Our purpose and values: Ready for your feedback
The St. Christopher’s vision team has been hard at work this fall and winter. They’ve been reading through the work produced at the congregational retreat in October and taking careful time to study, pray, and talk about how to bring together a common statement of purpose and set of core values for the congregation.
At the annual meeting on January 27th, the vision team shared a draft of their work with the congregation. Here it is:
Purpose statement:
St. Christopher’s lives, shares, celebrates, and grows in the transformative and inclusive love of God through Christ.
Core values:
- Jesus is the center of our community and shows us who God is.
- God’s empowering love offers renewal each day.
- Diversity is a gift of God.
- Our faith leads us to see the interconnectedness of all creation.
- Questions are part of a living faith.
- The Spirit moves all to share their gifts.
It’s important to stress that the statement and values above came from the work of the whole congregation. The vision team spent time with all of the comments given at the retreat, looking for common themes and commitments, and I think the end result is both reflective of who St. Christopher’s is and challenging enough to call us into a new future together.
What do you think? Does this sound like St. Christopher’s? Is there something missing? Feel free to comment here or contact a member of the vision team. More opportunities for feedback are on the way–stay tuned!
Peace,
Pastor Andy