Welcome to Passion Church!

We are a community of people pursuing a passionate relationship with God and others. We are committed to anointed Bible teaching, Spirit-filled worship, passionate prayer, and compassionate service to those in need. “Celebrating life together” is our core message. We believe relationships are the essence of life, and that life is best enjoyed in authentic community.

It is our desire to help you discover and develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, build a strong family life, grow in your gifts, excel in the workplace, and enjoy financial and spiritual freedom.

Come join us as we celebrate life together!

Brian and Mercy Alarid
Lead Pastors

Vision

Our vision is to be an authentic biblical community that celebrates life together.

Mission

Our mission is to make fully devoted disciples of Christ. 

Dream

1.   Biblical community: It is the dream of an authentic Biblical community where thousands of people in the Albuquerque community celebrate life together and grow into full maturity in Christ.

2.   Love: It is the dream of providing love, joy, comfort, hope, acceptance, forgiveness, and healing to those who are hurting, sick, broken-hearted, depressed, bankrupt, suicidal, and in need of spiritual guidance.

3.   Good News: It is the dream of sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with the hundreds of thousands of people in the Albuquerque community and helping them discover a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

4.  Freedom: It is the dream of a place where people can receive spiritual, financial, physical, emotional, mental, and relational freedom and wholeness. The dream includes the Freedom Center, which will serve as a hub for helping people discover freedom.

5.   Families: It is the dream of helping families experience the kind of life Jesus secured for them on the Cross. It is the dream of helping restore marriages and heal families. It is the dream of world-class ministries for children, youth, men, women, and couples.

6.   Leadership Development: It is the dream of developing servant-leaders from around the world. The dream includes the Passion Leadership College, which will serve as a hub for leadership development.

7.   New Churches: It is the dream of building an international network of passionate churches and helping birth new churches in New Mexico, America, and the nations of the world.

8.   Education: It is the dream of making a lasting impact on education in our state. The dream includes a Christian day care, pre-school, K-12 academy, and home school network.

9.   Business: It is the dream of an entrepreneurial church that owns and operates several businesses that finance the expansion of God’s kingdom—a church where business men and women are valued and given freedom to use their gifts and contribute their wealth of knowledge.

10.  Spanish outreach: It is the dream of ministering to the thousands of people in our community whose native language is Spanish.

11.  Community outreach: It is the dream of transforming the Albuquerque community through love and compassionate service. We want to love our city like it has never been loved before.

12.  Multi-Site: It is the dream of a main campus in Albuquerque and multiple satellite campuses throughout New Mexico.

Beliefs

BIBLE | We believe the Bible is the infallible and inspired Word of God, and the only foundation for life.

GOD | We believe in one God who exists in three distinct, equal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

JESUS | We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the only way to heaven.

HOLY SPIRIT | We believe the Holy Spirit resides in the heart of all who put their faith in Christ. We believe that all believers should be filled with the Holy Spirit and utilize the spiritual gifts He has given them.

CREATION | We believe in the Biblical account of creation. God is the Creator of the universe and everything in it, including mankind.

SALVATION | We believe that we are saved by grace (God’s unmerited favor). Salvation cannot be earned through good works. It is God’s free gift to those who repent of their sins and put their faith in Jesus Christ.

WATER BAPTISM | We believe that all believers should be water baptized as a public confession of their faith in Jesus Christ.

ETERNAL LIFE | We believe that Jesus came to earth and died so that we can live an “abundant life” here on earth and enjoy eternal life in heaven after we die. God wants you to experience “heaven on earth.” He wants to give you the kind of life you’ve always dreamed about.

SECOND COMING | We believe that Jesus Christ will return to the earth to judge the wicked, and to gather and reward His followers.

About Brian Alarid

Brian was born in southern California and spent much of his childhood in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, where his parents served as missionaries. While on the mission field, he became fluent in Spanish and developed a passion for missions.

Brian gave his life to Christ at the age of four while in Guatemala. He was water baptized and received his call to ministry at the age of twelve while in Costa Rica, went to Bible school at the age of seventeen, and has been in full-time pastoral ministry since 1993. Brian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Theology and a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Regent University.

In addition to serving in pastoral ministry for the past fifteen years, Brian has served in many ministry and executive positions, including Director of Publications, Youth Pastor, Assistant Pastor, Dean, and Executive Secretary. Brian is the Founder, President, and Lead Pastor of Passion Church. Brian is also a part-time instructor at the University of New Mexico.

Brian’s first love is leadership development, but his other passions include preaching God’s Word, helping unbelievers connect with God, discipleship, missions, and networking. Brian has preached to thousands of people and trained thousands of leaders in many nations, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Honduras, India, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, and Switzerland.

Brian has been married to Mercy for twelve years and together they have three beautiful children: Chloe, Colin, and Lauren Nicole. Brian’s interests include reading, drinking coffee at Starbucks, writing, traveling, playing basketball, and spending time with his family and friends.

• Favorite book: Rediscovering Church by Bill Hybels
• Favorite movie: Gladiator 
• Favorite music: Jesus Culture, Hillsong United and U2
• Favorite place to visit: Italy
• Favorite Starbucks drink: White Chocolate Mocha
• Personal motto: “Celebrating life”
• Personal heroes: Jesus Christ, my wife, Bill Hybels, TD Jakes, Brian Houston

Staff

Brian Alarid, Lead Pastor

Mercy Alarid, Creative Arts Pastor

Matthew Gutierrez, Men's Ministry & Care Pastor

Edna Gutierrez, Care Pastor and Hospitality

Tammy Garcia, Worship Leader

Carla Heinecke, Children's Ministry

Jason Derrick, Youth Ministry

Eric Cadena, Youth Ministry

History

With a church plant team consisting of seven adults and three children, Passion launched its first service on Sunday, April 2, 2006 at Kyle and Lisa Kimbrell’s home in the northeast heights. Amazingly, sixty-eight people attended the first service and ten people made decisions for Christ.

Later that evening, Pastors Brian and Mercy went to Presbyterian Hospital where Mercy gave birth to their second child, Colin. Their son was born deaf in one ear, but God miraculously healed him five weeks later—a sign to the Alarid’s that Passion would be a supernatural church.

So much has transpired since then—people have committed their lives to Christ, marriages have been healed, families have been restored, new believers have been discipled, people have grown in their spiritual gifts, and leaders have been developed and released into ministry.

Passion Church moved from the Kimbrell residence to Cottonwood Mall Theater in August 2006. In our two years at the theater, over 800 people made decisions for Christ.

Passion moved to its new home - Cibola High School - in December 2008. The main sanctuary is the 600-seat Performing Arts Center. On Sundays, we have classes for Infants and Toddlers (0-2), Preeschool (3-4), and Kindergarten through 5th grade.

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