Other ministries we are affiliated with:Floyd County Baptist Association9 Marks.orgPerspectives on the World Christian MovementThe Gospel Coalition

Foster Care Ministry OpportunitiesMurphy-Harpst Centers provides Specialized Foster Care to children and teens. Three Rivers has the opportunity to partner with Murphy-Harpst to minister to both foster children and the adults who are serving these children in many different capacities. Two ways we are initially looking at doing so are through hosting a monthly "Brunch and Learn" for SFC parents and through providing childcare, activities, and lunch at the quarterly SFC training meetings that parents must attend. For more information about these ministry opportunities, click the links below or contact Mary Margaret Mauer at mmm@mauerhome.com.Click on Brunch and Learn to learn more about this monthly opportunity to bless Specialized Foster Care parents.Click on Quarterly Training to learn about this quarterly opporutunity to bless Specialized Foster care children, parents, and staff. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (James 1:27 ESV)

The Amazing ChaseSaturday April 9th, 9am - 1pm"It’s like a scavenger hunt on steroids!"Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 Amazing Chase – Men II Boyz – er, I mean “Men Among Boys.” We had an awesome turnout, and great time was had by all. A special thanks to all of the volunteers, and especially to Mark and Alice Suroviec and Emmett Long for organizing the Race. For those of you who missed it, there is always next year. Hopefully all of the teams will obey all traffic laws next time around...yeah, you know who you are!

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Brad Hank!ns is a native Texan who serves as a pastor for Three Rivers. Brad also maintains a full-time career as a commercial building inspector. Since their marriage in 1989, God has placed a passion in Brad and his wife Michelle's heart to be catalysts who mobilize the Church to engage people groups across the globe with the gospel. In March 2001, God called Brad to lead his family to Georgia to be a part of the church planting team for Three Rivers. As of May 2012, Brad has transitioned from his role as executive pastor to that of church planter as he and his family look to plant another church in Portland, OR in 2013 along with Michael and Kelly Smith. Brad and Michelle have been blessed with four beautiful children: Grace, Micah, Jacob, and Abbey.

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world."- James 1:27 (NIV)Project127 Rome is a coalition of Floyd County churches who have come together to change the way Rome and Floyd County do foster care. The group has named the mission Project127 Rome for the biblical call to serve orphans found in James 1:27.We invite committed Christian families to serve as foster parents, volunteers and supporters of our ministry.Visit us at http://www.project127rome.org/

Mission Core ValuesOur desire at Three Rivers is to be a missional church - a church which has at the very core of its being the drive to communicate and demonstrate the glory of God in the image of Christ to all people. Our Mission(1) Core Values help us to articulate and guide our unique role within the global Church in advancing God's kingdom cross-culturally.1. Focused: Unreached People GroupsThree Rivers' passion, FOR GOD'S GLORY, is to answer the challenge to take the magnificent news of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups (UPGs), even in the face of risk. We, as the Apostle Paul wrote, "aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named." (Rom. 15:20) We call this frontier missions--going where the church is not established.2. Strategic: Church Planting MovementsIt has been said that the most effective form of evangelism is through church planting(2). Our goal, FOR GOD'S GLORY, is to establish self-sustaining, reproducible, church-planting churches full of radical followers of Jesus who are committed to engaging the culture by meeting both physical and spiritual needs. For the sole purpose of advancing the kingdom of God, these churches will adopt, develop, and implement effective strategies to launch Church Planting Movements (CPMs). 3. Dynamic: Going and SendingGod's mandate throughout Scripture gives every believer the opportunity and the responsibility to carry the good news of Jesus as the Savior to every people group on the face of the earth. This certainly does not mean that we think everyone is called to work overseas as a cross-cultural missionary. Some are specifically called by God to stay, be salt and light in their own culture, and join others in sending those who are called to be frontier missionaries. Both jobs are crucial and equally important. FOR GOD'S GLORY, we will endeavor to encourage and prepare people for the task - whether it's with the neighbor across the street or halfway around the world.4. Long-Term: Committed to Seeing the Work ThroughMany of the churches' methods today toward cross-cultural mission work are "shotgun" approaches--short term trips to a random country each year with no specific long term strategy or goal in mind. FOR GOD'S GLORY, we will, instead, commit to a strategy that focuses long-term on a specific UPG until a Church Planting Movement is launched and a self-sustaining, viable, indigenous church is established.5. Synergistic: Strategic PartnershipsSynergy is defined as the working together of two or more things, people, or organizations, especially when the result is greater than the sum of their individual effects or capabilities(3) . With this approach, FOR GOD'S GLORY, we will pursue strategic partnerships with like-minded churches and organizations, and by using the life of Jesus as our example, we will seek to transform lives and holistically meet needs- both physically and spiritually.1. For our purposes, mission narrowly defined is the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom of God cross-culturally to a people who have never heard. 2. C. Peter Wagner, Church Planting for a Greater Harvest (Ventura, CA: Regal, 1990, p. 11) 3. Encarta World English Dictionary [North American Edition] (c)2005 Microsoft Corporation

Young Moms is a teen parent community that ministers to pregnant and parenting teen mothers. The young moms receive a yummy free meal, make friends with other young moms, learn life and parenting skills from guest speakers, earn 'kidz kash' to 'buy' items for them or their child, play fun games together, participate in group discussions, learn helpful parenting tips, make their own special craft, free childcare from caring people, win door prizes, and more!Contact Michelle at 706.766.7061 for more information or to volunteer. Visit their website at: http://www.youngmomsrome.comMichelle with Young Moms was interviewed for ABC News Nightline

Kids Have Fun and Caregivers Get a Break!Buddy Break is a FREE kids/respite program designed to give caregivers of kids with special needs (VIP kids) a break from their ongoing care-giving responsibilities for three hours. Each VIP kid at Buddy Break is paired up with a Buddy friend for one-on-one attention as everyone has fun playing games, hearing and seeing great children’s stories, videos, music and more while giving the caregivers a much needed break! Siblings have fun too!VIPs are kids with special needs, which include any physical, cognitive, medical or hidden disability, chronic or life-threatening illness, or those who are medically fragile. This program is for VIP children and their siblings, ages 3-18 years old.Three Rivers Community Church will host Buddy Break at the Unity Christian School upper campus. To sign up or for more information, please contact Jessica Bost at 706-346-6346, lawsonandjess@mac.com or go to www.buddybreak.org.

Connect GroupsWhile corporate worship time on Sunday morning is important, Connect Groups are a foundational component of TRCC. Connect Groups are where we experience being the church, not just having church services.Connect Groups meet regularly for Bible study, encouragement, prayer, sharing, social events, and shared ministry. Most of our groups meet in the homes of members, but some also meet on campus or elsewhere in the community.If you would like to learn more about Connect Group opportunities or are interested in beginning a group in your sphere of influence, contact Emmett@threeriverscc.org.

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Mission Core ValuesOur desire at Three Rivers is to be a missional church - a church which has at the very core of its being the drive to communicate and demonstrate the glory of God in the image of Christ to all people. Our Mission(1) Core Values help us to articulate and guide our unique role within the global Church in advancing God's kingdom cross-culturally.1. Focused: Unreached People GroupsThree Rivers' passion, FOR GOD'S GLORY, is to answer the challenge to take the magnificent news of Jesus Christ to unreached people groups (UPGs), even in the face of risk. We, as the Apostle Paul wrote, "aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named." (Rom. 15:20) We call this frontier missions--going where the church is not established.2. Strategic: Church Planting MovementsIt has been said that the most effective form of evangelism is through church planting(2). Our goal, FOR GOD'S GLORY, is to establish self-sustaining, reproducible, church-planting churches full of radical followers of Jesus who are committed to engaging the culture by meeting both physical and spiritual needs. For the sole purpose of advancing the kingdom of God, these churches will adopt, develop, and implement effective strategies to launch Church Planting Movements (CPMs). 3. Dynamic: Going and SendingGod's mandate throughout Scripture gives every believer the opportunity and the responsibility to carry the good news of Jesus as the Savior to every people group on the face of the earth. This certainly does not mean that we think everyone is called to work overseas as a cross-cultural missionary. Some are specifically called by God to stay, be salt and light in their own culture, and join others in sending those who are called to be frontier missionaries. Both jobs are crucial and equally important. FOR GOD'S GLORY, we will endeavor to encourage and prepare people for the task - whether it's with the neighbor across the street or halfway around the world.4. Long-Term: Committed to Seeing the Work ThroughMany of the churches' methods today toward cross-cultural mission work are "shotgun" approaches--short term trips to a random country each year with no specific long term strategy or goal in mind. FOR GOD'S GLORY, we will, instead, commit to a strategy that focuses long-term on a specific UPG until a Church Planting Movement is launched and a self-sustaining, viable, indigenous church is established.5. Synergistic: Strategic PartnershipsSynergy is defined as the working together of two or more things, people, or organizations, especially when the result is greater than the sum of their individual effects or capabilities(3) . With this approach, FOR GOD'S GLORY, we will pursue strategic partnerships with like-minded churches and organizations, and by using the life of Jesus as our example, we will seek to transform lives and holistically meet needs- both physically and spiritually.1. For our purposes, mission narrowly defined is the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom of God cross-culturally to a people who have never heard. 2. C. Peter Wagner, Church Planting for a Greater Harvest (Ventura, CA: Regal, 1990, p. 11) 3. Encarta World English Dictionary [North American Edition] (c)2005 Microsoft Corporation

PurposeFor the glory of God we will build the church, both local and global, by being and producing radical followers ofJesus Christ.RADICAL (def.):1. Arising from or connected to a root or source (Jesus).2. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme.3. Favoring or effecting fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions.We believe that the Radical Life Jesus calls us to is not just a Sunday morning event, but it is a life of worship that is lived out every minute of every day for the glory of God and our enjoyment in Him.

Emmett Long hails from Gainesville, GA. His educational journey has taken him to Berry College and seminary in Texas, where he met the Hankins and discovered church planting. In August 2001 he returned to Rome to help start TRCC, and soon thereafter met Jenny, his beautiful wife and ministry partner. Emmett serves as the Discipleship Pastor at Three Rivers and works full-time as an agent with Jowers-Sklar Insurance Agency. God has given Emmett a passion to equip believers to make a difference wherever they are, through directing, teaching, and mobilizing connect groups. He enjoys spending time outdoors admiring God's creative genius. Emmett and Jenny have two daughters and a son, Natalie, Karis, and Jonathan.

Radical Kids Children's Ministry...preparing kids for a life of worship The children's ministry of Three Rivers Community Church invites your child to share with us in becoming Radical Kids for Christ each Sunday morning from 10:30- 12:00. The vision for our kids is the same three-fold vision TRCC has for the rest of the church body. We strive to instill these principals in children through Christ-centered curriculum, lessons, activities, and songs by way of excellent and age-appropriate teaching of God's Word. The foundation of radical kids will be based on:Priming their hearts for communion with God Equipping them to collide with culture Preparing them for communion with the bride (the Church)We hope to meet you soon! Radical Kids Workers Schedule

The Triune GodWe believe in one God, eternally existing in three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who know, love, and glorify one another. This one true and living God is infinitely perfect both in his love and in his holiness. He is the Creator of all things, visible and invisible, and is therefore worthy to receive all glory and adoration. Immortal and eternal, he perfectly and exhaustively knows the end from the beginning, sustains and sovereignly rules over all things, and providentially brings about his eternal good purposes to redeem a people for himself and restore his fallen creation, to the praise of his glorious grace.RevelationGod has graciously disclosed his existence and power in the created order, and has supremely revealed himself to fallen human beings in the person of his Son, the incarnate Word. Moreover, this God is a speaking God who by his Spirit has graciously disclosed himself in human words: we believe that God has inspired the words preserved in the Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, which are both record and means of his saving work in the world. These writings alone constitute the verbally inspired Word of God, which is utterly authoritative and without error in the original writings, complete in its revelation of his will for salvation, sufficient for all that God requires us to believe and do, and final in its authority over every domain of knowledge to which it speaks. We confess that both our finitude and our sinfulness preclude the possibility of knowing God’s truth exhaustively, but we affirm that, enlightened by the Spirit of God, we can know God’s revealed truth truly. The Bible is to be believed, as God’s instruction, in all that it teaches; obeyed, as God’s command, in all that it requires; and trusted, as God’s pledge, in all that it promises. As God’s people hear, believe, and do the Word, they are equipped as disciples of Christ and witnesses to the gospel.Creation of HumanityWe believe that God created human beings, male and female, in his own image. Adam and Eve belonged to the created order that God himself declared to be very good, serving as God's agents to care for, manage, and govern creation, living in holy and devoted fellowship with their Maker. Men and women, equally made in the image of God, enjoy equal access to God by faith in Christ Jesus and are both called to move beyond passive self-indulgence to significant private and public engagement in family, church, and civic life. Adam and Eve were made to complement each other in a one-flesh union that establishes the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women, such that marriage ultimately serves as a type of the union between Christ and his church. In God's wise purposes, men and women are not simply interchangeable, but rather they complement each other in mutually enriching ways. God ordains that they assume distinctive roles which reflect the loving relationship between Christ and the church, the husband exercising headship in a way that displays the caring, sacrificial love of Christ, and the wife submitting to her husband in a way that models the love of the church for her Lord. In the ministry of the church, both men and women are encouraged to serve Christ and to be developed to their full potential in the manifold ministries of the people of God. The distinctive leadership role within the church given to qualified men is grounded in creation, fall, and redemption and must not be sidelined by appeals to cultural developments.The FallWe believe that Adam, made in the image of God, distorted that image and forfeited his original blessedness—for himself and all his progeny—by falling into sin through Satan’s temptation. As a result, all human beings are alienated from God, corrupted in every aspect of their being (e.g., physically, mentally, volitionally, emotionally, spiritually) and condemned finally and irrevocably to death—apart from God’s own gracious intervention. The supreme need of all human beings is to be reconciled to the God under whose just and holy wrath we stand; the only hope of all human beings is the undeserved love of this same God, who alone can rescue us and restore us to himself.The Plan of GodWe believe that from all eternity God determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe and language and people and nation, and to this end foreknew them and chose them. We believe that God justifies and sanctifies those who by grace have faith in Jesus, and that he will one day glorify them—all to the praise of his glorious grace. In love God commands and implores all people to repent and believe, having set his saving love on those he has chosen and having ordained Christ to be their Redeemer.The GospelWe believe that the gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ—God’s very wisdom. Utter folly to the world, even though it is the power of God to those who are being saved, this good news is christological, centering on the cross and resurrection: the gospel is not proclaimed if Christ is not proclaimed, and the authentic Christ has not been proclaimed if his death and resurrection are not central (the message is “Christ died for our sins . . . [and] was raised”). This good news is biblical (his death and resurrection are according to the Scriptures), theological and salvific (Christ died for our sins, to reconcile us to God), historical (if the saving events did not happen, our faith is worthless, we are still in our sins, and we are to be pitied more than all others), apostolic (the message was entrusted to and transmitted by the apostles, who were witnesses of these saving events), and intensely personal (where it is received, believed, and held firmly, individual persons are saved).The Redemption of ChristWe believe that, moved by love and in obedience to his Father, the eternal Son became human: the Word became flesh, fully God and fully human being, one Person in two natures. The man Jesus, the promised Messiah of Israel, was conceived through the miraculous agency of the Holy Spirit, and was born of the virgin Mary. He perfectly obeyed his heavenly Father, lived a sinless life, performed miraculous signs, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead on the third day, and ascended into heaven. As the mediatorial King, he is seated at the right hand of God the Father, exercising in heaven and on earth all of God’s sovereignty, and is our High Priest and righteous Advocate. We believe that by his incarnation, life, death, resurrection, and ascension, Jesus Christ acted as our representative and substitute. He did this so that in him we might become the righteousness of God: on the cross he canceled sin, propitiated God, and, by bearing the full penalty of our sins, reconciled to God all those who believe. By his resurrection Christ Jesus was vindicated by his Father, broke the power of death and defeated Satan who once had power over it, and brought everlasting life to all his people; by his ascension he has been forever exalted as Lord and has prepared a place for us to be with him. We believe that salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved. Because God chose the lowly things of this world, the despised things, the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, no human being can ever boast before him—Christ Jesus has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.The Justification of SinnersWe believe that Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharged the debt of all those who are justified. By his sacrifice, he bore in our stead the punishment due us for our sins, making a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God’s justice on our behalf. By his perfect obedience he satisfied the just demands of God on our behalf, since by faith alone that perfect obedience is credited to all who trust in Christ alone for their acceptance with God. Inasmuch as Christ was given by the Father for us, and his obedience and punishment were accepted in place of our own, freely and not for anything in us, this justification is solely of free grace, in order that both the exact justice and the rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners. We believe that a zeal for personal and public obedience flows from this free justification.The Power of the Holy SpiritWe believe that this salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit. Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and, as the “other” Paraclete, is present with and in believers. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by his powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, baptizing them into union with the Lord Jesus, such that they are justified before God by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. By the Spirit’s agency, believers are renewed, sanctified, and adopted into God’s family; they participate in the divine nature and receive his sovereignly distributed gifts. The Holy Spirit is himself the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.The Kingdom of GodWe believe that those who have been saved by the grace of God through union with Christ by faith and through regeneration by the Holy Spirit enter the kingdom of God and delight in the blessings of the new covenant: the forgiveness of sins, the inward transformation that awakens a desire to glorify, trust, and obey God, and the prospect of the glory yet to be revealed. Good works constitute indispensable evidence of saving grace. Living as salt in a world that is decaying and light in a world that is dark, believers should neither withdraw into seclusion from the world, nor become indistinguishable from it: rather, we are to do good to the city, for all the glory and honor of the nations is to be offered up to the living God. Recognizing whose created order this is, and because we are citizens of God’s kingdom, we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, doing good to all, especially to those who belong to the household of God. The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of God’s sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation. The kingdom of God is an invasive power that plunders Satan’s dark kingdom and regenerates and renovates through repentance and faith the lives of individuals rescued from that kingdom. It therefore inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God.God’s New PeopleWe believe that God’s new covenant people have already come to the heavenly Jerusalem; they are already seated with Christ in the heavenlies. This universal church is manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head; thus each “local church” is, in fact, the church, the household of God, the assembly of the living God, and the pillar and foundation of the truth. The church is the body of Christ, the apple of his eye, graven on his hands, and he has pledged himself to her forever. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her members’ love for one another and for the world. Crucially, this gospel we cherish has both personal and corporate dimensions, neither of which may properly be overlooked. Christ Jesus is our peace: he has not only brought about peace with God, but also peace between alienated peoples. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both Jew and Gentile to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. The church serves as a sign of God’s future new world when its members live for the service of one another and their neighbors, rather than for self-focus. The church is the corporate dwelling place of God’s Spirit, and the continuing witness to God in the world.Baptism and the Lord’s SupperWe believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself. The former is connected with entrance into the new covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal. Together they are simultaneously God’s pledge to us, divinely ordained means of grace, our public vows of submission to and joyful worship of the once crucified and now resurrected Christ, and anticipations of his return and of the consummation of all things. We believe that baptism is an ordinance of the Lord by which those who have repented and come to faith express their union with Christ in His death and resurrection, by being immersed in water in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. It is a sign of belonging to the new people of God, the true Israel, and an emblem of burial and cleansing, signifying death to the old life of unbelief, and purification from the pollution of sin.We believe that the Lord‘s Supper is an ordinance of the Lord in which gathered believers eat bread, signifying Christ‘s body given for His people, and drink the cup of the Lord, signifying the New Covenant in Christ‘s blood. We do this in remembrance of the Lord, and thus proclaim His death until He comes. Those who eat and drink in a worthy manner partake of Christ‘s body and blood, not physically, but spiritually, in that, by faith, they are nourished with the benefits He obtained through His death, and thus grow in grace.The Restoration of All ThingsWe believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with his holy angels, when he will exercise his role as final Judge, and his kingdom will be consummated. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust—the unjust to judgment and eternal conscious punishment in hell, as our Lord himself taught, and the just to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb, in the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness. On that day the church will be presented faultless before God by the obedience, suffering and triumph of Christ, all sin purged and its wretched effects forever banished. God will be all in all and his people will be enthralled by the immediacy of his ineffable holiness, and everything will be to the praise of his glorious grace.This confessional statement is our blending of The Gospel Coalition’s statement of faith and Bethlehem Baptist Church's Elder Affirmation of Faith. You can find these documents at www.thegospelcoalition.org and www.hopeingod.org/document/elder-affirmation-faith.

Mitch Jolly is a native of Rome, GA. He is married to Jennifer, and they have three boys, Gabriel, John Mark, and Daniel. Mitch is a graduate of Shorter College here in Rome and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX. He is passionate about seeing the Kingdom of God advanced through Nation Building, Church Multiplication, Community, Authentic Worship and Community Development. Mitch seeks to accomplish this vision as the Teaching Pastor of TRCC and Director of Spiritual Leadership at Unity Christian School.

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