About

Meet the Team

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Ben Burdick

Senior Leader

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Faith Werner

Administrator

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Suzy Danko
Administrative Overseer

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Trent & Erica Cook

House Church Pastors

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Jeff & Julie Eayrs

House Church Pastors

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Matt & Dixie Turner

House Church Pastors
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Our Core Values


Stewarding God's Presence

Belonging to a Family

Making Followers of Jesus

Living in a Culture of Honor

Our Vision & Mission


VISION - One Family. Full of Joy. Spreading Hope. Restoring the World.

MISSION - We Love. We Go.


We Love...

God by:
Hosting His Presence
Walking humbly with Him
Obeying His commands
Yielding to His leadership

Our Neighbor by:
Responding with kindness
Stopping for the one
Praying with faith
Releasing healing
Showing great mercy
Filling practical needs
Welcoming people in

Matt 22:37-40 37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it:  ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’  40 On these two commandments hang all the Laws and the Prophets.

We Go...

To find People of Peace (Lk 10:1-9)
To our friends & coworkers
To the hurting
To the places people gather
To the Nations
To the person across the street
To make followers of Jesus

Matt 28:19  19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

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Our Beliefs

Apostles' Creed

“We believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; He descended into hell; on the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there He will come to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.”

Our Story

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Every community has a story.  Ours began as a prophetic word given to Ben & Carolea on October 21st, 2005.  Seven years later, on the anniversary of that word, the church was born. With a passion for New Testament Christianity, we noticed 5 key ingredients from Acts 2:42-47 which we incorporated into our services:  apostolic teaching, food, fellowship, prayer and presence-based worship.  Over the years, our understanding and application has changed but our passion has not.  We’ve become more missional and we’ve relentlessly striven to find a church model which looks like the book of Acts.  But like much of the Body of Christ, we struggled to find it.  This brought us to a crisis of decision in October 2020.

The 20/20 Model — Gathered & Scattered

In the context of a global pandemic and after a series of “God-incidents” we asked ourselves what (if anything) are we supposed to learn from 2020?  We believed God had something for us if we would listen.  We noticed that the Global Church is growing the fastest in areas of persecution (such as China and Iran).  To our knowledge this growth has not been hindered by Covid-19 whereas the Western Church was dramatically affected.  Our public gatherings were halted or hindered.  We scrambled to move “on-line".  Our momentum, our programs and our outreaches were all drastically impacted.  This is on top of spiritual decline which has prevailed in the Western Church for decades.  Few would argue, it’s time for revival!  But we asked ourselves, is it also time for structural change?  Is it time for a new wineskin?  If a virus can do this to us, what would persecution achieve?  Could we withstand persecution and prevail as the early church did?  And if God graciously poured out His Spirit upon the earth, resulting in a great harvest of souls, how would we disciple those masses?  The Persecuted Church would likely continue doing what it’s doing now — making disciples in House Churches (only faster).  We decided we needed a new wineskin — one that facilitates discipleship and can produce leaders quickly. 

It was in this context the Lord took us to Acts 20:20 and pointed out that the Apostle Paul built the Church in Ephesus on a balanced rhythm of gathering publicly and house to house.  We realized that the elders he gathered at Miletus were the house church pastors of the city-wide church in Ephesus.  We noticed in the Gospels that Jesus ministered publicly (on a mountain, by the shores of Galilee, in synagogues, and in the Temple) and also in homes (Peter & Andrew, Matthew, Zaccheus, Mary & Martha, and many others).  We noticed the early church was birthed and continued to grow following the same pattern (Acts 2:46 and 5:42).  We sensed the Holy Spirit speaking to us as if to say, “I birthed the Church in a house (not Synagogue or Temple) for a reason.”  We suspect it has something to do with being spiritual family.  Instead of seeing “church” as public gatherings on Sunday mornings with home groups added on, we experienced a paradigm shift.  We began to see “church” scattered in houses as being of equal value with “church” gathered publicly together.   
 
With this in mind, we decided to change our structure.  This is not a reaction to something we don’t like about the “institutional church”.  Rather it is a pro-action to partner with the Holy Spirit to see multitudes become followers of Jesus regardless of what is happening in the world around us.  We believe in leadership.  We believe in organization and will remain organized as we go.  We love and believe in every expression of the Body of Christ.  In making this change, we do not think we have “arrived”.  We just want simple.  We want to learn from 2020 — not just the year but also the verse.  As of January 2022, we now meet publicly at Purpose Church on the 1st Sunday of the month and in House Churches for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays.  Come Lord Jesus!  
Visit

Gathered Church — 11:00am, 1st Sundays
Purpose Church — 301 W Wyoming St, Kalispell

Scattered Church — 2nd, 3rd & 4th Sundays
House Churches

Contact

Mail: PO Box 7624, Kalispell, MT 59904-0624
Phone: 406-837-7664
Email: info@mountainsongchurch.org