WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE TEACH

At GRCC, we welcome people of all faiths and backgrounds to join us in worship and fellowship. Although we don't require our guests to commit to our teaching, we want you to know who we are and what we teach.

GRCC subscribes and adheres to the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith and teaches under the framework of the Five Solas:

Sola Fide, by faith alone
Sola Scriptura, by Scripture alone
Solus Christus, through Christ alone
Sola Gratia, by grace alone
Soli Deo Gloria, glory to God alone

As a church in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), we affirm the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message.

MISSION STATEMENT:

To proclaim Christ through the transformative work of the gospel, equipping and encouraging God's people to holy living, faithful stewardship, and life together as the church.

VISION:

To be a confessional, Hmong American, reformed Baptist church that exhibits faithful multigenerational discipleship and gospel proclamation to the nations.

Hmong Christianity and Where It Should Be Today

For more than 45 years, Hmong Christianity has been alive and thriving, building churches and calling the Hmong out of Shamanism. But there is a general consensus among Hmong Reformed Christians that the Hmong faith has merely been surviving on a clan-community mentality — coming together for strength in numbers and for physical and emotional benefits. Although this has been maintained by the 1st generation Hmong Christians who migrated to the United States in the 70s and 80s, the current Hmong church is struggling to adapt to American culture with the rise of a new generation of Hmong Americans. Second-generation Hmong Christians and beyond have now begun to investigate the unquestioned Hmong church traditions, resulting in the exploration of historical Christianity and biblical theology, which is a wonderful Spirit-led movement.

Because of this new era of knowledge and resources at the palm of our hands, Hmong Christians are now seeking clarity in the gospel and have begun to question their upbringing in the Hmong church. A shift in theology and practice is underway, as Hmong Christians leave traditional Hmong churches to seek a biblical model of church that doesn’t revolve around Hmong culture and its politics. If they are not leaving, they should be leaving, since faithfulness to God comes before family and culture. The power of the Word is beginning to pierce hearts and create convictions, which is causing Hmong churches to dig in to maintain hierarchy and the status quo. A Hmong Reformation is on the horizon.

This is where Grace River City Church comes in.

GRCC is the first Hmong confessional Reformed Baptist church plant and is laboring toward a Hmong Reformation. We started our church plant in the spring of 2018. Pastor Zong Moua contacted Dr. Tra Xiong of the Hmong National Baptist Association and accepted the task of planting the only SBC Hmong church in Sacramento, California. We want to be a Hmong American church that holds to a biblically and historically rich Christianity where the gospel is preached faithfully and the Word is practiced in the church family, the natural family, and in the world around.

In today's digital age, widespread access to the internet through smartphones has brought many positive changes, but it has also contributed to the proliferation of explicit online content.

Grace River City Church has recently joined forces with Accountable2You, a leader in online accountability, to help address this critical issue. Their user-friendly software detects various types of concerning content, such as websites with sexual, self-harming, and other inappropriate or harmful material. Additionally, their advanced monitoring system can track app usage. To view the full list of content monitored by Accountable2You, click on the logo above.