2014 - Pastor Nelson Bowen quit his job to devote himself fully ministry the vision God gave him. He spent the next two years assembling a team that shared the same conviction in seeing a generation healed and a city changed through the hope of Jesus Christ.
2016 - Opened our doors with 187 people in attendance. In the first year, we saw more than 115 people give their life to Christ, and gave over 10% of income to local community non-profits and organizations around the world.
2020 - Became iNgage Community Church and started construction on our own permanent campus.
Nelson Bowen is the Lead Pastor of iNgage Community Church. He was born in Fayetteville, NC in 1989, but raised in the Greater Washington, D.C. area. From an early age, Nelson’s mother began raising him in the church, which earned him the nickname Bishop by the age of 7.
By the age of 11, Nelson’s mother remarried and this proved to be difficult for him to handle. He was eventually expelled from his Christian school and faced a crossroad internally on the kind of life he wanted to live. Nelson spent his senior year in high school devoting his life to Christ, choosing not to play basketball, and devoting that time to learning the word of God on a deeper level.
Nelson graduated from high school in 2007 and enrolled at Salisbury University where he began a bible study. During his freshman year in college, while seeing hundreds of students gather for his study, he was convinced he wanted to be used by God to impact an entire generation. He realized he was spending more time preparing a message than he was studying for a midterm. After two years at Salisbury, Nelson moved to St. Louis to intern at Joyce Meyer Ministries and enroll at Pillsbury College and Seminary. Over the next 6 years Nelson began speaking to churches, youth groups and conferences. Yet, there was a deep desire inside of him to see the community where he went to high school impacted by the love of God.
In 2014, God began to speak to Nelson about the community of Waldorf and shared a vision of leading a community church where people could grow, lives could be transformed, and the community directly impacted. With this vision, Nelson quit his job in October 2014 to devote himself fully to the vision of iNgage. He spent the next two years assembling a team that shared the same conviction in seeing a generation healed and a city changed through the hope of Jesus Christ. One of those team members happened to be Archelle Harrison, whose last name changed to Bowen on July 30, 2015.
There is one God who is sovereign in every aspect. The triune Godhead consists of The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit, who are eternally self-existent, self-revealed, and function as one and are one. Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, has the fullness of the Godhead within Him, and became the “Unblemished Sacrificial Lamb” for the purpose of redeeming lost and sinful man back to God. God is Father in His creative work, Son in His redemptive work, and The Holy Ghost at work in the world. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Ephesians 4:5-6; Philippians 2:9-11; Colossians 2:9; 1 John 5:7)
Jesus will come again to gather all of His Saints unto Himself to reign with Him eternally. (John 14:1-6; 1 Corinthians 15:51‑58; 1 Thessalonians. 4:16‑17)
We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells all believers, and through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit believers are empowered for Christian service, and gifted for this service. An evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gives utterance. The Holy Spirit also enables believers to live a Christ-like life exhibiting Godly character (Luke 11:13, Acts 1:8, 2:1-4, 8:17, 10:44-46, 19:6, Gal. 5:22-23, 1 Cor. 12).
Man who is triune; spirit, soul and body, was created good, upright, and in the image and likeness of God, and voluntarily transgressed and fell. Redemption for man is in Jesus Christ, The Son of God. (Genesis 1:26‑27, 3:1‑8; Romans 5:12‑21)
We believe that salvation is by faith and through grace alone. No amount of good works will produce justification before God. We further believe that the manifestation of faith and grace is a holy life expressed through righteous works (Eph. 2:8-10).
The Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible rule of faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason. (Hebrews 4:12)
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