About Us
Values and Priorities
The pursuit of God
Our highest value is the pursuit of God. We are hungry to know and experience God’s presence, hear His voice and follow hard after Him. Our desire is to see Jesus’ love and mercy shine through all we do.
Kingdom of God
We aim to move in all the signs of the present fulfillment of God’s Kingdom, invoking the Spirit’s powerful presence, ministering healing through the Spirit’s gifts and seeing God work wonders through His people.
Discipleship
We aim first to grow personally in the disciplines of Christ and secondly to make disciples: calling others into those same practices.
Value of the individual
We desire to work together to build the church through maintaining mutual respect, open communication, determined cooperation and believing and speaking the best about each other.
Relationships
Relationships take root in the soil of intimacy, accountability and commitment. Relationships are not an end in themselves and are not to be used, exploited or manipulated.
Simplicity
We will not use manipulation, deception, or coercion to motivate people to function and participate in church life.
Servant leadership
We aim to exercise authority with humility, selflessness, grace, care for the sheep and a sincere desire to build up the Body of Christ.
Children
We believe children are a gift from God. They are our present blessing and future hope. As such, they deserve the same quality of nurturing and care that we give adults.
Marriage and family
We desire to help families grow strong and healthy, enabling them to be nurturing , spiritual family units that are able to love and serve each other.
Being culture-current
We attempt to develop an atmosphere in which churched and unchurched people who experience our ministry will feel at home. To this end we use music, language, artistic style, media, and technology that is contemporary to the cultures in which we minister.
Unity
We aim to maintain unity by honoring all who call on Jesus’ Name and by seeking reconciliation with all parts of the Body and blessing the whole Body of Christ.
Worship
Our highest priority is giving God’s love back to Him in worship. Through worship we experience vital nurture and life from our heavenly Father. We also express worship by our lifestyle before a watching world. We desire Spirit led worship in a style that is intimate, dynamic, culture-current and, most of all, life changing. (Matt. 22:37, John 4:23-24)
The Word of God
Another priority is conforming our lives to the Holy Scriptures, the Bible. We believe in teaching and responding to the Word of God. It is through the application of God’s Word to our lives and the submission to God’s Word as our absolute authority, that we can become what God desires. (2 Timothy 3:16-17, Jeremiah 15:16, 1 Peter 2:2)
Fellowship
Our next priority flows out of worship: giving God’s love to each other. As we find acceptance, affirmation and healing with God, we have a basis to relate honestly to each other. To aid these relationships, we place a very high emphasis on small group experiences. These experiences in small groups give every individual an opportunity to express who they are, what they need and give themselves to one another in love. (Matthew 22:39, Acts 2:44-47, John 13:34)
Ministry
We believe that all Christians are called to minister in some manner under the anointing of the Spirit. Furthermore, our premise is that every believer has the same capacity to exercise any spiritual gift at any time according to the will of the Father. Specifically, we are called to preach the Gospel, bring healing to the whole person (spiritually, physically, emotionally and socially), care for the poor through the giving of our time, energy and resources, set free those taken captive by Satan, counsel those in need of God’s wisdom and direction, nurture believers through teaching and exhortation to pursue discipleship in Christ, and train and release others in the ministry of salvation, healing deliverance and other areas of Kingdom ministry. (1 Peter 2:9, Isaiah 61:1-6)
Training and equipping
We believe all Christians should be trained to do the works of Christ. Because we want to be an army and not an audience, we pursue the pattern Paul gave to Timothy: “ What you have learned, pass on to interns, who will in turn equip others.” (2 Timothy 2:2, Ephesians 4:11-13)
Renewing the larger body of Christ
Our premise is that God loves the whole church, even those with differing views, theologies and practices. We want to be a part of God’s ministry to the whole church. In so doing, as a by-product, we are also renewed.
Church planting
We see church planting as a primary evangelistic tool. Our desire is to find people like ourselves and provide for them a church life that reflects our values. To be effective church planters and Kingdom builders, we must train and release our most capable people. We plan to help plant churches in our region and around the world in our generation. (Acts 1:8, I John 1:1-3, John 20:21)
Missions
In Genesis 12, a covenant was made with Abraham. This covenant was simple, “I will bless you and you will be a blessing and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” We are committed to this covenant and recognize our responsibility to give away that which God has given us. This translates into a commitment to mobilize many from our fellowship in short-term missions (i.e. ministry trips) as well as sending individuals and small teams full-time to minister to the nations.
