What We Believe
Mission Statement
Our mission is to manifest the kingdom now, as we call out disciples and renew our neighborhoods.
Core Practices
1. The Practice of Diversity
We celebrate and seek relationships that cross ethnic and socioeconomic boundaries in our church, recognizing that this mixture reflects the Kingdom of God.
2. The Practice of Equitable Relationships
We celebrate and seek God's design for relationships, displaying justice in the following areas: a. care b. distribution of resources c. opportunity d. leadership.
3. The Practice of Sacrifice
We celebrate Christ's sacrifice for us and therefore sacrifice our time, energy, resources, and effort for the sake of Christ's kingdom.
4. The Practice of Team-based Ministry
We celebrate and seek the interdependence of the church, recognizing that we can do more together than we can individually, and recognizing that we need one another to sharpen us.
5. The Practice of Life Change
We celebrate the metamorphosis of ungodly people into the people of God, challenging one another toward baptism and disciple-making, and leading one another on a trajectory toward holiness.
We celebrate and seek relationships that cross ethnic and socioeconomic boundaries in our church, recognizing that this mixture reflects the Kingdom of God.
2. The Practice of Equitable Relationships
We celebrate and seek God's design for relationships, displaying justice in the following areas: a. care b. distribution of resources c. opportunity d. leadership.
3. The Practice of Sacrifice
We celebrate Christ's sacrifice for us and therefore sacrifice our time, energy, resources, and effort for the sake of Christ's kingdom.
4. The Practice of Team-based Ministry
We celebrate and seek the interdependence of the church, recognizing that we can do more together than we can individually, and recognizing that we need one another to sharpen us.
5. The Practice of Life Change
We celebrate the metamorphosis of ungodly people into the people of God, challenging one another toward baptism and disciple-making, and leading one another on a trajectory toward holiness.
Dream Statements
- We dream of a church of many ethnicities where people worship together, pray together, work together, dream together, and eat together.
- We dream that the community surrounding our church feels, smells, and begins to taste life in the Kingdom of God.
- We dream of a church leadership team consisting of men and women with diverse ethnic and racial identities.
- We dream of a church where we disciple the poor to share with those who have even less.
- We dream of a church where we disciple the middle class to curb consumption and thoughtfully help those in need.
- We dream of a church that expresses itself creatively in problem-solving, worship, and community impact.
- We dream of a church where the mentally ill find wholeness in community, and where others find community with the mentally ill.
- We dream of a church that offers hospitality to strangers, immigrants, refugees, and newcomers.
- We dream of a church that finds its purpose in the Father, follows the path of the Son, and receives its power from the Holy Spirit.
- We dream of a church that values and depends upon community; it is a place where no one stands alone, no one rises to the top alone, and no one falls down alone.
- We dream of a church that wrestles with the tension of caring for those both within and outside of the church.
- We dream of a church where addicts are set free.
- We dream of a church where grief and sadness are absorbed by the care of the community.
- We dream of a church where people go to great lengths to find lost people -- learning a new language, going to a foreign neighborhood, and stepping out of comfort zones.
- We dream of a church that binds up the brokenhearted, proclaims freedom for captives, releases the prisoners from darkness, comforts the mourning, and bestows on the poor crowns of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and garments of praise instead of spirits of despair (Isaiah 61:1-3).