We exist to help people know, love, and follow Jesus

Our Values

As we do ministry as a church, our values are our top priorities in helping us stay focused on proclaiming the gospel and helping people know, love, and follow Jesus.

  • The gospel is the foundation of everything we do. The truth, goodness, and beauty of the gospel changes us and impacts all areas of our lives. In everything, we will point to the gospel and the hope we have in Jesus.

  • God hears our prayers and desires for us to be in fellowship with Him. And so, in all things and all areas of life and ministry, we seek the Lord in prayer.

  • God has created us for relationships and connection. We desire to be a real community that seeks to follow Christ as we walk through life together.

  • We are called to not just be a church in Loveland, but to be a church that exists for Loveland. We will be a blessing, not a burden, to our community.

  • God's work is bigger than we can accomplish on our own. In our ministries, groups, and church partnerships, we are committed to equipping and sending out leaders to multiply our impact.

Caleb and Brittany Background Loveland
Pastor Caleb and Brittany Family in Loveland

Our Story

In 2023, Caleb and Brittany Haynes moved their family from Minnesota to Northern Colorado to plant a church in partnership with Faith Church in Fort Collins and the Rocky Mountain District of the EFCA. They moved to the area with a heart for reaching those who have left the church and walked away from their faith. Having been raised in the church and served in the church for a decade together, the Haynes want people to experience the life-change that comes through the gospel and the beauty of what the church is meant to be.

Alongside a team of people from Faith Church, the Haynes are planting Pioneer Grove Church in Loveland, Colorado. The name “Pioneer Grove” is inspired by pioneer trees, the first species of trees to grow back in an area burned by a wildfire. Just like pioneer trees bring about restoration and flourishing, it is our prayer that Pioneer Grove Church will be a place of spiritual restoration and flourishing for the people of Loveland.

Our Beliefs

Pioneer Grove is planted in association with the Rocky Mountain District of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA). We hold to the EFCA Statement of Faith which unites us together around our core convictions and beliefs.

  • We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

  • We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.

  • We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.

  • We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

  • We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

  • We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.

  • We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.

  • We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.