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Mission Statement...
Our mission is to lead believers, individually and corporately,
to Glorify God by Touching the World for Christ.
It's not complicated, but it requires commitment...
"whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God"
- 1 Corinthians 10:31
God receives glory (that is, highlighted so that no one can miss Him)
as we help each individual to know and receive His love.
Jesus prayed, "I have given them the glory that you
gave me, that they may be one
as we are one: I in them and you in me. May
they be brought to complete unity to let
the world know that you sent me and
have loved them even as you have loved me."
- John 17:22-23
Vision Statement...
Our vision is that individuals across the street and across
the world, will be able to clearly see and know God because
we got involved creatively, strategically, and compassionately.
Within our vision, you can see the values that guide our
strategies of accomplishing the mission:
to act... "creatively"
Creativity honors the Creator, who Himself is ever creating and
recreating. He has blessed us with skill, gifts, diversity, and
imagination while wonderfully placing us within His family to
reveal Himself to the watching, wonderful world.
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See I am
doing a new thing! Now it springs up;
do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:18-19
to act... "strategically"
Acting with purpose is not random, though it may be spontaneous.
As the Father has passed along to us His purpose and gifted us
for His soul saving mission, we ought to act in step with His
Holy Spirit---obediently in the moment, and strategically for
the long term.
Then the Lord replied: "Write down the revelation and make it plain
on tablets so that a herald may run with it."
- Habakkuk 2:2
to act... "compassionately"
Where would we be if it weren't for the grace and mercy of God?
As He has loved us, we likewise ought to love others---stepping into
their areas of need to bring peace, love, hope, and joy.
We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet
hates his brother, he is a liar.
For anyone who does not love his
brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love
his brother.
- 1 John 4:19-21
Our Strategy...
"He has shown you, O man, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
But to act justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God."
- Micah 6:8
to serve...
To act justly means to step into an area of injustice or need
to bring about justice. Jesus Christ demonstrated this through
his life as a servant leader.
"For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve
and to give his life as a ransom for many."
- Mark 10:45
to love...
Grace begins relationship, mercy keeps us in relationship.
Our love for God should overflow into a loving, supportive
network of relationships with those who also love God---
and lead us to sacrificially love those that have not yet
responded to God's love.
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you must love one another.
By this all men will know that you
are my disciples, if you love one another."
- John 13:34-35
to pray...
If our relationship with God is a walk, then prayer is the road.
We're not only called to pray to God, but with and for one another.
"Pray continually..."
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17
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"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray
for each other so that you may be healed."
- James 5:16
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