Our Purpose and Values
Our Purpose
To love people into a responsive and maturing relationship with Jesus Christ.
Connect them into authentic, redemptive communities.
Launch them into God's kingdom revolution.
Our Values
G – God-Centered
Following the Heart and Purposes of God
God lives among us and is working out His desires for His creation. He longs for deeper relationship with each of us and invites us to join Him in His Kingdom’s purposes in the world around us. We enter into a relationship with God by responding to His love when we choose to place our trust in Jesus Christ and follow Him. As we mature and grow more responsive to Jesus, He works through us to reveal the life -giving truth of His Kingdom to a world that desperately needs to know Him. It’s a revolutionary way to live – listening, observing and responding to God and His reign in the world.
R – Reaching Others
Opening Our Lives to Other Lost and Broken People
God calls us to shine as His light in the darkness. To live a life that radiates His love and reveals His message of hope to the lost and broken people of the world. People just like us who need to know Him and experience justice, peace and hope. As His people, God calls us to look outside our immediate surroundings to the world around us and see beyond the crowd to the individual faces and hearts He wants us to reach out to with His love. As we seek God’s heart and grow closer to Him, we are compelled to enter into relationships with lost and broken people. As we do, we will experience His presence and reveal His Kingdom more fully to our world, bringing restoration and transformation to His creation.
A – Authentic Relationships
Bringing Authentic, Biblical Community to Life
God desires for us to experience love, grace and truth as we live life together–sharing hurts, celebrating joys, and facing struggles on our lifelong journey with God. This authenticity is born out of honesty, persistence and intentionality. Through these authentic relationships we can grow in our faith, experience hope and be launched together into God’s Kingdom revolution.
C – Changing Lives
Experiencing God’s Transforming Truth and Power
God desires deep, lasting relationship with us, not only during our time on earth but throughout eternity. Our choice to follow Jesus simply marks the beginning. God calls us to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. This deep love creates opportunities for us to surrender and trust Him as we open our life to the Holy Spirit who molds us into the image of Jesus and shapes our character. The Spirit’s ways are beautiful and mysterious, sometimes miraculous but often subtle. He works and guides in the midst of our daily life through our relationships, both with God and with others. Our transformation takes a lifetime, not a few moments or even years. From this growing love for God flows a wholehearted love for others that reveals His Kingdom to a dying world.
E – Empowered to Serve and Give
Releasing Our God-Given Gifts and Resources
God entrusts each follower of Jesus with unique spiritual gifts and material resources. He powers us to be a tangible, enduring expression of His grace and love on this earth. Our whole being, body, mind, and soul, belongs to God. This includes our hopes, dreams, passions, gifts, abilities, possessions, resources and time. He asks us to willingly and joyfully offer it all to Him, not holding back but trusting Him to meet our needs. As we release our gifts and resources, together in community, God strengthens His body and reveals His Kingdom to the world.
