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About Orillia<br><i><span style="color:var(--primary-color-bg)">Community</span></i> Church

About Orillia
Community Church

Orillia Community Church (OCC) is a warm, multi-generational community of people learning to live and love like Jesus. Whether you’ve been following Christ for years or you’re exploring faith for the first time, you’ll find a place to belong, grow, and serve with us.

We believe church isn’t just a place you go — it’s a community you’re part of. Together, we worship, serve, and encourage one another as we learn what it means to follow Jesus in everyday life.

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Who We Are

Who We Are

Located in the heart of downtown Orillia, OCC is a nondenominational, evangelical church affiliated with Vision Ministries and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.

Our home is a re-purposed 4-plex cinema, now a vibrant space that includes a gym, café, and flexible gathering areas — a welcoming place for both worship and community connection.

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To be a Christ-centered community that loves God, loves people, and makes disciples, right here in Orillia and beyond.

Our Mission

Transformed by Jesus, together for His mission.

Our Vision

Discipleship Pathway

CONNECT - This is where we connect with each other through Sunday worship. When we connect with others in our church family, we get to live out the “one another’s” of Scripture to support each other to make disciples who make disciples.

CULTIVATE – This is where we take responsibility to grow in our faith to become mature disciples. This involves being intentional in our Bible reading, really listening and learning from Biblical teaching, practicing spiritual disciplines. This is to be done individually and with others through LifeGroups.

CONTRIBUTE – This is where I practice stewardship with my time, talents and treasure. This is done through serving with our time and talents either in the church or community and tithing to the church and supporting other Christian organizations.

COMMUNITY – This is where I get to join Jesus on mission. A person will have the best opportunity to become more like Jesus through a community of believers while engaging the community around them. Serve Team, B.L.E.S.S. practices, global missions, mentorship 

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Our Beliefs

There is one God, existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Creator of all things, Ruler of the Universe, eternal, and infinitely perfect. (Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-3; 2 Corinthians 13:14; James 2:19; Revelation 1:4-6).

God the Father, is self-existent, infinite, personal, unchangeable, and eternal in his being; perfect in holiness, love, justice, goodness, wisdom and truth; omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent; Creator and Sustainer of all things visible and invisible; both immanent and transcendent to creation; the Author of Salvation; in character, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin; yet not leaving the guilty unpunished. (John 4:24, I Corinthians 8:4-6, Genesis 1:1, Psalm 90:2, Ephesians 1:2-3, I Peter 1:2-4, Exodus 34:6-7)

The Lord Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He is equal with the Father, sinless and perfect. He died on the Cross as a sacrifice for our sins and by the shedding of His blood and subsequent bodily resurrection from the dead He provides the only means of satisfying divine justice and accomplishing salvation for all who believe in His finished work at Calvary. Further, He ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of the Father and ministers as the believer’s High Priest and Advocate. He will return to earth personally, bodily, imminently, and gloriously, at a time known only to the Father. When He returns He will bring joy to His people, judgment and eternal punishment on unredeemed people, and an eternal state of blessing for every believer. (Matthew 1:20; 24;21; Luke 1:34-35; John 1:14,18; 14:1-6; Acts 1:11; Romans 3:23; 4:25; Ephesians 2:8-9; Philippians 2:6-11; Colossians 1:19; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18; 1 Timothy 2:5; Titus 2:13; 3:5; Hebrews 1:1-9; 4:14; 1 Peter 1:5,18-19; 1 John 5:20; Revelation 19:11-20:6).

The Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son. He is present in the world to glorify Jesus Christ, convict people of sin and draw them to the Saviour. He lives in every Christian from the moment of salvation, baptizes the believer into the body of Christ, regenerates the believing sinner, infuses with new life, comforts, guides and instructs, fills, empowers, equips, and directs believers in Christ-centered worship, witness and service. (Matthew 28:19; John 3:3-7; 14:16-18; 16:7-13; Acts 1;8; 2:1-4; 4;31; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:12; 6:19; 12:13; Galatians 5:25; Ephesians 1:13-14; 2:22; 4:30; 5:18).

The Bible, consisting of the sixty-six (66) books of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God, inerrant in the original documents and the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 12:6; 19:7-11; 119:105,160; Matthew 5:17-19; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Timothy 1:13; 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

Humankind is made in the image and likeness of God, but in Adam, humans rebelled and were separated from God. This resulted in humankind having a sinful nature. And so, it is only through accepting and believing in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as the basis for our justification and salvation, that we can become children of God and live lives that are holy and pleasing to Him. (Genesis 1:27; Psalm 8:3-6; Isaiah 53:6a; 59:1-2; Acts 4:12; 16:31; Romans 3:23; 5:9, 12, 17-21; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Ephesians 2:8-9).

The Church is composed of all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. The local church is a tangible expression of the Church, an organized body of believers in Christ who are joined together for worship and prayer, observing the ordinances, glorifying Christ through the proclamation of the gospel to all peoples nations; exercising spiritual gifts through by serving others in an attitude of love; and developing relationships as people are discipled in accordance with the Word of God. The purpose of the church is to worship God with praise, prayer and thanksgiving; (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8, 2:42, 20:7; 1 Corinthians 12:12-28, 16:1-2; Galatians 3:27-28; Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:24-30; 1 John 3:21-24, 5:1-5).