Who we are…
For twelve years, we served as an outreach and discipleship ministry on the ASU Polytechnic campus. During the COVID shutdown, our advisory team invited us to take a sabbatical and consider what would be our focus for the next season of life.
After much prayer and counsel, we shifted our twelve years of campus ministry and twenty years of youth pastoral service in the Phoenix area to focus on discipling and mentoring pastors, church leaders, first responders, and military service members and their families.
Our family continues to grow from our 32-year marriage to our three beautiful and whole-hearted daughters, our three golden retrievers, Steve, the stray neighborhood chicken, and my two adopted sons, Taylor and Martin (guitars). Our oldest daughter is finishing up her education degree, our middle daughter is working with kids and horses at the ranch, and our youngest is getting ready to graduate high school.
What we believe…
- We believe the Bible to be the inspired, only, infallible, inerrant, authoritative Word of God.
- We believe in the One True God, the Sovereign, eternal Creator of all that exists, both seen and unseen. God is eternally existent in three persons, yet one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.
- We believe God created mankind in His image. Adam and Eve, the first human beings, chose to rebel against God and go their own way. As a result, all of mankind became separated from God; the image of God in man was distorted; mankind became subject to the power of the devil; and the sinful nature was passed on to all their progeny. Because of original sin, unregenerate human beings are incapable of pleasing or commending themselves to God. The only remedy for mankind's pitiful predicament is redemption through faith in Jesus Christ.
- We believe that when a person exercises saving faith in Christ he passes, immediately, out of spiritual death into spiritual life and from the old creation into the new, a new nature and a new heart imparted; being justified freely by grace, he is accepted before the Father as Christ, His Son, is accepted and loved as Christ is loved, having his place and portion linked to Christ and one with Christ—forever.
- We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
- We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost—they who are saved unto the resurrection of life and they who are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
- We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Partners:
Community Ministries International
Crystal Peak Youth Ranch (Bend, Oregon)
Resources:
Operation Restored Warrior
Bumble Bee Ranch (Bumble Bee, AZ)
Wild at Heart Ministry
The Allendar Center
To contact Ep!c Ministries:
Email: contactus@epicstory.org
Mail:
Community Ministries International
For: Greg and Sheli McFarland
P.O. Box 1245
Tempe, AZ 85280-1245
EPIC ministry is funded completely by donations. For tax-deductible contributions, please make checks
payable to “Community Ministries”
To give online by credit card or ACH withdrawal,
- click on the “GIVE NOW” button on the CMI website.
- Then designate funds for “McFarland, Greg and Sheli” from the drop-down menu and fill out the online form. Thank you!