Our Heart

We are a church united. We desire to be part of a community full of people from all walks of life, cultural differences, racial realities, and economic perspectives, all knit together to worship the One True King Jesus Christ. 

Church should be much more than just a one hour service on Sunday. To that end, we are a church that emphasizes community and relationships all week long through FIND Groups, events, and faith growing opportunities.  

OUR MISSION

To lead and love our diverse community of Jackson together in Christ.

 
OUR GOal

We believe God’s love is for everyone, and through community, we can find faith, freedom, and love.

We meet every Sunday @ 141 E. Michigan Ave, Jackson MI 49201

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OUR LEADERSHIP

Chris Heydenburg
Lead Pastor

Growing up in Jackson, I always knew how much I loved our community. It has always been so special to me. As my relationship with God grew, my burden for the people in our community grew as well. What I was beginning to experience with the Lord, was something God was compelling me to share with those around me. Eventually, this burden for people and this profound relationship with God, led me to pursue the ministry and eventually become a pastor. What began as a passion, became my purpose. I live to serve God and people and I do so now through this beautiful church we call Found.

 
Corey Lewis
Executive Pastor, worship director

I have been a lifelong Christian and developed a heart for people at a young age. I turned that love for people into an almost 30 year career as a Paramedic/Firefighter. I’m now answering the call to full-time ministry as the Executive Pastor and Worship Director. As a district licensed pastor I am continuing to pursue my ordination in the Nazarene denomination.

Kamijha Thiebaut
Director of Rooted Children's ministries

Since I was adopted as a child I have been a part of the church. Even as a child, I’ve always wanted to work with children. I wanted to show them God’s love in the same way that my parents showed me love. At Spring Arbor University I studied to be a teacher so that I could work with children more effectively. It is my goal to help ensure that every child knows how much God loves them. My hope in working with the children of Found Church is to help them become rooted in church the way I have become.

 
JIM Fay
Treasurer

I have served as treasurer for the church since before it was started in 2019. It has been my desire to be part of a diverse community of believers that would be different than the churches that I had experienced before. Although I have always been attending church throughout my life, I committed my life to Christ in 1989. I moved to the Jackson area after college and have lived here ever since.

 

Our Values

  • You Jump I Jump

    The pain this world can inflict and the burdens of life’s struggles can weigh heavy on a person’s soul. Often, it is in our isolation that this weight seems to crush our spirit. No soul should ever carry this weight on it’s own. We will be a church ready to step out on a ledge to carry the weight heavy on another’s soul.

  • You Hurt I Hurt

    Charity is easy, compassion not so much. Most confuse sympathy with empathy. Christ’s compassion for us, and His eagerness to come to us in our pain sets our faith apart from any other. This is His command: that we are to love as He loved us. After all, His love led Him to a cross.

  • No Longer I But Christ In Me

    Ultimately if Christ’s love for us led Him to a cross, and if we are called to love as He loved us, then Christ is leading us through our own death – death to self. It is through this death that Christ alone takes up residence in our heart. Only here, will we be able and willing to love as He loved us.

  • I Want to Know Christ

    There is, of course, right doctrine and then not-so-right doctrine. But if right doctrine becomes our quest, then our journey is to the wrong thing. Christ and Christ alone is the right thing! In Phil 3:10 Paul shares for us his only quest; everything that Paul teaches in scripture is from that perspective

  • You Can't Offend Me

    Christians should be the least offendable people on the planet. Unfortunately, thats just not the reality. Christ had every right to be offended on so many levels and yet He denied His right of offense. Instead, He showed perfect patience, perfect response, and perfect love at each circum- stance of persecution. How will we ever show mercy and love if we are offended at every person or situation that seems against us?

  • My Ego Bye-Bye

    Self-interest, self-preservation, self-entitlement, self-pity – self, self, self. No matter which way you cut it, the hardest right to die to is the right to self. This mission will not see success in the light of self. Pride is always subtle. Whether obvious arrogance or disguised self-pity, pride will not allow us to see the bigger picture. The love of God and the love of others is the picture. Pride blinds us to that.

  • You Will Be Loved

    Almost as a proclamation: “feel free to test us in this.” If self is actually out of the picture, love will be easier. Jesus says, “it is by your love, that people will know you are my disciples.” So as a disciple, we lay down our right to withhold our love. If people leave unsatisfied with the preaching, fine. If they leave unsatisfied with the location, fine. It is not ok if any person leaves because they were not loved.

  • What Enemy?

    Jesus flips the paradigm when He says, “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” It is the position of our heart that we no longer consider even those who come against us as an enemy, but as a person who should be loved. You say “enemy.” I say “what enemy? I love you!”

Two radically transforming concepts

Diversity and Equity: they define who we are and how we grow to become what we should be.

History

Found Church was formed in 2017 when four couples began meeting around a kitchen table to pray and dream about a great adventure of church planting. For over a year 8 people fasted, prayed, and discussed the vision that God had laid upon their hearts for reaching the people in the community of Jackson MI.

In May of 2018 people were invited into the vision and mission of Found and we began to aim our church to a launch day of September 8th 2019.

We are a Nazarene Church initially supported and sent by JaxNaz in Jackson MI. The Nazarene denomination is from the Wesleyan Evangelical tradition and believes the Mission of the Church of the Nazarene is to make Christlike disciples in the nations.