We believe in God,
whose love and grace includes everyone.

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We believe in Jesus Christ,
whose life, teachings, death, resurrection, and reign
reveal God’s work of reconciliation, healing, and wholeness.

We believe in God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit, 
who is active in the world and in peoples’ lives.

We believe that we are called
to watch for and participate in what God is doing
in bringing about the flourishing of life for all people.

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This means that everyone is welcome,
in all their uniqueness.

We seek to be people of joy and hope, and wish to see all people, of every ethnicity, age, gender, and sexuality, lead free, full, and beautiful lives. We acknowledge that each person’s path is unique, and we strive to support one another on the journey, guided by the Spirit and by what we read together in the Scriptures. For us, church is Christ together with his people, and all are welcome.

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We are committed to being good neighbours.

We aspire to care for and serve people beyond ourselves, to forge good relationships, and care for the earth. We wish to put our words, actions, and resources, including money, to good use in order to live in the way of Jesus, who…

  • Humbled himself

  • Ate with outcasts and people who were deemed “less than.”

  • Laid down his life for the sake of the world.

  • Forgave freely and asked us to forgive.

  • Flipped tables and called out the corrupt and unjust.

  • Fed the hungry, healed the sick, and loved people deeply.

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We are proud to be part of a national denomination, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, that does amazing work in our nation and around the world, supporting ministry, justice initiatives, ecumenical partnerships, development work, and more. Our denomination gives us a grounding in the historic Christian faith, as well as important guidance, support, and accountability in theology and governance.

In recent years, the Presbyterian Church in Canada has also called for change in particular areas of public life where the Church as a whole has not lived up to its calling of grace, justice, and love:

  • In 2024, The Presbyterian Church in Canada adopted a new apology for its complicity in colonization and the Residential School system. Building on a Confession offered in 1994, this apology includes five fundamental commitments for moving forward in the ongoing work of listening, truth-telling, and reconciliation with Indigenous people.

  • In 2023, The Presbyterian Church in Canada adopted a Confession that 1) acknowledged that racist values which assume the superiority of the dominant culture [White Europeans in the Canadian context] have shaped the church, 2) admitted the church’s failure to recognize the spiritual gifts of all persons, and 3) restated the church’s commitment to turn from the sin of racism.  

  • In 2022, The Presbyterian Church in Canada adopted a Confession to God and LGBTQI People, confessing the harm caused by homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism and hypocrisy in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and committing the Church to a true change of heart and behaviour.

At Prairie, we continue to reiterate the welcome and love of God for all people. We live this out through relationships within our congregation and in partnerships between our congregation and others, particularly the Indigenous Ministries within our local Presbytery of Winnipeg (Winnipeg Inner City Missions, Place of Hope Indigenous Presbyterian Church, and The Kenora Fellowship Centre).

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Read More About the Beliefs and Views of the Church

  • As part of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC), we believe the Bible has been given to us by the inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life. We also hold to the ecumenical creeds (see particularly the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed), and have 3 subordinate standards that guide our understanding of the faith: Living Faith, The Declaration of Faith Concerning Church and Nation, and The Westminster Confession of Faith. (See this “What We Believe Page” on the PCC Website)

  • Find out more about the PCC here: https://presbyterian.ca/about/

  • For more on the PCC’s work in Indigenous Justice, including the 2024 apology to Indigenous peoples and the 1994 Confession, visit here: https://presbyterian.ca/justice/social-action/indigenous-justice/

  • For more about the PCC’s work on anti-racism, visit here: https://presbyterian.ca/justice/social-action/anti-racism/

  • In 2022, the elders on the session at Prairie adopted a Statement on LGBTQI Persons and the Church (April 2022). This document outlines the PCC’s parallel definitions of marriage, our session’s understanding that leadership in the Church is not restricted by someone’s gender identity or sexuality, and how our community makes space for people who hold differing views on a variety of subjects, including sexuality. You will also find links at the end of the statement to many helpful resources from the Presbyterian Church in Canada.

Our congregation is located in Winnipeg, which is on Treaty One Land, first entrusted by Creator God to the Anishinaabeg, Anishininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Denesuline, Nehethowuk nations, the homeland of the Red River Métis.