About us

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church is a community of people called by Christ and shaped by grace to worship God and make his love known in Cedar Park and the world.

Authentic Community

 • Genuine Relationships: Authentic community is a group of sinful people called by Christ and shaped by God’s word into an open family. We seek to be a safe place for genuine relationships to be formed and nurtured.

• Hospitality: Because we follow Christ, we are here to welcome all that come. We are broken people that need a savior, glad to show others the grace we have received from Christ.

• Growth: Even as broken people in a broken world, we do not wish to remain that way. We seek to grow in the grace of Christ through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit and the ministry of the Word.

Worship

As followers of Christ, we are called to worship the one true God. We do this regularly to the glory of God for the benefit of our souls. At Emmanuel, our worship is:

• Historically grounded: Our worship is historically grounded in the traditions of the Church, so that we may unite our voices with Christians from all times and places.

• Present Celebration: Our worship is also a present celebration that unites us to our risen Lord, in word and sacrament. We celebrate because of the hope and joy we have in Christ.

Mission

• Love: As followers of Christ we are called to love our neighbors in both word and deed. We intend that all of our relationships should be avenues for generous grace, because we ourselves have received these things from Christ.

• Service: We seek to show our love through acts of service in the communities and neighborhoods around us.

• Place: We are not just a church in Cedar Park, but we are a church for Cedar Park and the entire northwest side of Austin. We intend to seek the welfare of the communities in which we live and are situated.

Emmanuel is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America. As such we subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Westminster Larger Catechism, and the Westminster Shorter Catechism as our statement of faith.

The Westminster Confession and Catechisms were originally crafted by more than one hundred pastors and scholars representing England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales gathered at London’s Westminster Abbey over the course of seven years in the 1640s.  Their mission was to craft a document that summarized the teaching of Scripture on the vital doctrines of the faith and provide a source of unity and instruction for like-minded churches. We believe it remains an excellent summary to this day.

The following is a summary of what we believe the Bible teaches:

1. There is one God, eternal and self-existing in three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) who are to be loved, honored, and adored equally.
2. God is holy, pure, and perfect, yet he also passionately pursues broken people to love them with a love they have not earned. He is the one true Good Father.
3. The Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
4. All of humankind participated in Adam’s fall from his original sinless state and is thus lost in sin and totally helpless.
5. All of humankind is still made in the image of God, so we are noble, beautiful, and good, while at the same time we are broken in every aspect of our beings.
6. Since the Fall, God has been actively at work redeeming his creation.  In the incarnation, life, and death of his son, Jesus Christ, God has declared, secured, and continued the restoration of all things in his kingdom.
7. The Sovereign God, for no other reason than his own unfathomable love and mercy, awakens, regenerates, and saves lost sinners from every nation.  He does this through the quickening power of the Holy Spirit on account of the atoning death and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ.
8. Justification (being made right with God) is by faith. Through this faith, the undeserving sinner is clothed with the righteousness of Christ.  Read those two sentences again because this is as beautiful as it is hard to believe.
9. The goal of God’s salvation is that we would be adopted as his children, set free, and empowered to live a life of repentance, obedience, and reliance on the Holy Spirit, who works to transform us and restore the image of God in us.
10. Baptism is a sign of God’s covenant and is properly administered to children of believers in their infancy as well as to those who come to trust in Christ as adults.
11. Jesus Christ will return to earth, visibly and bodily, at a time when he is not expected, in order to restore all things and bring fulfillment.
12. The gospel of God’s salvation in Jesus Christ is to be shared with all people and all nations.

Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Cedar Park began life as a site of Redeemer Presbyterian Church of Austin in the fall of 2013. Pastor Greg Ward was called by Redeemer along with Pastor Ken Campbell and a small group of church members to begin a worship service on the Northwest side of Austin. We held our first worship service on Oct. 13, 2013 at the Brushy Creek Montessori School. God saw fit to bless this ministry and by 2015 we had outgrown our first home and moved our fledgling church to Summit Christian Academy, where we presently meet at 10 am on Sunday mornings.

In the fall of 2016 Emmanuel petitioned the South Texas Presbytery to be formulated as a particular church in the Presbyterian Church in America. We celebrated becoming a particular church on January 15th, 2017. We hope you will join us!