What is Membership?

 
 

  • Membership is deciding to be “all in” at Garden City.

  • Membership is committing to Garden City instead of “dating” Garden City.

  • Membership is joining the mission and belonging to the family.

  • Membership is moving from consumer to contributor.

  • Membership is obeying the New Testament call to live as an accountable member of a larger family/body.

"For just as the body is one and has many members…all the members of the body, though many, are one body. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."
(1 Cor. 12:12, 27)

 

The Membership Process

 
 

The Garden City membership process is simple yet thorough. We simply want to assess two things: 1) Are you a Christian? 2) Do you understand what it means to be passionately committed to and function as a healthy member of this particular local church? To help you and to help us along this path, our membership process involves 3 steps:

Step 1: Explore

Join a Life Group, and read the Garden City Church Membership Handbook.

Step 2: Interview

Fill out the Garden City Membership Application. Once you submit your application to your Life Group leader, they will schedule your membership interview with you. These interviews are generally brief, yet thorough. Your LG leader will interview you to assess if 1) you clearly understand what we expect of Garden City members 2) you are ready to make this commitment. When you pass the interview, you move to step three.

Step 3: Go Public

Sign the Garden City Membership Covenant and “go public” with your membership commitment. At our next Membership Sunday (these happen quarterly) you will stand up front with all the other new members and will be prayed for by the whole church.

Note: If you haven‘t yet been baptized, you also commit to being baptized at our next Baptism Sunday.