Our Story
“But I received mercy… But I received mercy…”
1 Timothy 1:13, 16
Mercy Hill Community Church is a congregation that was planted/replanted in September of 2023. We currently meet for worship and fellowship in the city of Fullerton, a city “renowned for its unique mix of residential, business, educational and cultural environments” with members from the greater Orange County and the nearby Los Angeles County. We are a ragtag group of chief sinners who are freely graced, loved and mercied by God into an utterly undeserved gospel-sainthood that has brought us into a greater and newer yet challenging and grinding reality of living life as followers of Christ while in this fallen world on our way to glory as simultaneously saints and sinners (“Simul Justus Et Peccator” - Martin Luther). We are therefore a group of very imperfect people in the flesh who cling to a very perfect Savior by faith whose gospel of grace, love and mercy we are confidently yet contritely convinced of, compelled by and committed to.
“The glory of God is available to you in the church in a way it’s not available to you anywhere else… There is no more important means of discipleship than deep involvement in the life of the church.”
Tim Keller
SERVANT - Leadership
Moses Cho
“So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’”
1 Peter 5:1-5
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Moses Cho (Mo’)
Mo’ serves as an Elder/Pastor of Mercy Hill Community Church. He is a graduate of Biola University (B.A.), The Master’s Seminary (M.Div.) and Talbot School of Theology (Th.M.). He cheers for the San Antonio Spurs (“Go Spurs Go”). He and his wife, Heon, have two children.
Moses is committed to preaching God’s law and God’s gospel, exposing great slaves of sin to their gracious Savior from sin and delivering sinners as saints (“Simul Justus et Peccator”). His prayer is that Mercy Hill will be a place where striving yet struggling people can call home, find help, gain hope and experience healing in and through the gospel.
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“May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins.”
Martin Luther