What is Yellow Rhino Ministries and why is it needed?

Yellow Rhino Ministries is a 501c3 non-profit ministry that was started in 2019. When Chris first visited Nairobi in 2018 she felt a calling to extend Christ's love and mercy to orphans and children living in extreme poverty.  Education is vital for these children. Some of these children do not have enough to eat and some are sick. Some have been badly traumatized and some need Godly parenting and training. Some just need encouragement and to see someone living out their faith. Our aim is meet as many of these physical needs as we can for our select students, and then address their spiritual need - and make disciples. We chose Yellow Rhino Ministries for our new name because our goal is that our students will stand firm in their faith (like the Rhino who does not back down) and shine the light of Jesus wherever they go.

Our Yellow Rhino Statement of Faith aligns with that of our home church, Calvary Church in Charlotte, NC. Here is what we believe and teach our students:

  1. We believe the 66 books of the Old and New Testament to be verbally inspired by God.

  2. We believe in one Godwho is Creator of heaven and earth.

  3. We believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, the eternal Word manifested in flesh.

  4. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.

  5. We believe that our Lord arose from the dead.

  6. We believe that our Lord bodily ascended to heaven.

  7. We believe in our Lord’s personal, imminent and premillennial return for His redeemed ones.

  8. We believe that man was originally created in the image and after the likeness of God, and that he fell through sin.

  9. We believe that all who receive by faith alone, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.

  10. We believe that the Holy Spirit, being the third person of the God-head, convicts men of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes, seals and sets believers apart to a holy life.

  11. We believe in the eternal security and everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the eternal conscious punishment of the lost.

  12. We believe that Christ instituted the only two ordinances of water baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and commanded them to be observed until He returns.

  13. We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is composed solely of those who have been redeemed and washed in His blood, regenerated and sealed by the Holy Spirit, and that they are saved to worship and to serve.

  14. We believe there is a personal devil, a being of great cunning and power.

  15. We believe that from the beginning of creation God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female; they are equal but different.

  16. We believe that each person is created in the image of God.

    If you would like more details on this statement of faith, you can visit the Calvary Church website, and you can always ask us any questions you may have regarding what we believe and teach.