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Mission Statement

This statement was adopted at the September 30, 2001 congregational meeting.

In our worship and prayer:

  • We will follow the way of Jesus Christ by praying, reading the Bible and listening to each other and to God.

  • We will worship God with both our hearts and our heads, using the arts to express the inexpressible.

  • We will ask the Holy Spirit to empower us to discern God's call and carry it out.

  • We will invoke the God of reconciliation in our prayers, songs and meditations.

  • We will confess our sins before God in submission, rejoicing in God's forgiveness and acceptance.

  • We pray for the courage to live as God would have us live, even when this puts us in conflict with our society.

As stewards of God's resources:

  • We will offer our time, talents and money to God's discretion.

  • We will live simply, believing in God’s abundance when others see only scarcity and the need to hoard.

  • We will give as God has given to us.

  • We will learn how to manage our planet’s resources wisely in order to care for them in a way pleasing to God.

  • We will joyfully rearrange our time and finances to bring about justice in the world.

As a community growing toward grace, joy and peace:

  • We will be honest with each other about our possessions, our time and our relationships.

  • We will seek and give discipline regularly, confronting each other in love.

  • We will overcome the temptation to seek revenge, offering forgiveness and grace just as we have received them from God through Jesus Christ.

  • We will welcome strangers and outcasts into our community, giving aid and comfort.

  • We will respect every voice in our community, even the unpopular and dissenting ones.

As a people empowered to call leaders:

  • We will call those who lead by serving, as Christ did.

  • We will encourage people to be a priesthood of believers, as our Anabaptist ancestors taught.

  • We will train women and men for leadership roles.

  • We will give our leaders time to nurture their spiritual lives.

As channels of God's healing and hope to those outside our community:

  • We will tell the Gospel message wherever we go, relating our own experiences of Christ as well as the biblical stories.

  • We will walk with people in need, not just provide ministry to them.

  • We will stand for peace and reconciliation, justice and right practices wherever we see wrong.

  • We will stand with the oppressed and the outcast.

  • We will stand against the principalities and powers of the world.

  • We will follow Jesus' example of nonviolent resistance in confronting evil.