Dave Booye planted Rogue Valley Fellowship in 1992. After serving with his brother, Rick Booye, at Trail Christian Fellowship for close to seven years, the Lord led him to Medford, Oregon. The elders and pastors sent Dave to Medford with a blessing, and soon thereafter, he held their first meeting at the Campus Life building on Crater Lake highway. Since then, the mission has been the same: to love people, lead them to the cross of Christ, teach them the Word, and to take them out to do the same. Currently we meet weekly to study Gods’ Word, encourage and pray for each other, worship God in song, and to spread the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Much like a river needs banks to contain and direct its flow, believers in Christ need to be guided by the truth of God’s Word. Jesus told us to love the Lord our God with all of our heart and to love our neighbors as ourselves. At Rogue Valley Fellowship, we consider these two Great Commandments the strong “banks” that focus us in our pursuit of God.

Loving God

In Matthew 22:37, Jesus calls the Believer to" Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” The Bible clearly speaks of gods love for us. When we encounter that love, our desire should be to return it by showing our adoration and thankfulness through worship and prayer. This may be in a corporate setting, such as our Sunday morning or midweek services, or it may be in the intimacy of personal contact with God. Our Hope is that our devotion and love for God will grow as we faithfully and sincerely seek Him together.

Loving Others

In Matthew 22:39 Jesus tells the believer to “love your neighbor as yourself.” Our desire is to show love through fellowship with one another, meeting together to study God’s Word and by encouraging one another. Caring for the needs of others, both through prayer and assistance, is also vital to our fulfillment of Jesus’ command. Our love for Christ must be more than words. It must be acted out in love for and service to others.

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Doctrinal Statement

All Scripture is self-attesting and being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life.  The infallible Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God's redemptive acts, culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.  The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks.

                          On this sure foundation we affirm these additional essentials of our faith:

1.  We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 

2.  Jesus Christ, the living Word, become flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth.  He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever.  He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures.  On the third day He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where He is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on High.  He now is our High Priest and Mediator.

3.  The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts.  He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior.  Indwelling our hearts, He gives us new life, empowers us, and imparts gifts to us for service.  He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.

4.  Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God's free grace.  God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, thereby justifying them in His sight.  Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.

5.  The true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ.  The Church finds her visible, yet imperfect, expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments (Communion and Baptism) are administered in their integrity; where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting, she awaits the return of her Lord.

6.  Jesus Christ will come again to the earth - personally, visibly, and bodily - to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.  "Even so, come, Lord Jesus," (Rev. 22:20)

7.  The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world and to make disciples in all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to "Him who loved us and gave Himself for us."  He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." Eph. (2:10)