At Grace Marietta we believe Mission looks like orienting our lives around God’s Kingdom Way. It looks like proclaiming Kingdom Justice on the earth and serving the most vulnerable and oppressed in our world. We live this out through local and global partnerships and outreach initiatives.

RACIAL EQUITY

We believe that all of humanity is created in the image of God therefore we are passionately committed to racial equity.

OUR GOALS

To prophetically walk in Jesus’ Kingdom Dream of unity.
To continuously learn together about the history of racism in America, the church’s role in that history, and what we can do about it today.
To stand in unity with our Brothers and Sisters of Color against the root of sin that yields the fruit of racism.
To demonstrate the love of God, by embracing our diversity in unity.
To be a church that is safe for all People of Color.

How do we live out God’s heart for justice among peoples of diverse ethnicities, generations, and cultures?

We see our world’s profound need for healing among diverse peoples, and we are committed to labor in the present toward God’s promised future: a redeemed community bound together by the love of Christ and representing every nation, ethnicity, race and language (Rev. 7:9).

As a Family of Churches, we recognize we cannot accomplish Jesus’ command to “make disciples of all nations” without engaging multi-ethnic discipleship and real cross-cultural friendship. These relationships are built upon our recognition of universal human dignity (Gen. 1:26-28) and repentance from our universal rejection of God’s design that results in dehumanization, structures of inequality, and even enslavement of others (Is. 53:6, Rom. 3:23). While this may seem an improbable task, the Apostle Paul tells us that the reconciling work of Jesus Christ tears down hostility and opens the way “to create in himself one new humanity” (Eph. 2:14-15, NIV). Therefore, within our church communities, we refuse to tolerate any kind of racial or ethnic discrimination, bias, or prejudice. Beyond the church, we are compelled by the love of Christ to fight injustice wherever we find it as we serve and speak out on behalf of the poor, oppressed, vulnerable, and forgotten (Luke 4:18-19, Prov. 31:8-9, Is. 58:1-12).

Finally, we will persevere in this work no matter the difficulty because we are confident that in the not-too-distant future Jesus will return to judge justly, wipe away every tear, and make all things new (Rev. 21:1-5).

COMPASSION MINISTRY

Our Compassion ministry serves our local Marietta community through our community outreach efforts.

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

PRAY

Pray for the city of Marietta. Pray for your neighbors and friends. Pray for our schools and the next generation of our community. Pray for how you might love on the people of our city.

SERVE

Throughout the year we support various local organizations through our Community Outreach drives such as donations for the Wheeler Food Pantry, The Table on Delk, and the YMCA. Check back here for updates about our Community Outreach initiatives.

Join our Kingdom Community dedicated to serving our local Marietta community. Email ali@gfc.tv for more details.

For more information about our Compassion ministry, email ali@gfc.tv

GLOBAL MISSIONS

Our Global Missions initiative supports the overall missions vision of the Grace Family of Churches, targeting people groups from the "10/40 window" (the rectangular window 10 degrees north to 40 degrees north in the eastern hemisphere) which contains approximately 3 billion people who have never heard the gospel.

Our missions giving is funded as a percentage of church giving so every tithe and offering given to Grace Marietta goes, in part, to support these efforts.

WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

PRAY

Join us in praying for the missionaries we support in Africa, The Middle East, East Asia, and various refugee communities around the globe.

SERVE

We have a Missions Team at Grace Marietta who help to make decisions about the missions initiatives we support as well as encouraging and equipping the missionaries we support. Contact us if you are interested in learning more by emailing marietta@gfc.tv