Vision and Values

THE VISION

This new church will ...

Reclaim the Mandate by being a Witness to the
Radical Inclusivity of God’s Love.

“You will be my witnesses … to the ends of the earth”
Acts 1:8

Renew the People by being a Center of
Dynamic Sacramental Worship

“I am the bread of life: whoever comes to me will never be hunger, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.”
John 6:35

Release the Spirit by being a Catalyst for Personal and
Social Transformation Through Christ-like Service

“Old things are passed away;
behold, all things are become new”
2 Corinthians 5:17

CORE VALUES

All people are created in the image of God
and cherished as God’s children

“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image,
according to our likeness”
Genesis 1:26

Every life is precious to God. Therefore God is present in
every life bringing wholeness out of brokenness, peace
out of conflict, and resurrection out of death.

“Jesus said to them…'I came
that they may have life,’”
John 10:10

It is in community with those most different from us that we discover the fullness of our own humanity and the depths of God’s love, the breadth of God’s mercy
and the heights of God’s grace.

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all
the members of the body … are one body, so it is in Christ.”
I Corinthians 12:12

People matter more than structure.
Lives matter more than rules.

“The sabbath was made for humankind,
and not humankind for the sabbath. ”
Mark 2:27

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