The Fellowship of Life Church was founded by Greg Manalli, its Senior Pastor, in May of 1980. The vision and direction of the church has been incorporated within its name -- Fellowship of Life. The thrust of the church has been to bring people into a deeper fellowship with Jesus Christ and with one another, and to enjoy an abundant life full of the joy and purposes that God has for every individual.

In its early years, the church met in various places in Cheshire. As the church went through its growth stages, it was located in the surrounding communities of Southington and Wallingford before moving to its present location in 1985. With each move have come new opportunities and new challenges. All have worked to strengthen our character as a church and prepare us for the work the Lord has for us.
 

The Fellowship of Life is not only a local congregation in Cheshire, but also has a regional sphere of influence. Congregants come from all over Central Connecticut and beyond. In addition to our regular Sunday morning service and Wednesday evening prayer/worship meeting, we have a number of house churches which meet throughout Central Connecticut on a flexible schedule to maintain the direction and flow of the Holy Spirit's leading. These house church meetings give the believer opportunities to grow spiritually with one another and to learn to care for and intimately walk with members of the Body of Christ for their mutual well-being. In this way, Christ is brought to our neighborhoods and communities to touch people with God's love and purposes.

Fellowship of Life is contemporary in its style of worship, charismatic in ministry of the Holy Spirit, and fundamentally biblical.

Greg Manalli is the Senior Pastor and founder of the Fellowship of Life Church located in Cheshire, Connecticut. Prior to full-time ministry, Greg was an insurance executive and later owned his own successful business. He and Andrea live in Cheshire and have been married for over 40 years. They have two sons -- Jason and Luke, both of whom have graduated from college, are married, and are leading successful lives of their own.

Greg is first and foremost an Apostle, and oversees an anointed apostolic ministry called Ephesians Ministries International, an Apostolic Team taking its identity from Ephesians 4:11-16. Visit the EMI website at www.ephesiansministries.org.  He has had an apostolic call upon his life for many years and it is his desire to see the Church built upon the foundation of Jesus Christ, and that it come to know and experience the very fullness of Christ.

Fellowship of Life Church falls under this apostolic umbrella. Greg is a gifted church builder and is anointed in teaching, pastoring and the prophetic. His spheres of ministry are regional, national and international. His apostolic ministry to leaders and churches is multi-faceted and includes assisting them in strengthening church foundations and local church government, raising up the 5-fold ministry, and unifying and strengthening gift ministries. With the present outpouring of the Holy Spirit, he is being used to bring bodies into a deeper and more intimate fellowship with the Father and with each other, as well as enabling them to flow more freely with the Holy Spirit. Greg especially desires to see the character and call of the Church be in harmony and unity with God.

What We Believe

God's love is the fundamental basis of our church. We thank Him for Jesus' shed blood which provided forgiveness of sins and began the new covenant (New Testament) with God.

We believe in Jesus' substitutionary death, burial and resurrection.

Spiritual rebirth enables us to see God's Kingdom and enter it.  The rebirth has transforming powers that can renew us in spirit, soul and body, recreating us to be the people that God intended.

God has a triune nature, manifested as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus, the Son, is fully God but emptied Himself of certain divine attributes to be incarnated as a man, fully experiencing human pain and even death on the cross. Yet, Jesus never lost His equality with the Godhead.

The Holy Spirit has been given to us to reveal the nature of Jesus and minister His love for us. Holy Spirit changes us for the better, empowers us, teaches us, guides us, and comforts us. Holy Spirit is continuing the mission of Christ in the world through the active ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers (Ephesians 4:11,12).

The Bible is our source for understanding God and His plan for mankind. God is infallible and not hampered by fallible men who recorded and translated the Scriptures. God reveals His word understandable in our hearts and minds.

We look forward for the promised return of Jesus Christ, when He will bring reward and judgment to the world. Hence, we joyfully share the good news of His Kingdom here on earth.

Our Vision

Three Parts

1.  Knowing Jesus.  Knowing and experiencing Jesus individually.
●  Knowing Jesus intimately causes one to reveal Him fully, to love and worship Him extravagantly, and obey Him precisely.
●  This is a pursuit one enters with the help Holy Spirit. As the Holy Spirit is sent to reveal Christ, He will nurture our spirits so Christ becomes our life.
●  This will be accomplished by teaching, first by the word and then by life experiences of every imaginable type.  These are designed by God so Christ may appear in us and through us.

2.  Building the Body.  Expressing Him to one another as we build the Body of Christ.
●  Every believer is a member of the Body of Christ and thus all are called to build up the Body of Christ. Reaching the full measure of the stature of Christ is the goal and requires the ministry of every member. Ultimately we become prepared as His bride and thus will reign with Him throughout eternity.
●  Every son of God is special. Each one is endowed with spiritual manifestations and supernatural powers. All of us will come to know these expressions of His life and thus serve the Body in love while simultaneously discovering ones own purpose and destiny.

●  This will further enhance the knowledge of the Son of God as we see ourselves in Him, we His Body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all.

3.  Expanding the Kingdom of God.

●  All the kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever. He is King. The King of Glory. His Kingdom (of God and of heaven) has come, is coming and will continue to come.
●  The Kingdom of God was the gospel preached by Jesus and His disciples. It is still the gospel message. Jesus taught us to pray asking the Father for its continuing expansion. Its supernatural realm is brought to us by the Holy Spirit in Christ’s character and power.

●  The church on earth is the initial place where the Kingdom is established as each individual believer yields to the inward reach of God’s rule. The church is then the launching pad for the Kingdom into the world as the church follows the Holy Spirit who moves through His people, advancing the Kingdom into personal lives, circumstances and situations in every area of human existence.