We envision to be a congregation that moves with a *Gospel-centred, Missional Spirituality*

As we become increasingly multi-ethnic and multi-generational, we pray that we may continually serve our city and the world alongside the many other churches in God’s Kingdom.

New Hope Fellowship (NHF) is the English Ministry of our parent church Light Presbyterian Church (LPC), and is an active member of the denomination: The Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad – English Presbytery (KPCA-EP). We are a tri-campus church located in Mississauga, Downtown Toronto and Uptown Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

We unite together through God’s love, where authentic and life-giving relationships are experienced, and where the children of God live and serve as His hands and feet in this world.

Transformed in God

As we experience true transformation in God, we desire to be His transforming agents for the people groups of the world. We strive to become an authentic place where we embrace one another by sharing God’s love and growing together in true fellowship. It is also an exciting place where we encourage one another to pursue God-given visions and callings.

We invite you to join us in this life-changing journey!

Our Vision

NHF is A HEALTHY CHURCH THAT MOVES WITH A GOSPEL-CENTRED MISSIONAL SPIRITUALITY

God expands His Kingdom through His church. Though we are imperfect and fall short, God still chooses to work through His people and the community of believers as His vessels. Therefore, it is our calling to build a healthy church in order to carry out God’s purpose. How do we define a healthy church? We can take a look at the church of Antioch in the book of Acts 11 as one of our biblical models.

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Gospel-Centred

The Antioch church gathered because of the Gospel and for the Gospel. They had to overcome many barriers between Hebraic Jews and Hellenistic Jews, in addition to the Jews and Gentiles in order to become one. When we look at the Antioch church, the members were able to overcome the cultural, political and ethnic barriers to build a church community only through the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We see evidence of this diversity in unity even within the leadership:

“Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.” Acts 13:1

34 years ago, Light Presbyterian Church (LPC) began as a Korean immigrant church. It was through the sacrifice and commitment of the first generation that the second and third generations were raised. However, God wants to expand His church to bring not only Korean Canadians but all of His people to Himself. Therefore, we as New Hope Fellowship (the English congregation of LPC) are called to build multi-generational, multi-ethnic and multi-campus ministries. However, what unites our community together is not the charisma of a certain leader or the plethora of programs offered, but the unchanging truth and power of the Gospel.

Missional

Those who truly understand the power of the Gospel, and are transformed by it, cannot help but be moved outwardly by its conviction. The power of the Holy Spirit creates the missional momentum. It gravitates toward people who do not know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour.

There is a huge difference between a church that does missions and a missional church. The Antioch church did not approach missions work as a project or program. Rather, it was their lifestyle and flowed naturally into their realities, resulting in congruity in how they lived both on the mission field and in their everyday lives.

A Gospel-centred church is a missional church that naturally stirs people to move outward. When we fail to move outwards, keeping the power of the Gospel within our own selves, we end up imploding internally. There are many families, church communities and organizations imploding internally because their focus is primarily on the internal matters of today. However, when we are able to shift our focus onto what God is doing beyond the walls of our family and church, we begin to experience the bigger purpose and power of God’s call in our lives and in our relationships. We as the church are called to live beyond ourselves for this reason. Students are called to study for a purpose beyond themselves. Professionals ought to pursue excellence beyond their own career goals.

God has blessed NHF as we continually move outwards by planting various campuses, partnering with other community churches and missions organizations, and mobilizing people who desire to live a missional life for God.

Cultivates Deep Spirituality

The power of the Gospel brings transformation from the inside out. There is no dichotomy between Sunday and everyday life, church and the workplace. The Antioch church was a model church to non-believers so powerfully that the disciples were named “Christians” for the first time:

“For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.” Acts 11:26

Christian meant ‘follower of Christ’ or ‘imitator of Christ.’ When the non-believers saw the disciples’ godly lifestyles, it was so evident to them that God was active and working both within the lives of the disciples and the community as a whole. The members of the Antioch church were not simply attendees but they each became a church on the move. And it was through their genuine faith and deep spirituality that the church was able to make such a great impact for God’s Kingdom. God is calling each one of us to become the church wherever we are each day.

God has given our church such an exciting vision to move forward and be part of His Kingdom work in the world. I would like to invite every one of you to join God’s adventure as we continue to grow into a healthy community of disciples that is Gospel-centred, lives with a missional DNA, and cultivates deep spirituality for His glory and purpose.

Rev. Jason Noh
Senior Pastor, New Hope Fellowship

Our History

1984

The seeds of New Hope Fellowship were planted long before this English ministry even came to be. Established in 1984 as a largely Korean immigrant church, Light Presbyterian Church (formerly known as Light Korean Presbyterian Church) was the calling and vision of its first pastor, Rev. Chai-Hoon Park.

1990

LPC partnered with and was eventually led by Rev. Hyeon-Soo Lim.

1993

The purchase of a large warehouse building in Etobicoke allowed the people and ministry to continue its growth. Over the next 10 years, by God’s grace, the church grew to approximately 2,500 faithful members.

2001

It was in 2001 that the vision was birthed for a new church building to be built in Mississauga that would not only accommodate the growth of God’s church, but also allow His ministry to flourish even further through a focus on missions locally and abroad.

2004

In the summer of 2004, Pastor Jason Noh and Helen Noh accepted the call with their daughters Hayle and Karys to return to Toronto after 7 years of study and pastoral ministry in California to help nurture, disciple and shepherd the second generation English-speaking congregation and lead the English Ministry, called New Hope Fellowship.

2006

Within only two short years thereafter, it became evident that God was stirring in the hearts of our leadership and members for the need to plant a church campus in the heart of downtown Toronto and start a second English service held in the afternoon to reach the students of surrounding universities, colleges and the people who resided in nearby areas. The start of this new campus and service was achieved in January 2006.

2009

On May 31, 2009, after years of visioning, planning and construction, LPC and NHF officially moved from the warehouse building in Etobicoke to the new building in Mississauga where it has continued to grow and thrive.

2016

In 2016, Pastor Jason Noh was passed by the session to be the Senior Pastor in shepherding the entire LPC congregation (both Korean-Ministry and English-Ministry).

Our Beliefs

KPCA-EP Creed

The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the Word of God, the only inerrant, perfect rule of faith and deed.
There is only one God, and man shall worship only Him alone; God is the Spirit, self-existent and omnipresent, distinguishing Himself from all other gods. The creator God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and love.
There are three Persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; He is the triune God, one in trinity, equal in power and glory.
God created all things visible and invisible by the power of His Word and preserves and governs them, but God in His nature causes no sin. He acts all things by His plan according to His own will and governs all things to fulfill His purpose which is good, wise and holy.
God created man, after His own image in knowledge, righteousness and holiness with dominion over every living thing. All men of the world are of sole source: that is same native and brother.
Our first parents, being left to the freedom to choose between good and evil, through the temptation, transgressed the commandment of God. All mankind, descending from Adam by ordinary generation, sinned in him and fell with him in transgression. The man, having the possibility to commit a crime except the original sin and corrupted the nature of mankind has intentionally committed sin: so we are justly liable to God’s just displeasure and punishments in this world and that which is to come.
God sent His eternal, only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to the world to save man from sin, the corruption and the punishment there-of, to give eternal life in His infinite love; in Jesus Christ God became flesh and through Him can man be saved. The eternal Son became true man and possessed two distinctive personhoods in His nature, eternally as true God and true man, in two distinct natures, and one person forever. He being conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance, born of her, yet without sin. He obeyed perfectly the law of God, offered His body, became a true and perfect sacrifice and satisfied divine justice. For the purpose of reconciliation between God and man, He was crucified on the cross, died and buried. On the third day, He rose again from the dead. He is sitting on the right hand of God making intercession for his people. From thence He shall come for the resurrection of the dead and to judge the world.
The Holy Spirit being out of God the Father and God the Son, works salvation in man, convicts man of his sin and misery, enlightens man’s heart to know Christ, renews man’s will, exhorts him, empowers him to accept Jesus Christ who freely offers man the Gospel in grace, and also works in us to bear the fruit of God’s righteousness.
Before God created the world, He elected in His love His own people to make them holy and blameless. He predestined and adopted His children through Jesus Christ according to His pleasure and will, to the praise of the glory of His grace bestowed freely in one He loves. However, the perfect salvation offered freely is so ordered to all mankind that they may repent of their sins, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour, rest upon Him and follow Him, obey the revealed will of God, be humble and conduct themselves in holiness, to the extent that whoever believes in Christ and is obedient to Him shall be saved. The particular benefits that are accompanied with justification, adoption as God’s children, sanctification and glorification are for the believers who are assured with God’s salvation and joy in this world. The means of the grace to the call of office by the Holy Spirit are the Bible, sacraments and prayer in particular.
The sacraments instituted by Christ are baptism and the Holy Communion; baptism of washing with water to be administered in the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, is the sign and seats of joining us in union with Christ, and the promise for our regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit and God’s possession of us. Baptism shall be administered to those who make confession of faith in Christ, and to their children; Holy Communion as partaking of the bread and the cup shall be observed in remembrance of Christ’s death, and in the witness of the seal for the benefit derived from Christ’s death with which the believers are in union. The Holy Communion shall be observed by God’s people until the day of the Lord’s coming, and is a sign of a promise of more faithful service unto the Lord and a sign of communion with the Lord and His people, who believe in Him, and rest upon His atonement from which God’s benefit flows to us. The benefits of the sacraments are not found in the sacraments themselves or any virtue of him by whom the sacraments are being administered, but only in the blessing by Christ and the working of the Holy Spirit in those who by faith receive the sacraments.
All believers shall dutifully join in church membership with instruction, have fellowship with one another among the believers, observe the sacraments and other ordinances, obey all the laws of the Lord, pray always, observe the Lord’s Day, assemble with believers to worship the Lord, listen attentively to the preaching of the Word of God, render offerings as God provides us abundantly, share with one another the mind of Christ, share also the same mind with all other people, endeavour to promote the expansion of the Kingdom of Christ upon the whole world, and wait expectantly for the appearance of the Lord in His glory.
The dead shall receive the reward according to the good and evil done in this world before the judgment seat of Christ when they will be resurrected on the last day. Those who believe in Christ and are obedient to Him shall be truly forgiven and accepted by Him in glory.

While we agree that faith is not so much a ‘noun’ but more of a ‘verb’, the English word creed comes from the Greek credo, which simply means ‘I believe.’ Everyone has beliefs about what the Bible teaches, and though people sometimes claim to have “no creed but Christ,” we find on closer questioning they often have very different ideas about who Jesus was and what He did for us. We believe having written statements of essential beliefs—creeds as well as their longer cousins, confessions—help us clarify our convictions and distinguish ourselves from others who profess Christ but perhaps believe wrongly.

From ancient times Christians have expressed themselves in writing as a way to prevent confusion, pass on truth and hold the Church accountable to the historic landmarks of our Catholic (one true Church) and Protestant heritage. Our doctrinal standards are not above the Bible but simply reflect how we have interpreted the Bible on key issues.

Read the full Westminster Confession of Faith or access the shorter version here.

We envision to be a congregation that moves with a Gospel-centred, Missional Spirituality