To be a faith community of people who are passionate about their relationship with Jesus Christ, who introduce Him to others, and are actively involved in serving the community of Clarington.

1. Discovery - We are all on a journey of spiritual discovery. We believe that this church can be a place where life change can happen wherever we are on the road of faith, knowing that spiritual growth is different for each person.
    
2. Service - We want to lovingly serve the Clarington community and our world.
    
3. Community - We value community life and want to provide a place where we develop a sense that we are not working alone, where we find strength and friendship within our community.
    
4. Being Real - We value being a community where people are real and transparent with each other, where we can be ourselves no matter what that looks like.
    
5. Relevant - It also means being a church that is relevant to our everyday lives by using language, music and creative arts to communicate to real people about developing a relationship with Jesus.
    
6. Kingdom Expansion - We value partnerships with others in our community and around the world in serving Jesus because God is bigger than any one church. We value inviting and bringing others into a relationship with Jesus so that God's Kingdom may be expanded both here and in other places, especially through new churches.

Discovery Church Logo...

We're glad you asked about our logo. As we think about who God is and how He fits in our lives, we at discovery church find the need to continually

Discover God...

Grow with Jesus...

Serve our Community...

Team Leader & Pastor
Martin Spoelstra
Pastor Martin came to Bowmanville with his family in May of 2004 to begin the process of planting a new church.  Discovery Church is just beginning as of this September with the help of about 20 families from various churches.  Pastor Martin believes that ministry is done in teams and works closely with 3 Ministry directors.
E-mail: martin@discoverychurch.ca

Love Clarington Ministries Director
Debbie Glasbergen
Debbie's work with Discovery Church includes our Love Clarington outreach ministries and helping to develop in the people of Discovery Church a heart for those that do not yet know about Jesus.  Debbie and her husband George both are valued members of our team.
Email: glasbergen@rogers.com

Small Groups Ministries Director
Jim Wood
Jim looks after the development of small groups.  "Small Groups" is a funny word that church people use to describe a group of people attending Discovery Church that come together for either a common interest or for the study of the Bible.
Email: jj5wood@sympatico.ca

Worship Ministries Director
Jackie DeHaas
Jackie is a gifted musician who leads our worship ministries and all the administrative issues surrounding Sunday morning worship. Jackie and her husband Fred and their two children have been a blessing to Discovery Church.
Email: Jackie.dehaas@discoverychurch.ca

History

In the year 2000, a group of leaders from Rehoboth Christian Reformed Church, were invited to attend a conference in Minneapolis at Wooddale Church. Wooddale is a large healthy growing church much like many others except for one key difference. It has church-planting running through its veins. In fact it has helped birth nine other new churches out of its own congregation over the last 20 years.

Out of this conference Rehoboth CRC began looking into the possibility of planting a new church in the Municipality of Clarington. By May of 2003 they started looking for a missionary pastor to lead a core group from Rehoboth CRC to start this church. Pastor Martin Spoelstra was interviewed in the fall of that year and accepted the challenge to be the church planter. In May of 2005 Pastor Martin was commissioned to begin gathering a group of believers from Rehoboth CRC and the broader Christian Churches in the area to begin the process.

It is their hope to be a church where people can discover God, grow in a relationship with Jesus and be involved in serving the community of Clarington.