Who We Are

• A Missional Church
• Aestus is a missional church which means we deeply believe that the church was created by God under Jesus' leadership to be a sent entity into the world (just like Jesus) to be His emissaries and messengers of hope, healing, forgiveness, and redemption.  This missionality is demonstrated in the way in which we believe people come to a point of truly following Jesus.  There first must be a sense of belonging in a Jesus-centered community in which a person must feel they are a participator and contributor regardless of where they are at in their spiritual journey.  Through the experience of belonging, the gospel of Jesus is experienced as life, not merely doctrine, and the person is drawn by Christ to believe and embrace that gospel as a new creation.  From this place of belief life-transformation begins and continues for the remainder of our life.  Belonging….Belief….Behavior…always in that order.
  
  Being missional is also seen in our strategy of bringing the life-giving news of Jesus to those who don’t yet know Him.  We intentionally seek to pattern our life after Jesus’ strategy of going into the world:
• Leaving our place of comfort and familiarity as God calls us to go.
• Living in the midst of and part of our culture in South King County
• Listening to the hearts and souls of friends as we cultivate authentic relationships.
• Loving people with absolutely no strings attached, trusting that it is God the Holy Spirit who does the spiritual work of drawing people irreversibly to Jesus.
  
• Driven by our Core Values
• Our core values are what shape us and drive us and inspire us.  We believe the core values are the embodiment of the gospel – what it looks like when lived out by Christ’s church – because they are what we see when we watch Jesus in the New Testament.  They are:
• Waiting on God
• Authentic Community
• Passionate Living
• Adventurous Faith
• Missional Ministry
• Holistic Spirituality
• Transformational Truth

Each of our core values is explained and described in detail by clicking [here].

• Supported by Grace Community Church in Auburn
• Grace Community Church in Auburn has a deep passion for church planting for the advancement of the Kingdom in South King County and beyond.  They have generously supported Aestus through resources and prayer and we, as Aestus, are eternally grateful.
• Part of Acts 29 Network
• A network of churches across the nation and the world who are held together by our deep commitment to a Reformed Theology, male eldership in the local church, and being missional churches that plant more missional churches.  Acts 29 is not a denomination and has no centralized power base.  We are a movement, seeking nothing less than the radical redemptive transformation of our respective cultures by the grace of God and the power of the risen Jesus.