Here at GracePoint we are all about Following Jesus and Finding Family. 
OUR VISION:
To be passionate disciple makers with practical Biblical teaching, a place of grace, where the Holy Spirit is moving and changing lives through ministry that meets the heart-felt needs of our local and global community.

ABOUT US

Mason Buchholz

Bruce
Schmidt

Interim Administrative & Executive Pastor

Pastor of GPWorship & Young Adults Ministries

bruce@gracepointnd.org

mason@gracepointnd.org

Duncan Hannestad

Adult Ministries Pastor

duncan@gracepointnd.org

Wendy Backman

KATE
JOCKERS

Receptionist/GPAdult
Ministry Assistant

Tech Coordinator &
Business Affairs

katej@gracepointnd.org

wendy@gracepoint.life

Stacy Newberg

Early Childhood Coordinator

stacy@gracepointnd.org

Tori Renner

GPKids Early Childhood Coordinator

tori@gracepointnd.org

NextGen Pastor

paul@gracepointnd.org

paul
Eyers

ashley
Steininger

Director of Kid's Ministry

ashley@gracepointnd.org

Taran
Robberstad

GPStudents and GPKids Admin

taran@gracepointnd.org

MEET THE ELDERS

MEET THE ELDERS

We value families at every stage, no matter their background. We love and invest in marriages, parents, singles, kids, and students.

family centered

We are committed to relevant biblical teaching that transforms lives.

Relevant bible teaching

We offer God our best, most creative work – and leave the results to Him 

offering our best

We serve others even when it’s not convenient. We care for the hurting and broken. 

valuing each individual

Our goal is to express our devotion to God through joyful praise and intimate worship.  

passionate worshippers

GOD

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

THE BIBLE

We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

THE HUMAN CONDITION

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

THE WORK OF CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

THE CHURCH

We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

CHRISTIAN LIVING

We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.

CHRIST'S RETURN

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

RESPONSE & ETERNAL DESTINY

We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen

What We Believe:

Affiliations

Here at GracePoint, we believe it is important for our people to be an example of Christ in the way we are in service to one another, and so we encourage you to serve in the global in a number of ways:

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YOU CAN GET INVOLVED IN

Northern Plains District

Northern Plains District exist to support our district churches in accomplishing their mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ so that together we might multiply healthy churches among all people.

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EFCA National Conference 

EFCA is the national denomination for GracePoint Church. To learn more about our denomination please click on the button below.

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Cooperstown Bible Camp

Cooperstown Bible Camp is a retreat center set on 65 acres in the Sheyenne River Valley in Cooperstown, ND. The camp is also exists to glorify God as an arm of the local church in developing Christ followers through teaching God's Word in disciple-making relationships within a haven of God's creation.

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