A Welcome from our

Pastor-Teacher

Thank you for your interest in Orlando Grace Church! We praise God for the way He is at work among us as a people and welcome inquiries like yours into our values, mission, vision, and ministries. We pray your visit to our site will prove beneficial as you seek answers to whatever questions you may have about OGC.

We aspire by God’s grace more and more to be a people making much of God in everything for the joy of peoples everywhere. More than anything else we want to grow as a community of believers who go hard after God in prayer, in His word, in worship, and in good works. Nothing matters more to us than becoming a God-centered, Christ-exalting, Spirit-saturated church. In an age where predominantly man-centered evangelicalism desperately needs a modern reformation, we pray that the Lord would graciously work in us to convict and shape us into a people exemplifying the cry of the Reformers: semper reformanda (“always reforming”). The end result of such lofty expectations extends ultimately to the nations – for their joy in coming to trust Jesus Christ as their supreme treasure. God-centered, reform-minded, nations-burdened. These things fuel the fire at OGC.

After an extraordinarily challenging hard providence for our church in ’05 where I battled head and neck cancer for the better part of the year, God gave us an ’06 where we made considerable strides toward strengthening our ministry. We adopted a set of new values, mission, and vision statements, the contents of which appear throughout this site. We sent out one of our very best families to full-time missions on the field of Romania. We developed a significant ministry to college students as God brought numerous ones from neighboring UCF.

As we move into ’07 we seek to become a church all the more “on mission” for the cause of reaching people for the cause of Christ. We have formed a building committee in hopes of breaking ground for our first ever facility on the property God has given us on Maitland Avenue here in Altamonte Springs. These are but a few of the things we are believing God to do for the fame of His name and the joy of all peoples at OGC.

If the Lord leads you to join us in corporate worship some Lord’s Day soon, we look forward to the delight of meeting you and sharing in the work of God in our lives. May He grant you His grace to forsake all other inferior and competing pleasures to pursue ultimate satisfaction in Him through Jesus Christ!

For the Chief Shepherd,

Curt Heffelfinger
Pastor Teacher
Matthew 16:18

We exist to glorify God before realms invisible and visible by continually developing a community of believers growing ever increasingly more satisfied in all that God is for us in Christ Jesus, such that the overflow of our joy, demonstrated in love for unbelieving and believing peoples near and far, calls them by the Holy Spirit’s power to turn from seeking their fulfillment in sin and its inferior pleasures to pursuing the Son of God and the ultimate satisfaction that comes from being rightly and intimately related through Him to God the Father.

Pastor
Curt Heffelfinger