SERVICE SCHEDULE

VISION STATEMENT

We envision committed members giving a weekly tithe to God, and participating fully in the life of the church.

We envision a network of small groups within our church providing support, encouragement, and accountability to our members as they seek to grow in Christ-likeness.

We envision offering a balanced program of Bible studies, classes, topical seminars, and annual conferences for building knowledge, perspective, conviction, skills, and character.

We envision our mid-week service reaching adults, children, and youth.

We envision a faculty of gifted preachers and teachers, equipped with the vision, character, knowledge, and expertise to feed our flock.

We envision a ministry-training program that will prepare ministers to fulfil our global vision for evangelism.

We envision ECI as a church that focuses on changing lives, not just training people.

Establish a church-based training program for pastors.

We intend to train leaders in how to start, develop, and lead churches.

We envision the purchase of a multi-acre tract of land to build and develop the Emmanuel World Outreach Center, a worship and training center for the new millennium.

STRATEGIC MISSION STATEMENT

Emmanuel Church International is a non-denominational, multi-cultural church family with a global vision. Family Emphasis. We believe that God uses families as the basic unit from which comes ambassadors for the kingdom. These ambassadors are to then spread the ‘good news’ throughout the world. God promised Abraham that he would cause his seed to be as the sand of the sea. The purpose of this was that through the ‘seed’, the glory and righteousness of God would be spread throughout the earth. Our children, as they are nurtured and admonished in the ways of God, are to do the same when they become adults and raise their own families. This is the reason why Satan fights so hard to not only break up families, but to even prevent them from coming into existence. In a sense, the family is symbolic of the body of Christ, having a head (the husband) and many members. Non-Denominational God does not see us as having religious labels, neither does he favor one particular denomination over another, for ‘…out of every nation, he that fears God and works righteousness is accepted with him’. He is coming back to rapture a people who have ‘…made their robes white in the blood of the lamb’, not a particular denomination . Multi-Cultural. God has no respect of person with regards to race, color, nationality, culture, or ethnic origin. For he has ‘…broken down the middle wall of partition between us’. No longer are we strangers and foreigners to God, nor are we strangers and foreigners to each other.Global Vision. We believe that Jesus died for the whole world. Therefore, a transformed world through world evangelism is the ultimate goal of the gospel. We also believe that in Jesus’ death racial, ethnic, national, and geographic walls of partition are torn down. God has called us to bridge the gap. We intend to follow the command of Jesus and make disciples of all nations

STRATEGIC MISSION STATEMENT

Pastor Linwood R. Taylor, who prefers to be called simply "Pastor Lin", is the founder and pastor of Emmanuel Church International (ECI). Prior to founding ECI (formerly Emmanuel Ministries International Fellowship), he served in numerous ministerial capacities in other ministries including that of Assistant Pastor, Men’s Ministry, Community Outreach, Substance Abuse Recovery, Children’s Ministry, as well as president of Emmanuel Ministries International, Inc., a humanitarian relief ministry

In 1998, he founded Emmanuel Church International in the basement of his home, and currently serves as its senior pastor. Under his leadership, the church continues to grow and recently acquired approximately six acres of land in 2001, and was able to retire the debt on the property in less than five years. In 2007 ECI broke ground on the construction of Phase I of its building expansion project, with the concurrent development of Valerie Manor, a minor subdivision named after the late Valerie Lynette Taylor. Phase I will consist of the construction of a multi-purpose facility adjacent to its current building. Valerie Manor will consist of eleven executive style homes. Phase II and III will consist of the construction of an expanded sanctuary, and the development of a family life and community center on donated land. ECI has also established its first sister church in Liberia. Emmanuel Church International (Africa) is under the leadership of Pastor Sylvester Barkley, and is located in the city of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, in Liberia West Africa. Pastor Lin firmly believes that the vision for ECI is global in scope, and that God will continue to open other effectual doors to the preaching of the gospel.

Our pastor is currently a doctoral candidate at Trinity Theological Seminary. He attended the Mid-Atlantic Apostolic Bible College, and Chesapeake Theological Seminary. He also holds an A.S. Degree in Business Management from J.S. Reynolds College in Richmond, VA, a B.S. Degree in Business Administration from Towson University (formerly Towson State University), and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Baltimore. Additionally, he attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ where he majored in political science. Additionally, he attended the University of TN at Chattanooga where he majored in business administration, with a concentration in marketing.

He is married to Lillian R. Taylor, RN, BSN, MSN, ANP and is the proud father of three daughters, Valerie Lynette, Laurie Michelle, and Valerie Eve, and one son, Chinard Linwood.

Pastor Lin enjoys traveling with his family, having visited Africa numerous times. He has also visited Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), France, Spain, England, Belgium, Mexico, Canada, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Aruba, and numerous other islands of the Caribbean.

Pastor Lin humbly recognizes that all glory belongs to God, as the vision is not his, but the Lords. Hence, "The Vision Is Always Greater Than the Man".