WE ARE A PEOPLE MARKED BY GRACE.
Grace declares that God's love for you is complete, unchanging and unconditional. You are accepted just as you are! (Romans 5:1-2) Whether you do well or badly, sin or stay pure, you are completely accepted because of the righteousness of Jesus that has been given to you. You can't improve God's love for you. You can't reduce God's love for you. Grace makes for motivated, inspired Christians serving God and each other out of delight and joy, and not out of fear or bondage!

WE ARE A PEOPLE OF THE POWER AND PRESENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Christians are not those who simply agree to a creed or intellectually ascent to a set of doctrines, but those who have been, and continue to be, "filled with the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18). In addition, we are "being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit" (Ephesians 2:22). Therefore, as a community of the Spirit, we experience His presence and expect His power to be demonstrated among us through the "gifts of the Spirit" (Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:1-14:40, 1 Peter 4:10-11) "for the strengthening of the church" (1 Corinthians 14:26) "so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 4:11).

WE LIVE MISSIONALLY.
Jesus has called us to co-labor with him in reaching every tribe and tongue. (Matthew 28:18-20) This starts right where you are; in you're job, in your neighborhood, in your household. We are people who serve, share, give, proclaim, and demonstrate. We are all on a mission.

WE ARE SUBMITTED.
Not the most popular word these days, but submission defines the Christian. At the center of Jesus' ministry was His willingness to submit to the Father. (John 5:19, John 8:28) Jesus lived the ultimate life and he was our model. We live submitted to the Father and to others.

WE LIVE TO GLORIFY GOD.
Glorifying God is what we were created to do. (Isaiah 43:7) We join with God himself in magnifying His glory in all the earth by delighting in Him above all earthly things.

WE WORK IN TEAM.
Jesus has given various gifted leaders to serve His church as a team. Our desire is to honor the gifting that God has given people and to work in team to build the church. Working in team also allows the church to give away its leadership to serve other churches and church plants because the church's leadership is not dependent on one guy. So from pastoring to making coffee, we believe all areas of life should be done in team.

WE RECEIVE APOSTOLIC AND PROPHETIC MINISTRY.
Ephesians 2 says that the church is built ultimately on Jesus Christ, through the foundation laid by apostles and prophets. This refers not only to the original work of Jesus' 12 disciples, but also to ongoing need for local churches to be influenced by apostolic and prophetic ministry in shaping its fundamental values. For instance, Paul worked hard to lay good foundations in new churches and to correct and encourage more established churches. Receiving apostolic and prophetic ministry helps us to keep the Gospel the main thing. Ephesians 4 explains that the ascended Christ gave gifts to the church including apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor/teachers. The specified reason for this is so that they can "prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of he Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of fullness of Christ." UNTIL is the key word. It is clear that the church has not yet arrived at the place of maturity spoken of in the verse. Therefore, these five gifts are still given for the purpose of helping the church become mature.

WE LOVE THE BIBLE.
We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing are fully inspired by God and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life. As a church we long to know and live God's word more and more.

WE WORSHIP AND PRAY.
We believe that we have been invited into an amazing relationship with God. Like any other relationship, communication is key. We worship God because we love Him and want Him to know how grateful we are. We pray because our faith is relational and we believe God hears and answers prayer. In fact, Jesus himself spent a lot of time praying and we want to follow his example on how to have a good relationship with our Father.

Bo Noonan
Bo is the Lead Pastor of New Community Church. He married Alexis in 1999 and they have one son, Jackson, and a new baby on the way. Bo and family moved from Boston, MA in 2006 to help establish a church in the city. He is most passionate about seeing people's lives supernaturally changed by God.

Sam Poe
Sam serves the church here in Tacoma as well as Newfrontiers internationally. He has a passion for getting the gospel to the nations. We often wonder where in the world Sam is: Zimbabwe, Russia, Ukraine, England... To keep up check out his blog. Sam is married to Marlene and they have three children and six grandchildren.

Wes Swarthout
Wes serves the church in many ways, but mainly in the arena of administration. He is passionate about connecting people to the church. Wes is married to Malena and they have three beautiful daughters, Paloma, Alexa, and Mia. They moved to Tacoma from Guadalajara, Mexico to help start the church.

Waymond Hampton
Waymond serves the church in two main ways: he designs/creates and he overseas our worship teams. Waymond has a passion to beautify our meeting place, our website and all of our literature. He also has a great passion to see people released into worship of their God. He is married to Leigh and they moved here from Kansas City, MO to help start the church.