Mission: What are we doing?

Embracing strangers to become friends,
    Friends to become family, and
        Family to become God’s heart, hands, and feet.

Values: Why are we doing it?

We are Passionate About:

• Growing closer
  Committed to be a source of comfort, support, compassion, prayer, and healing for people in need of care.
• Growing deeper
  Hungry to discover the richness of Scripture and to practice patterns of discipleship.
• Growing stronger
  Praying wholeness into one another, giving and receiving Christ’s acceptance, encouraging and building up others as those made in God’s image.
• Growing further
  Extending gracious care and tender justice to our community and the world through ministries of healing, teaching, prayer, and service.

Strategy: How are we doing it?

We Accomplish Our Mission By:

• Living the God Life Together: Supportive fellowship
  Devoting time and space to work together, eat together, weep together, heal together, learn together, pray together, and laugh together.
  
• Cultivating Corporate Worship: Heart-felt, meaningful worship
  Enabling each person to come to the Living God just as they are and be transformed into the Likeness of Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.
  
• Creating Mission Makers and Mission Takers: Mission and service
  Providing hands-on, life-changing opportunities to work for healing, restoration, justice, and reconciliation wherever God takes us.
  
• Developing Youth of Good Character: Deep investment in youth
  Modeling intellectual growth, healthy habits, and spiritual depth for community youth and their families as mentors and friends.
  

Measures: When are we successful?

As we grow in Christ, we will be increasingly:

• Whole-hearted in Worship
  Whole-hearted worship is whole-life worship, unrestricted to weekly time and location, and participating individually and as the gathered People of God.
  
• Skilled in Scripture
  Familiar with the books, genres and structure of the Biblical texts; able to read and hear scripture personally and in shared learning; able to refer to and recall Scripture that guides our lives.
  
• Practiced in Prayer
  Able to practice private devotional prayer, contemplative prayer, and able to pray with and for others, especially for healing.
  
• Steeped in Story
  Able to share our own story and God’s story as testimony and in the work of the gospel proclamation and disciple-making. Invested in a shared story with others as part of the church and as part of a smaller circle of Jesus followers.
  
• Working in the World
  Able to participate in serving work that makes our local community more and more like the Kingdom of God—marked by love, justice, inclusion of the marginalized, compassionate care of hurting people.