About Us
Who We Are
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Renew EPC is a brand new church in Lee’s Summit. You can be part of a fresh start with us as we help one another live in and live out the good news of Jesus Christ.
- To explore your questions
- To apply what the Bible says to your life
- To grow in the Faith as a family
- To connect and belong
- To find hope
Our Pastor
Renew EPC is pastored by Nathan Edwards. Nathan is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. He is also a life long resident of the Kansas City area. He grew up in the northland and attended North Kansas City High School and UMKC. His first career was as a Mechanical Engineer where he served in a local firm in the area. In 2008, he enrolled in seminary at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has since completed his M.Div (2012), Th.M (2015), and Ph.D (2023, Old Testament). Nathan has a passion for knowing and communicating the Scriptures to make them relevant and impactful to our contemporary lives. He and his wife, Becky, and three kids moved to Lee’s Summit in the middle of 2020 and have enjoyed immersing themselves in this new part of the city. Nathan enjoys going to the movies, traveling, watching the Chiefs and Royals, and riding roller coasters.
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Our People
Renew EPC is made up of people from all walks of life, ages, political perspectives, educations, and ethnic backgrounds. We desire to be a church that reflects the wonderful variety that is part of the Kingdom of God. We believe one of the most beautiful things to witness is the power of the gospel to bring people with so many differences together in worship of our Lord Jesus Christ. From wherever you have come, we welcome you to join the family of God at Renew EPC.
Our Vision
Our name declares our vision. We want to be a church where God’s power to make ‘all things new’ in the gospel is experienced and extended. Specifically, we seek to be a church that:
- Renews Gospel Identity through Christ-centered worship and discipleship
- Renews Gospel Impact by empowering the next generation of Christian leaders
- Renews Gospel Curiosity by reengaging those who have been let down by the church in their past
- Renews Gospel Influence through loving our neighbors well and partnering for the common good where we can
- Renews Gospel Multiplication through supporting and starting more gospel centered churches in the KC metro area and beyond.
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Our Mission
We help people Live In and Live Out the Good News of Jesus Christ.
To live in the gospel means to find the gospel as your core identity. At Renew we believe that a person never grows out of the gospel, but only deeper into it. Further, a person whose identity is in the gospel is a person who lives out the gospel. True faith bears the fruit of faithfulness.
Our Values
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Team-minded
We are a wonderfully diverse people who are united in Christ, partners in ministry, and contributors to one another’s spiritual formation, well-being, and security.
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Broken-hearted
We are broken people, wholly known and wholly loved in the gospel, who welcome and serve everyone with humility, compassion, and generosity.
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Gospel-saturated
We are committed to making known and progressing in the good news that we have been made new by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to the glory of God alone.
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Disciple-makers
We live by Him and for Him. We commit to being prayerful, authentic, and active witnesses for Christ in our lives. Together we work to be a multiplying church.
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Truth-grounded
We stand on truth and believe that God’s Word, the Bible, is Truth. Truth doesn’t change; therefore, we are aligned confessionally with historic Reformed Christianity.
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Worship-fueled
Jesus is our first love. Therefore, we are devoted to frequent, joyous, and reverential worship together.
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Kingdom-centered
Jesus is King. He must increase, but we must decrease. We seek and serve His kingdom above all that it might be on earth as it is in heaven. Maranatha!
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Kingdom-centered
Jesus is King. He must increase, but we must decrease. We seek and serve His kingdom above all that it might be on earth as it is in heaven. Maranatha!
What We Believe
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Renew is part of the denomination the Evangelical Presbyterian Church The EPC is a Reformed denomination whose motto is “in essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things charity.” With the EPC we affirm the following Essentials of our Faith:
All Scripture is self-attesting and being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks. On this sure foundation we affirm these Essentials: