Denomination: Christian Church
Visions and Values
Come, Thrive, Go: Helping seekers become committed Christ followers through loving community.
We value people
We are a community that seeks to love all people as Christ loved us while we were and are completely undeserving. As a result we highly value both "churched" and "unchurched" people; Christian and non-Christian. We are driven by the Good News of Jesus Christ and by God's love for every human being.
We are a grace-filled community
Thanks to Jesus' perfect life, His crucifixion and resurrection, we celebrate and live the Christian life not as performance for God, but as the enjoyment of God. This enables us to live as honest and authentic human beings who are simultaneously "sinful before God" and "justified by God." We welcome all people to join us in the liberated life, that "in ourselves we are more sinful that we ever dared to believe, but in Christ we are more loved than we ever dared to hope."
We are a Biblically-functioning community
We accept the Bible as the Word of God and the foundation for the way we live and minister. We will communicate the Scriptures with intelligence, Christ-centredness and contemporary application. We will provide preaching and Christian education that reflects personal relevance, Biblical integrity and creativity.
We are a contemporary, New Testament community
As a church connected to the historic faith, we submit to Christ's mandate that the church be faithful to His timeless and unchanging truths. As a church connected to our modern world, we guarantee every attender relevance over tradition, effectiveness over party or denominational allegiance and pastoral care over inflexible programming.
We are an unchurched-culture community
We view our city and our world as our mission field and ourselves as a mission outpost. Our love for God and people motivates us to interact with our culture. We invite skeptics, seekers and people of all religions to participate with us in meaningful and creative worship and to freely explore the claims of Christ. To this end, we will provide an environment that will promote sensitive and unintimidating discovery.
We are community-focused
We are committed to doing good in our community. We want our city to be enriched by our presence and to rejoice that we are here. Through our verbal witness we will carry God's message of hope to our neighbourhoods. Through acts of mercy we will bring hope to the hopeless, be a family to those who are alone, pray for healing over the sick, meet the needs of the hurting and offer help for the oppressed. Created in the image of God, everyone will be received with acceptance and dignity.
Come, Thrive, Go: Helping seekers become committed Christ followers through loving community.
We value people
We are a community that seeks to love all people as Christ loved us while we were and are completely undeserving. As a result we highly value both "churched" and "unchurched" people; Christian and non-Christian. We are driven by the Good News of Jesus Christ and by God's love for every human being.
We are a grace-filled community
Thanks to Jesus' perfect life, His crucifixion and resurrection, we celebrate and live the Christian life not as performance for God, but as the enjoyment of God. This enables us to live as honest and authentic human beings who are simultaneously "sinful before God" and "justified by God." We welcome all people to join us in the liberated life, that "in ourselves we are more sinful that we ever dared to believe, but in Christ we are more loved than we ever dared to hope."
We are a Biblically-functioning community
We accept the Bible as the Word of God and the foundation for the way we live and minister. We will communicate the Scriptures with intelligence, Christ-centredness and contemporary application. We will provide preaching and Christian education that reflects personal relevance, Biblical integrity and creativity.
We are a contemporary, New Testament community
As a church connected to the historic faith, we submit to Christ's mandate that the church be faithful to His timeless and unchanging truths. As a church connected to our modern world, we guarantee every attender relevance over tradition, effectiveness over party or denominational allegiance and pastoral care over inflexible programming.
We are an unchurched-culture community
We view our city and our world as our mission field and ourselves as a mission outpost. Our love for God and people motivates us to interact with our culture. We invite skeptics, seekers and people of all religions to participate with us in meaningful and creative worship and to freely explore the claims of Christ. To this end, we will provide an environment that will promote sensitive and unintimidating discovery.
We are community-focused
We are committed to doing good in our community. We want our city to be enriched by our presence and to rejoice that we are here. Through our verbal witness we will carry God's message of hope to our neighbourhoods. Through acts of mercy we will bring hope to the hopeless, be a family to those who are alone, pray for healing over the sick, meet the needs of the hurting and offer help for the oppressed. Created in the image of God, everyone will be received with acceptance and dignity.
