive
behaviors as disorders that beset fallen humanity, among many others.
Choosing to
resolve homosexual tendencies through homosexual behavior, taking on a
homosexual identity, and involvement in a homosexual lifestyle is
considered destructive, as it distorts God’s intent for the individual and
is therefore sinful. Likewise, choosing to resolve a desire for intimacy
through sexual activity outside of marriage is considered destructive, as
it distorts God’s intent for the individual and is therefore sinful.
Unfortunately, neither of the two most common responses to the issue of
sexual brokenness truly resolves the conflict. The first is to condemn the
sexually broken out of fear, ignorance, and self-righteousness. The second
is the unqualified validation of the individual and his or her lifestyle
choices.
Instead, we
believe that Christ offers a truly healing alternative to sexual
brokenness. Mid-Valley Fellowship upholds redemption for the sexually
broken person as the process whereby sin’s power is broken. The individual
is freed to know and experience true identity as discovered in Christ and
His Church, and that process entails the freedom to grow into sexual
wholeness.
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