Our Values ...
Core Ministry Values
Spiritual Intimacy
We value a close, intimate fellowship with Christ that results in a lifestyle of prayer, worship, and a deeper understanding of His Word.
People
We believe that all people matter to God and therefore should influence everything that we do.
Missions
We believe everyone needs to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Therefore, we will support and participate in missions’ work locally, nationally, and internationally. We will dedicate our time, finances, knowledge, and abilities to further God’s kingdom around the world.
Relationship
We value a personal relationship with Christ as the foundation to creating a strong community of believers. We desire to build the body of Christ through loving genuinely and caring for people so that they will be drawn to and grow in Christ.
Leadership
We value servant leadership and the ability to influence others in love and trust, nurturing individuals toward personal growth in God.
Family
Since we place a high value upon the family, we will provide ministries that will equip, encourage, and strengthen the family.
Excellence
We value the pursuit of excellence in all we do, enabled and sustained by God’s grace and power.
Core Relational Values
As a team we value unity and oneness…and will endeavor, by the grace of God, to:
1. Communicate in a Christ-like Manner
Having all individual and corporate communication reflect and glorify Christ by:
· Keeping our word
- doing what we said we would do (Matthew 5:37)
· Having soft eyes
- Keeping our tone of voice respectful and self-controlled, and our expression gentle and kind (
· Responding not Reacting
- Choosing to allow our values rather than our emotions and passion to dictate our response (Gal. 5:22-24; James 1:19)
· Boldly speaking the truth in love.
- Presenting undiluted truth without compromising the motive of love (Eph. 4:15, 25,29; 2 Tim. 2: 24,25)
· Speaking to the potential
- Seeing each other as God sees us, without the limitations and fallenness of sin (Eph. 4:29; 1 Thess. 5:11; Heb. 10:24)
· Walking in humility
- Appropriately seeing ourselves as God sees us, neither with pride, nor self-abasement (Romans 12:3; Phil. 2:3; Col. 3:12; James 4:6, 10; 1 Peter 5:5,6
· Seeking Forgiveness
- Instigating reconciliation when we know another has hard feelings towards us, whether or not we intended to offend (Matt. 5:23,24)
· Believing the best
- By not judging motives or intent and looking for the good in other’s words and actions and being gracious with imperfect expression; and if actions are not showing the best we would go to our value of speaking truth in love (1 Cor. 13:6,7)
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Have Integrity
· Being congruent in all we say and do
- Ensuring our words and actions accurately reflect our beliefs and values without contradiction (James 3:9,10)
· Being accountable to one another
- Allowing others to speak into and influence our blind spots and areas of indiscretion or immaturity (James 5:16; Gal. 2:2)
· Keeping short accounts
- Communicating so as not to allow time to inflate a misunderstanding into an offense (Matt. 5:23,24; Eph. 4:26,27)
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Be Vulnerable
· Being open and honest
- Choosing to express our feelings and thoughts with wisdom and love, when it would be easier not to (Prov. 16:13; 2 Cor. 3:17)
· Owning our own stuff
- Taking responsibility for our imperfection without defensiveness or blaming our shortcomings on others (
· Being interdependent and working together as a team
- Understanding each one’s strengths and weaknesses allows us to function alongside each other without competition or comparison
- “I need you, and you need me” (Eph. 4:16; 1 Cor. 12:14-26)
