Vision

Who We Desire To Become

We are not a building or an institution. We desire to be a Jesus community. We desire to be a movement of authentic followers of Jesus taking him at his word, believing that he has called us to be representatives and ambassadors in our world. We desire to be united in the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus who came to bring about the Kingdom of God and a movement of love.

We desire to be a multi-generational, authentic, participatory faith community made up of singles and families. While we are multi-generational in our approach, we are committed to being intentional about engaging with younger generations.

We seek to know our place in God’s agenda and are called to participate in it. God’s agenda is to bless, renew and reconcile the messy and broken world we live in. Therefore we sense our call to be servants sent out to be missionaries and change agents in our spheres of influence in the name of Jesus.

We attempt to be Jesus-ish. As followers of Jesus we are called to be holistic servants, ambassadors and representatives of his life in all that we do.

We desire to connect with people who are intrigued by Jesus, but tired of religion. We, too, are tired of religion. We desire to place relationship over rule-keeping. We want to engage with people who think the church is useless, irrelevant and even offensive. Our goal isn’t to be religious or to get others to come to our church so we can tell people how to live their life while expecting them to give us 10% of their money. We desire to care more about who each individual is than what each person can do for the church.

We seek to be humble students who want to study the Scriptures given to us, study the culture we live in and help to see these two areas come together.

We want to value risk and change, which means, at times, we will expect to experience failure. We do not value risk and change in order to keep up with the times in order to be relevant, hip or cool, but to be effective in connecting with those who are skeptical of Jesus and His Church.

We are here for people who are not here. G.K. Chesterton wrote, “The church is the only institution that exists solely for the benefit of non-members.” Jesus connected with those on the margins. We seek to follow him in that way.

We swim in a deep stream of tradition. The roots of historic Christian belief run deep. However, we are not here to be preservers of the past. Instead, we strive to understand the rich history of our past and be students of our present culture in order to be pioneers of the future in the name of Jesus.

We are called to be both a sending church and a church that is being sent. Both are essential to the mission of God. Therefore, we approach missions as holistic – both on a local and global level – involving body, heart, mind and soul. We see our mission as being half way across the world as well as down the block. We are much more interested in the question, “How are we serving our neighborhood this week?” than “How many people were at the service on Sunday?”

We desire to be known more for our sending capacity than our seating capacity. We desire for people to be sent officially and unofficially in order to live on mission in the ways of Jesus. This is why we are so passionate about house churches. We also desire to be a church planting church plant, believing that we will send a new church out within the next five years.