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OUR CORE VALUES
     -  We know our neighbors
     -  We share Good News
     -  We rest in grace
     -  We work with faith

OUR MISSION
Growing a Community around the Good News of Jesus.
OUR VISION
To be the most easily-accessible source of Good News for our community.

MEET OUR PASTOR
The Mattek family is passionate about building communities around the Good News of Jesus. 
Pastor Mattek earned his Masters in Theology from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 2004. He then began his ministry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving until 2018 as the pastor of a large, diverse, and multi-ethnic church in one of Americaā€™s most segregated cities. While there, he greatly enjoyed watching the Good News of Jesus create a beautiful unity and harmony among a group with so many different backgrounds, histories, ethnicities, and life experiences. 
Pastor Mattek extended his ministry to the media world in 2017 when he partnered with Time of Grace Ministries, a leading Biblical content provider for television and social media. 
In 2018, the Mattek family moved to Greenville, Wisconsin, where Pastor Mattek served in various pastoral roles through 2022, not the least of which was helping lead the largest church in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod through the extraordinary challenges presented by COVID, keeping the congregation united, grounded on, and encouraged by the Good News of Jesus.
The Mattek family moved to the rapidly-growing area of Conroe, Texas in August of 2022 to plant a church where the Good News of Jesus is easily found. 
Jeremy is married to Karen, a licensed teacher with experience in both Early Childhood and Elementary education. Karen is passionate about helping children find the unique joys that come from knowing all that Jesus has so lovingly done for them.
The Lord has entrusted to their care 5 children, each of whom bring unique strengths to the building of this new church, and all of whom bring deep joy to their parents. Also living in the Mattek home is Luna, their Siberian Husky, who doesnā€™t seem to mind the Texas heat.
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WHAT WE BELIEVE
All that we believe and teach comes from the Bible, which is Godā€™s perfect Word.  We believe that the entire Bible has been given to us by God for the sole purpose of pointing all people to Jesus as the Savior of the world.  Because the message of the Bible does not change, it is an always-reliable source of guidance, spiritual rest, and peace.
There are three easy ways to learn more about what we believe and teach:
  • You can follow this link. 
  • You can watch Pastor Mattekā€™s Bible Breath videos, which provide a deeper dive into Biblical doctrine.
  • Or you can sign up for the TheMission Mindset Bible classes, taught in-person by Pastor Mattek, which we see as the best way to grow in faith while also making new friends.  This 12-week course, offered multiple times a year, is designed to explain how Godā€™s plan of salvation through Jesus is what connects each of us to our daily and life-long purpose.
    • If you are interested in attending the next TheMission Mindset course, please click HERE and submit the short form provided.
    • Anyone interested in making TheMission their home church is required to complete this course.
OUR HISTORY
While TheMission is a new local church, it is being planted in partnership with a body of Christians called the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). The WELS has been carrying out ministry around the world since the 1800s.

What is the WELS?
Wisconsin is the place where this church body was originally founded, though you can find WELS Christians all over the world. 
Evangelical comes from the Greek word for ā€œGospelā€ or ā€œGood News.ā€ All WELS churches are grounded on the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus as the Savior of the world. Because the word ā€œevangelicalā€ has recently been used to describe certain political leanings, we donā€™t use this word much any longer to describe ourselves, though we still are, and always will be, entirely grounded on the Good News of Jesus, which impacts all areas of our life. 
Lutheran connects the beginning of this group of Christians with the historic movement known as the Protestant Reformation, begun by a man named Martin Luther. Out of his ministry came three foundational beliefs, all of which we ascribe to: 
  • Scripture Alone ā€“ The Bible is all true, without error, and trustworthy. All of our teachings are based on what the Bible teaches, and not on human tradition, feelings, or opinions.  
  • Faith Alone ā€“ We are eternally saved entirely by faith in Jesus. Not by a cooperative effort between us and God. Not by our own merit or good deeds. Jesus alone accomplished all that was needed to save us. We put our faith entirely in him. 
  • Grace Alone ā€“ ā€œGraceā€ is a word the Bible uses to express the truth that God freely chooses to treat us in the opposite way compared to what we deserve. We deserve to be punished by God on account of our sinfulness, yet God chooses to love us. He showed this love by sending Jesus to forgive all of our sins. We deserve to suffer in hell for eternity, yet God chooses to give us a place in heaven. We are not saved by what we do or by what we are, but entirely by what Jesus did for us. 
Synod comes from another Greek word, one that has the idea of ā€œwalking together on the same road.ā€ A synod is a group of Christians walking together through life, believing the same things about the Bible, encouraging one another along the way, and accomplishing more together for Jesus than any of us could accomplish on our own.