Vision and Values

Our Mission:

Reaching Villages | Changing Lives

Our Vision:

To be a center for families, helping them in their struggles, and leading them into a life-changing and ever-growing relationship with Jesus Christ.

Our Core Values:

Authenticity - Come as You are. 
Community - Do Life Together.
Service - Saved people Serve.
Outreach - Found people Find people.
Commitment - Changed people Grow.
Stewardship - You Can’t Out-GIVE God.
Worship - Worship Is That Thing We Do

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What We Believe

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Our History
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In 1929, Reverend Frank Prucia, a minister of the Poynette and Inch Methodist churches invited Reverend Roy Fyles, a Pentecostal minister, to conduct evangelistic services at the Inch church. 

After these services were over, meetings were held on Sunday afternoon at the Edgar Curtis home in Lowville, and later moved to the North Lowville Rocky Run School house. ​

The Baptist Church in Rio

On July 3, 1935, under the leadership of Pastor George Price and District Superintendent R.L. Scharnick, the group was organized and affiliated with the General Council of the Assemblies of God.

The original church building on Highway 16

December 1, 1939, papers were signed for the purchase of the Baptist church in Rio for $500, when Reverend Edwin Ziemann was pastor. Later, while Reverend Oscar Holmstrom was pastor, the house across the street was purchased for a parsonage. ​

In July 1974, Dennis Stilson sold the church land, where the present church is located, for $1.00 and turned that $1.00 into the church treasurer. In June 1975, the present church on Highway 16 was dedicated. 

​The parsonage next door was built two years later, and the carport on the church building was added and completed in 1986.

In August 2018, we changed our name from Rio Assembly of God to Family Life Center under the leadership of Reverend Shaun Hardie.

Rio Assembly of God church after additions were completed in 1986