Loving, Serving
& Impacting
OUR STORY
SINCE 1993
Founded in 1993 by Pastor Mike and DeeDee Freeman, Mike and DeeDee Freeman Ministries is one of the Nation’s fastest growing Ministries. With multiple church locations in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area, the ministry continues to increase in size and includes partners who represent a diversity of cultures and backgrounds.
The anointing of the ministry transcends many religious barriers as its mission includes teaching the Word of God in simplicity with a focus on faith, family, finances, and fellowship. The ministry’s various outreach endeavors also mark its ground breaking efforts within the Body of Christ.
Pastor Mike’s success in life and ministry is attributed to him standing Mark 11:24. His relationship with his wife, DeeDee and family are an example and blessing to the congregation of Faith City Central.
LOVING, SERVING, AND IMPACTING…
Building strong families and their finances, while reaching out to the unsaved, the untaught, and the un-churched. We are receiving an abundance of miracles, an abundance of wealth, and an abundance of souls in Jesus’ name. Amen!
VISION STATEMENT
- To empower the Ministry of Leaders to lead this body alongside our Pastor Mike & Dr. DeeDee Freeman. “Leading God’s People With Us”
- To build a diverse, multicultural community, that moves in unity.
- To impart the Spirit of Excellence through sound biblical teaching, transformative environments for corporate worship, and 5-star customer service.
- To perfect the balance between the “Word” and the “Spirit” of the Progressive Church.
- To be the largest church in the greater Washington, D.C. area by transforming the lives of non-believer’s as disciples of Christ. We will do more for the non-believer than any other ministry.
- To expand both the Brandywine and the Baltimore campuses thereafter, as a life changing, transformational oasis of Faith in their respective communities.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
- We have been called to preach the gospel to the poor, “…to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19).
- We believe that all scripture is given by inspiration of God (2 Timothy 3:16).
- We believe that there is one body and one Spirit; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, through all and in all.
- We believe that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and are in need of salvation.
- We maintain that faith in Christ Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection is the only way, truth and life.
- The born-again experience occurs upon confessing that God raised Jesus from the dead and asking Jesus to come inside your heart.
- We believe in the subsequent experience of the baptism of Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking with tongues.
- We believe that Holy Spirit expresses Himself through people.
- We believe in the ministry gifts as outlined in 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 and we expect the expression and fulfillment of the same.
- We believe in water baptism and observance of the Lord’s Supper (Holy Communion).
- We believe in the return of our soon coming King, Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and that those who remain will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. This is the Second Coming as described in 1 Thessalonians 4.
WE ARE FAITH CITY CENTRAL
Jesus said,
“Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.”
Matthew 28:19
BAPTISM
Baptism symbolizes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus and our own relationship to His victory over sin, death and the grave (Romans 6:35). The one being baptized is presenting himself as a dead person to be buried with Christ, saying, “I am finished with the old life. I want to live in the power of the Resurrected Life of Jesus. I will be loyal to the kingdom of God.”
Baptism means the ability to face God with a clear conscience, for there is in every true baptism the virtue of Christ’s rising from the dead. (I Peter 3:21) We must be very careful not to conclude that baptism saves.
Ephesians 2:8-9 says, “By grace are you saved through faith.” We are not saved by church membership, faithful attendance, the Lord’s supper, or baptism, or all of these things put together. We entrust ourselves to Jesus Christ as our Savior and He alone has the power to save.
WE ARE FAITH CITY CENTRAL
THE LORD’S SUPPER
(HOLY COMMUNION)
Join us every third Sunday
for communion
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed it and broke it, and gave it to them and said, Take, eat, this is my body. And then He took the cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. And He said to them, This is my Blood of the new covenant which is shed for many. Assuredly, I say to you, I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” (Mark 14:22-25)
There is a paradox here. The feast, as it was celebrated in the Bible, was always eaten with two simple elements, bread and the fruit of the vine. The Lord has chosen two common and ordinary elements to remind us whenever we eat them, of His sacrifice and love for us. While these elements become especially meaningful at the time of communion, they are also there to remind us of this love at every meal of the day. The paradox is, that though the elements are only natural food, the Lord has caused us to think of them as representing His Body and Blood. We, who are saved, who are covered by the Blood of the Lamb and who are part of the Body of Christ, are instructed at this time to judge ourselves rightly so that we will not be judged (I Corinthians 11:31). Thus, we are provided a special time for repentance.
The Lord Himself commanded us to do this! The Apostle Paul wrote, “For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread….(and) took the cup also saying. Do this in remembrance of Me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.” (I Corinthians 11:23-26)
How should we come to the table? We should be examining our lives. We should not hesitate to set things right with our fellow believers and with the Lord.
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