LifeConnection Church Grain Valley

Derek Steinmuller serves as the pastor of LifeConnection Church Grain Valley. He has been in pastoral ministry for 10 years, receiving his Master of Divinity from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2010. He has been married to his wife, Christy, for 19 years and has 3 children. His family moved to Grain Valley almost 2 years ago as the Lord called them to plant LifeConnection.

We’re all driven by something, market forces, popular opinion, personal gain. At LifeConnection we are driven by deep motivations that arise from the scriptures. Our goal as followers of Jesus is to become a missional community of truth, beauty, and generosity.

(John 20:21; Matthew 28:16-20)
The church has been thrust into the grand mission of God, who is transforming our lives and our world through the gospel of Christ. And in this mission, the church is the hope for our world because she has this life giving message of the gospel.

(Genesis 2:18-25; Ephesians 2:11-22)
God created humanity to live in relationship with one another, life was not meant to be a solo endeavor. God is in business of creating a people for his own name’s reputation, thrusting his people into his grand mission. Life transformation and partnership for God’s grand mission happens in the context of community.

(John 14:6; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)
The scriptures form the center of LifeConnection’s missional community, precisely because it is here, in the scriptures (the Old & New Testaments), that we encounter Jesus, the one true God, who is the hero of every story. For us Jesus Christ is the point of life.

(Psalm 19:1-6; Psalm 50:1-2)
No mistake about it, God is gloriously beautiful in all his perfections. And his world is created to display this glory. This is seen from the earliest chapters of Genesis where at the mere utterance of a word the universe springs into existence. And his glory is no more profoundly displayed than in the message of the cross – a confounding message to some but to those who believe a message of life.

(2 Corinthians 8:9; John 10:10)
God’s great generosity is displayed in the mere fact that he created anything at all. God did not need to create, he wasn’t lonely, he wasn’t wanting for attention. But his greatest display of generosity is seen in the mangled, crucified body of his son, Jesus. It is through Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection that we can experience life. Because of God’s great generosity displayed in Jesus, we seek to become generous with our lives, our talents, our resources, and our finances for the benefit of our city.