WHO WE ARE
the veritas story
Veritas was born out of a desire to see a gospel-centered church community exist in Columbus. In the winter of 2007, church planters arrived in Columbus and began to meet with a handful of friends to pray and plan about starting Veritas. God provided friends and leaders to journey through planting a church. Through both times of disappointments and great encouragement, God continued to affirm that their hope of beginning Veritas was aligned with His.
October 5th, 2008 Veritas officially launched gatherings in an old church building on Neil Ave and Fourth Ave. The leaders prayed, toiled, and thankfully some people joined the family. God multiplied Veritas from a handful to a city-full with three congregations across Columbus!
Our hope and prayer since the beginning has not changed—we still desire to be transformed by the gospel to transform our city and the world with the gospel!
WE ARE REDEEMED BY JESUS TO MAKE DISCIPLES THROUGH REAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT RENEW COMMUNITIES WITH THE GOSPEL.
ONE CHURCH,
THREE CONGREGATIONS
We're one church because we're one people and the body of Christ together. We're one church because our family stretches across the city.
We're three congregations because none of our buildings could serve all of the communities we care about and it enables us to steward what God has given us more effectively.
WHAT DO WE BELIEVE?
our five rhythms
We’ve been transformed by Jesus into a renewed way of life together as a church.
WORSHIP
COMMUNITY
SERVICE
LEARNING
MISSIONS
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Since the beginning of the church documented in Acts 2, certain commitments have shaped how Christians engage with God, each other, and the world in which they live. We see these commitments echo throughout the New Testament and the history of the Church as core to what it means to be transformed by the gospel, filled with the Holy Spirit and live as a disciple of Jesus. At Veritas, we call these commitments rhythms and have identified five of them.
These five rhythms encompass the ways Jesus transforms our whole lives to live in light of who we are in the gospel. They define what it looks like to follow after Jesus and live how he lived.
They become our way of life together as a church and as disciples of Jesus; a Spirit-empowered means of grace that form us to know and love Jesus as we become more like him and join his kingdom work in the world.
The gospel transforms all things: our lives, our families, our church, our neighborhoods, our city, and our world.
In Jesus, there is hope—for you!
