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Meet the Staff and Leaders
Our dedicated team of Ministers, Elders, and Church Leadership are here to provide spiritual guidance and support. We want to equip you wherever you are on your faith journey.
Our Story
In 2008, God launched a work in the Treasure Valley that has truly been a miracle to witness. It started when an existing church chose to humbly close its doors and help fund a new church that would reach unchurched people and disciple them. Bill Heydorn & Justin Jordan, along with their families, came together to lead this church because of God's calling. We, as Jesus’ church, embarked on the journey of reaching the 357,000 people in the Treasure Valley who don't know Jesus as Lord and Savior. We did this in partnership with our supporting church, Real Life Ministries, located in Post Falls, ID. We continue today because of God’s faithfulness and because of many people's generosity, investment & partnership with us.
On October 12, 2008, we met for the first time at Edward's Theater in Boise, Idaho. Those facilities met our needs for a time, but as we grew we needed a more accommodating facility. In 2010, we moved to Mountain View High School in Meridian, Idaho. God brought together the leaders of the church along with their families to continue to build upon what the Lord had already done with the power of the Holy Spirit.
On October 14, 2018, through much prayer and discussion as an eldership, we communicated to the congregation on our 10th anniversary that we had located a facility that we believed God wanted us to pursue to become our home base in the Treasure Valley. Over the course of the next 12 months, the building and lot were purchased and renovated, and we officially moved into the building on November 3rd, 2019, with record attendance.
God has been gracious to us, and we feel very blessed to see all of the people God brings each week to our church. With all of the blessings and detours along the way, we have learned to trust God more. The bottom line is, “We exist to reach the world for Jesus, one person at a time!" We seek to hear from Jesus each day, to stay in step with His Spirit & put God the Father on display. We seek to be a church that makes disciples who make disciples. We mobilize as a church into our community to serve and meet needs. We multiply leaders and disciple-makers. We do all of this in a relationship with Jesus and a real relationship with others. This is the heartbeat of our church.
OUR VISION
Real Life Ministries is a place where Jesus & real life meet! We are a bunch of imperfect people following a perfect God who loves us unconditionally. We exist to reach the world for Jesus ... one person at a time, because Jesus’ church cares about who Jesus cares about. We are invited to join Jesus at work in our world. We are all in the process of becoming who Jesus called us and designed us to be individually as disciples and together as his church. We are a church focused on reaching Meridian, Boise, Nampa, and the entire Treasure Valley. Our method for achieving this strategy is a four-step process:
OUR VALUES
SHARE
We will SHARE Christ with a lost world.
CONNECT
We will CONNECT people into real relationships.
MINISTER
We will equip people to MINISTER in the church and in the world.
DISCIPLE MAKER
We raise up disciples who learn to become DISCIPLE MAKERS.
OUR FOCUS IS TO CREATE BIBLICAL DISCIPLES IN RELATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
BIBLE
We believe the Bible is God’s Word to us. It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. Because it is inspired by God, the Bible is infallible, inerrant, and absolute truth. It is the ultimate and final authority for Christian beliefs and living.
Psalms 12:6; 119:105; 160, Proverbs 30:5, 2 Timothy 1:13; 3:16, 2 Peter 1:20-21.
triune GOd
We believe God is self-existent, and by nature He is eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere. God has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are in agreement and unified with each other’s role in the Godhead. We believe these three are co-equal and are one God.
Genesis 1:1; 26-27; 3:22, Deuteronomy 6:4, Job 38; 39; 40, Psalm 90:2; 139:1-4; 7-10, Isaiah 40:13-17; 45:18, Matthew 19:26; 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; I Peter 1:2. John 1:1, Colossians 1:15
God the Father
We believe that God the Father holds all the attributes of God while exercising a unique role in the Godhead. He is the father of Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and yet still one with both, as God. God the Father adopts believers in Jesus Christ into a relationship with Him as their Father (see Salvation).
John 15:1-4, Deuteronomy 32:6, Isaiah 9:6; 63:16, John 20:17, Romans 8:14-17, Galatians 4:6.
We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He is God. He is co-equal with the Father and Holy Spirit, present and participating in creation. Jesus took on human flesh in the fullness of time so that He could live a sinless human life and offer Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on the cross. He was raised from the dead, after three days, victorious over the power of sin and death. He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead and to make all things new.
Isaiah 9:6, Matthew 1:22-23, John 1:1-5; 8:58; 14:10-30, Acts 1:9-11, Romans 1:3-4, I Corinthians 15:3-4, Colossians 1:15-23, I Timothy 6:14-15, Titus 2:13, Hebrews 4:14-15, Revelation 1:8.
JESUS
Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son as God. He is present in the world to make all people aware of their sin and their need for Jesus Christ. His purpose in our time is to bring glory to Jesus and to intercede with God the Father on our behalf. He dwells in every Christian from the moment of salvation. He gives gifts to believers providing them with power to grow in Christlikeness, to understand spiritual truth, and to serve the mission of the church.
Genesis 1:1-2, Psalm 51:10-12, John 14:16-17; 16:7-13,17, Acts 1:8, Romans 5:5, I Corinthians 2:12; 3:16, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Galatians 5:25, Ephesians 1:13; 5:18, 2 Peter 1:19-21.
Salvation
We believe that all have sinned (willful disobedience to God). We believe that the wages of sin is death and eternal separation from God. Salvation is a free gift of God. Jesus Christ’s death and His resurrection is the only sufficient payment for our sins. It’s only by grace through faith that one can receive this free gift. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of their life. This is evidenced by repentance, confession, baptism by immersion, and a life submitted to Christ. We believe a baby, or a young child cannot understand sin or the need for Christ and are under God’s grace until an age of accountability determined by God.
John 1:12; 14:6, Romans 5:1; 6:23, Galatians 3:26, Ephesians 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Romans 10:9-13, Acts 2:38-40, 2 Samuel 12:23; Matthew 18:2-3; 19:13-15.