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Current Sermon Series: Ohana Parkview Christian Church is a place for those seeking God at whatever station in life they’re at.

Parkview Christian Church is a non-denominational, Bible-centered church with a goal of reaching out to our fellow seekers with the love and truth of God presented in a relevant and compassionate way. We’re trying to “do church” in a way that will make the message of Christianity accessible to as many people as possible, but especially to those who are lacking a meaningful church connection in the

ir lives right now. In fact, we try intentionally to keep our services accessible, so that non-religious, normal people can understand what’s going on. We hope, obviously, you get more interested in God as you keep checking us (and Him) out. But you can hang out as long as you want, ask questions or just sit and listen. And when you’re ready to take the next step, we’ll be here. View how we worship in our latest service:
http://stauntoncoc.org/WorshipService.html

Our Schedule:
Sunday School at 9:30am
Sunday Worship Service at 10:30am
Wednesday Morning Bible Study at 11:00am
Wednesday Evening Bible Study at 7:00pm

06/12/2026

How do you join a family? The answer is simple—you don’t. You become part of a family. Physically, that means you were either born into it, gave birth to it, or chose one another. Family is never a one-way relationship. It requires both belonging and being welcomed. And for belonging to happen mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, there must be commitment.

That is true for our movie family in Lilo & Stitch, and as we learned from Acts 2:42-47, it is also true for the church. When you look at that first glimpse of the early church, you can’t help but see it. They didn’t just share space; they shared meals, homes, burdens, and the responsibility of welcoming others into the family.

Of course, family does not create perfection. Like any family, there will be struggles, disagreements, frustrations, and difficult moments. What makes family different is that it’s not an organization you join; it’s an organism you become part of. And like any healthy organism, it is designed to grow and reproduce.

So, what does a healthy church family look like? Acts 2:42-47 makes it easy to identify the actions that contribute to health—teaching, prayer, fellowship, worship, and service. But while those actions matter, it is the attitude behind them that creates true health: “All the believers were together and had everything in common.” A healthy church family is committed to one another and united around the mission of caring for those already in the family while welcoming those who still need a place to belong.

06/03/2026

In this week’s message from our Ohana series, we explored what it means to be lost—and what it means to be found.

Using Stitch’s powerful “I’m lost” moment from Lilo & Stitch as a backdrop, we were reminded that being lost is not simply knowing where we are or where we want to go. Spiritually, being lost means being unable to get from where we are to where we need to be on our own.

Walking through key passages in Romans, we saw:

• All have sinned and fall short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23).
• Jesus came looking for us while we were still lost (Romans 5:6-8; Luke 19:10).
• Salvation is a gift that cannot be earned but must be accepted (Romans 6:23).
• Being found begins with faith and surrender, declaring Jesus as Lord and trusting Him as Savior (Romans 10:9-10).
• Baptism is a response to being found, identifying with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus (Romans 6:4).
• Following Jesus is not about perfection but direction, living by faith as part of God’s family (Romans 1:17).

The central truth of the message is simple: everyone has experienced being lost, but only through Jesus can we truly be found. The good news is that Jesus has already come looking for us, inviting us into His family—His Ohana.

Because Ohana means family, and family means which means that which is lost has been found.

05/28/2026

This week in our “Ohana” series, we continued exploring the story of Stitch from Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and discovered a powerful truth about the way God created us.

Lilo tries to teach Stitch how to behave, but every attempt ends in frustration and chaos. Why? Because performance alone cannot transform a heart. As we said in the message: “You cannot behave your way into belonging. You belong your way into becoming.” Real change begins through relationship.

As Stitch watches Lilo, Nani, and David enjoying life together, he sees something he has never experienced before: belonging. Though he was programmed for destruction and isolation, witnessing love and family begins changing him from the inside out. From there, we turned to Genesis and saw that humanity was created for relationship:

• Relationship with creation • Relationship with each other
• Relationship with God But sin fractured those relationships, bringing fear, shame, loneliness, and separation into the world.

The feeling of being “lost” is ultimately the result of broken relationship. The good news is that “lost” is not the end of the story. God created us for belonging, for family, and for relationship with Him.

Ohana means family. And in God’s family, your story is not finished yet.

05/20/2026

This week’s sermon explored the idea of spiritual identity through the illustration of Lilo & Stitch. Just as Lilo misunderstood both Stitch’s identity and the model she chose for him to imitate, Christians can sometimes focus on the wrong things spiritually—trying to improve behavior without truly understanding Jesus. Scripture calls believers to imitate Christ, but true discipleship is not about religious performance or self-improvement; it is about identity transformation.

The message emphasized that identity precedes imitation. We cannot become like Jesus if we do not truly know Him. Jesus perfectly reveals the heart and character of God, showing us compassion, obedience, holiness, and sacrificial love. These are not merely behaviors to copy, but characteristics that shape the identity of His followers.

The sermon challenged listeners to consider what is shaping their identity and reminded us that if we are not intentionally following Jesus, we will imitate something else. The gospel is ultimately about identity recovery—through Christ, we are made children of God, transformed into His likeness, and called to reflect His character in the world. As we fix our eyes on Jesus, imitation leads to identity transformation.

05/12/2026

This Sunday we began our new series “Ohana” by looking at one of the most powerful ideas in both Scripture and storytelling: family is often formed through choice. Using the relationship between Nani, Lilo, and Stitch in Lilo & Stitch as a backdrop, we explored how broken, overwhelmed, and unlikely people can become a family through sacrificial love and commitment. On this Mother’s Day, we honored every kind of mother and caregiver while turning to the story of Mary, mother of Jesus in Luke 1:46–55. Mary’s song reminds us that love is a choice — especially when it is costly, uncomfortable, and unexpected. Like Nani stepping into a role she never planned for, Mary said “yes” to God in the middle of uncertainty, trusting Him with a future she could not fully see.

Together, their stories showed us that God sees the humble, strengthens the overwhelmed, and often builds families and legacies in ways no one expects. The message closed with this reminder: family is not merely defined by DNA, but by love, sacrifice, presence, and the willingness to choose one another again and again.

05/09/2026

New Series Starting This Sunday: “OHANA”

“Ohana means family… and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.”

This Sunday, we’re kicking off a brand new 6-part series exploring what it means to pursue God through relationships—with a little help from cultural themes found in Lilo & Stitch that beautifully mirror this truth.

We’ve been talking about pursuing God… now it’s time to talk about how that pursuit plays out in our relationships with people.

Because following Jesus was never meant to be a solo journey.

In OHANA, we’ll explore:

·         What it means to belong
·         How God builds family out of broken people
·         Why relationships are essential to spiritual growth
·         And how no one is beyond redemption or restoration

Whether you feel connected or completely out of place, this series is for you.

05/07/2026

“Great, now I have guilt!” — a very funny line delivered by an extremely neurotic toy dinosaur in the movie Toy Story.

People have an interesting relationship with guilt. We even have a phrase—“guilty pleasures”—which means I enjoy what I’m doing, even though I know it’s harmful or wrong. And somehow, knowing it’s harmful or wrong seems to intensify the pleasure. Yes, we can be extremely strange when it comes to guilt.

There’s another phrase in our society that is especially familiar, particularly in our legal system: “innocent until proven guilty.” In a human court, I understand its value. As a society, we never want to be guilty of convicting, imprisoning, or executing an innocent person. So, we hold trials. One side attempts to prove guilt, while the other proclaims innocence.

In the process, blame is shifted, testimony is given, and facts are put on display. Some facts never make it into the case because they are suppressed due to technicalities. Often, the facts that are presented are misrepresented, and sometimes, in the quest for innocence, truth is covered up. Then, when everything has been said, we place the matter in the hands of twelve ordinary people to assess the truth and determine whether the defendant is guilty or not.

It’s not a perfect system. Innocent people have been convicted, and guilty people have gone free. But under human law, when done fairly and with integrity, it’s about as good as it gets. And in the end, no matter the verdict, the jury cannot make someone innocent or guilty—they can only decide the outcome, not the reality.

04/30/2026

Even after seasons of surrender, service, and communion with God, the reality remains that our pursuit can become polluted by sin. A careless word, a proud thought, a hidden attitude, or an unconfessed compromise can quickly dim the closeness we once felt with Him. In this message, we stood before the altar of the Sin Offering in Leviticus 4–5 and discovered that God, knowing His people would fail, provided an altar not of condemnation, but of cleansing. This offering was for the everyday, unintentional sins that disrupt fellowship—not rebellion that refuses surrender, but the honest recognition that we have missed the mark and need restoration. The message was clear: forgiveness was never about perfect performance, but about coming honestly before a gracious God who makes us clean again. The ritual itself painted a powerful picture. The worshiper brought the sacrifice, placed their hand upon it, and identified with the substitute—acknowledging that forgiveness always carries a cost. The blood was taken deep into the Tabernacle, showing that sin reaches deep, but God’s cleansing reaches deeper still. The body of the sacrifice was then carried outside the camp and burned, symbolizing that sin had to be removed from God’s dwelling. All of it pointed forward to Christ, our final Sin Offering, who suffered outside the camp at Calvary, bearing our guilt so we could be brought near. Through His blood, we are not merely forgiven—we are cleansed. At the altar moment, represented by the basin of water, we were reminded that cleansing always precedes communion. Just as priests washed before approaching God, we are called to bring our repentance and let God cleanse what sin has stained. This also pointed us to baptism—not as the source of salvation, but as the declaration that Christ’s sacrifice has already made us new. The powerful truth was this: we spend so much time trying to “get saved,” while God is simply asking us to come clean. Repentance is our response; restoration is His work. The Sin Offering teaches us that failure does not end the pursuit of God—it passes through cleansing. At this altar, we do not stay in shame; we rise washed, restored, and ready to pursue

04/26/2026

This week’s message centered on the Fellowship (Peace) Offering, revealing that our pursuit of God doesn’t stop at surrender or forgiveness—it leads to restored relationship. Each altar meets a need, but this one reminds us that true peace isn’t achieved through demands or negotiation, but through sacrifice, just as Jesus taught in Luke 9:23.

Unlike the other offerings, the Fellowship Offering was a joyful, voluntary act where God, the priest, and the worshiper shared a meal together. It wasn’t about paying a debt, but celebrating peace that had already been made. The altar became a table—a place not of striving, but of rest, where we are invited to enjoy relationship with God.

This finds its fulfillment in Jesus, who is our peace. Through His sacrifice, the cross became the table where we are not only forgiven but welcomed. Now, we are called to live at that table—resting in His peace, walking in fellowship with Him, and extending that peace to others.

And this table is only the beginning. It points forward to the eternal table—the wedding supper of the Lamb—where fellowship with God will be fully realized. The invitation still stands: come, dine with Him—not just now, but forever.

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333 Churchville Avenue
Staunton, VA
24401

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+15408865560

Website

http://parkviewcc.org/

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