RIO East At 

Rockford

RIO East at Rockford Church is a church associated with the RIO Network in East Tennessee. RIO is an acronym that stands for Restoration International Outreach. Currently, RIO has several churches spread over East TN, as well as numerous church-plants around the globe. RIO has a passion for world-missions, as well as taking the gospel to our own neighborhoods.

Our church is a body of believers who come together to Worship Jesus. We believe in: The Word of God, Prayer, Helping the Helpless, and seeing souls being added to the Kingdom of God.

Our church is underneath the Church of God denomination based out of Cleveland, TN. To find out more about our doctrinal teachings and beliefs read our Statement of Faith.

​We are a close-knit, family-oriented church that is passionate about seeing our community transformed by the power of the Holy Ghost and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here we believe in being led by the Holy Spirit.

Statements of Faith

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, His virgin birth, sinless life, divine miracles, vicarious and atoning death on the cross, bodily resurrection, ascension and exaltation, mediatorial work, and personal, imminent, and visible return in power and glory.

We believe in God the Holy Spirit, who indwells all believers, enabling them to live holy lives and to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ despite opposition from the world, the flesh and Satan.

We believe that the Holy Scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, were originally given by God, divinely inspired, without error, infallible, and are entirely trustworthy and the supreme authority in all matters of faith and practice.

We believe that Adam and Eve, created in the image of God, were tempted by Satan, the god of this world, and fell; that their sin has passed to all people, who as a result are lost, are unable to save themselves from the wrath of God, and need to be saved.

We believe that salvation is a gift of God to those who repent and personally believe in Jesus Christ; that it is accomplished by God’s grace through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they who are saved unto the resurrection of eternal life with God, they who are lost unto the resurrection of eternal condemnation separated from God.

We believe in the spiritual unity of all true believers, the Universal Church, the Body of Christ.

We believe that Christ commanded the Church to go into all the world and make disciples of all peoples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and teaching those who believe to obey all that Christ commanded.