Diamond Valley Church Welcome Home
Rob and Angi CosciaRob and Angi ministered in NE PA for over 15 years before starting DVC. Before that, they were on staff in St. Paul, Minnesota, and helped plant a church in West Springfield, Massachusetts.Their heart is to see people realize the amazing life that God has for them, and train them to live that life to its fullest. Rob and Angi are both credentialed with the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening.
They have two amazing teens, Kim and Robbie, both of whom minister in the prophetic and healing.
Tim and Bethany HuhBethany and Tim's passion is not just music, but the presence of God, and their life revolves around Him. She was trained at Hillsongs Australia and has written worship songs that break boundaries and open doors to heaven.
Tim is an extremely accomplished musician and technician and has been extensively trained in the prophetic. We are so blessed to have their leadership and heart. Time and Bethany have one child, Caleb.
Rick and Jen BlaineRick and Jen come to us from years of distinguished service in the Army, including Iraq; they have worked extensively with military chaplaincy and as youth pastors. They have repeatedly been recognized for having a revivalist call on their lives.
We are honored and blessed to have their experience, creativity, and vision for what God wants to do here at DVC, our area, and the world. Rick and Jen have three amazing children.
We Seek
Love
We seek to be an overflowing expression of Father God's unconditional love, first to our families, then to the world. We seek to be established in rest, and to live and minister out of intimacy with God. We seek to be a fulfillment of turning the hearts of fathers to the children and children's hearts to the fathers. We seek to be in a consistent, healthy, growing state of Loving God,
Loving People, and Loving Life.
(Malachi 4, John 16:27, Ephesians 3:16-19)
Wholeness
We seek to let Christ be formed in us daily, the goal being nothing missing and nothing broken in our physical, spiritual, and emotional lives. We seek to let Him redeem and heal past wounds and present conflicts so there is no hindrance to future promises. We seek to create atmospheres in which all are able to move into deeper levels of love, restoration, healing, rest, maturity, unity,
and freedom.
(John 14.27, 2 Corinthians 5:17,
Galatians 5:1)
Grace
We seek to put love into action by creating a culture of honor, viewing each person as one of God's creations, possessing a destiny of inestimable importance and worthy of great respect. We seek to overflow with the grace given to us by God, creating an environment in which fruit happens naturally wherever we are and in whatever circumstance we are in. We seek to be a 'home' of grace, life, joy, peace, encouragement, and love. A house of healthy confrontation that holds each other accountable to the dreams
God has put in us.
(Ephesians 2:8-10, 4:29,
2 Corinthians 5:16, 1 Peter 2:17 )
Integrity
We seek lives of integrity and holiness, conforming our actions to our words in order to build foundations of trust, security, and intimacy in our relationships. We seek to be transparent and open, hiding nothing from our fellow man or from God. We seek to develop healthy interdependent relationships with spiritual fathers, mothers, and mentors who will speak the truth in love to us and help hold us accountable for lifestyles of
love, purity, and innocence.
(1 John 1:5-9, Galatians 5:16-26,
Romans 12:1-2)
Worship
We seek to live blessing the Lord at all times, becoming living expressions of thanks and praise and worship. We seek to be sensitive to His Presence and responsive to His leading. We seek to prophetically declare and demonstrate His majesty, goodness, and grace to all generations. We seek an open heaven- our hearts and voices in synch with the realities of His kingdom.
We seek Him with our whole hearts.
(Psalm 145, John 10:27, Revelation 5)
Overflow
We seek for every nation to experience the love of God through salvation in Jesus Christ and by the love that Christians have for one another, overflowing with all that He is doing in us. We seek to demonstrate God's love and salvation not only in word, but in power: healing the sick, raising the dead, delivering those held captive, and daily seeing signs, wonders, and miracles. We seek to be the living representation of the message of the Gospel, His kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven, occupying and blessing the earth in all facets of life until His physical return.
(Matthew 28:19-20, John 13:34-35,
14:12-14, 1 Thessalonians 1:5)
Impartation
We seek to equip every believer to successfully live their God-given destiny, making disciples through five-fold ministry and creating opportunities for victory in pursuit of extraordinary lives in Christ. We seek to impart spiritual gifts to bless and empower everyone to fulfill their callings. We seek to lay foundations that future generations can build upon in going far beyond us in knowing, loving, and serving God.
(Psalm 45:17, Romans 1:11,
Ephesians 4:11-16)
Whew! We believe and seek even more good stuff, but that's enough for now.
Did you really read all that?
Why "Diamond Valley"?
Here in Northeastern Pennsylvania, our history is full of hard-working people who dug deep into the earth to provide the nation with coal. Our forefathers sacrificed themselves to literally light up the world. The mines have closed, but the heritage of digging for treasure goes on.
God sees our area as the richest of mines, not in coal, but in diamonds. Every person is a gem of inestimable worth, and each person has the potential to light up the world like never before, to have lives beyond imagination.
Our desire is that you would feel at home here, free to discover that amazing life.A life in which you enjoy the love, rest, and joy of the Father. A life in which you experience the freedom Jesus has purchased for you. A life in which you daily encounter the diamond-polishing, world-lighting power of the Holy Spirit.
Welcome Home.
Diamond Valley is a member of ANGA, the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening
"Overflow" is a painting by April Scheller that is worth
far more than a thousand words describing what God is doing among and through us!
But in case you do need words...
We Believe there is only one living and true God who is the eternal King, Creator and Redeemer of all that is.
He is infinite and perfect in goodness, kindness, wisdom, justice, power, holiness, truth, grace, and love. He has revealed Himself to be eternally self-existent as one being in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
We Believe the Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative Word of God. The Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of the Scripture so that the Bible is “God-breathed.” We receive the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments as our final, absolute authority, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
We Believe humankind was created in the image of God for relationship, to know and enjoy Him, yet we willfully rejected the Lordship and glory of God for which we were intended. Because of this, sickness, death and judgment entered the world and now creation experiences the effects and consequences of sin. All people are sinners by nature and choice, and therefore are under God's just judgment. God established the law to make us conscious of our moral responsibility. By the work of God's Spirit, it convicts us of our sin and points us to Jesus Christ alone for salvation.
We Believe that in the fullness of time, God honored His covenants with Israel and His promises of salvation by sending His only Son, Jesus, into the world. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, fully God and fully man in one person, He is humanity as God intended us to be. In His sinless, perfect life, Jesus met the demands of the law and in His atoning death on the cross He took God's judgment for sin which we deserve as lawbreakers. By His death on the cross He disarmed the demonic powers, providing freedom from the power of the enemy's lies, sickness and torment, as well as sin. Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day, fulfilling the covenant of blessing given to Abraham. His glorious resurrection, His ascent into heaven, and His present rule at the right hand of the Father demonstrate He is truly God's Son.
We Believe we are saved by God's grace, through faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Anyone can be restored to fellowship with God through repenting, believing and receiving Jesus as their Savior and Lord. The Holy Spirit, convicts, regenerates, justifies, and adopts us as we enter the Kingdom of God as His sons and daughters.
We Believe the Church consists of all who put their faith in Jesus Christ. All who repent of their sins and trust Jesus as Lord and Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and form the living Body of Christ, of which He is the head and all are members. The Church exists to carry on the ministry of Jesus Christ and further advance His kingdom by undoing the works of the enemy, preaching and living the good news of God's love, discipling the nations, baptizing and teaching them to love and obey God. He gave His church the ordinances of Baptism and Communion. These are imparters of God’s grace when appropriately received by faith, and are means by which we uniquely and wonderfully experience God.
We Believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live holy and minister supernaturally. The Spirit brings the permanent indwelling presence of God to us for spiritual worship, personal sanctification, building up the Church, gifting us for ministry, and driving back the kingdom of Satan by the evangelization of the world through proclaiming the word of Jesus and doing the works of Jesus. We believe in the present ministry of the Spirit and in the exercise of all biblical gifts of the Spirit. We practice the laying on of hands for the empowering of the Spirit, for healing, for impartations of gifts of the Holy Spirit and for recognition and empowering of those whom God has ordained to lead and serve the church. We believe Jesus Christ is the one who baptizes us in the Holy Spirit, as a conscious experience, for ministry today.
We Believe that God's kingdom has come in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, that it continues to come in the ministry of the Spirit through the Church, and that it will be fulfilled in the glorious, visible, and triumphant appearing of Christ His return to the earth as King. After Christ returns to reign, He will bring about the final defeat of Satan, his forces and their works. There will be a resurrection of the dead and a final judgment, concluding in an eternal blessing of the righteous and eternal separation of the wicked in a place called hell. There will be a new heaven and earth, recreated by His mighty power, in which righteousness dwells and in which He will forever be worshiped.
