Mission Statement To help individuals and organizations, seeking clarity of purpose & direction, to identify & live their missions gracefully. Vision Statement We envision… COMMUNITIES where dreams are developed, cultivated & realized. PLACES of exploration, encouragement and growth. PEOPLE enthused, excited and on fire for God! A WORLD experiencing the love of Christ through the focused, faithful and fulfilled lives of our clients. Ultimately, our vision is Matthew 5:16 - seeing our participants living such fulfilled lives that people around them want to know how they can find more peace purpose and meaning in their own lives. Strategies CREATE COMMUNITIES where communities don’t exist. STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES that already exist. MODEL COMMUNITY within our own organization. Values Statement We acknowledge Jesus as our CEO. We ensure everything we do glorifies God & makes Jesus look good! We saturate everything we do in prayer. We define, evaluate, and refine everything we do by our God-given mission. We use God's resources, deployed through God's people, to accomplish God's purpose. We live our lives as faithful, whole-life stewards, taking care of everything He has entrusted to us. We recognize, promote and maximize the use of our God given talents, gifts and abilities. We have fun and joyfully live our individual life missions. We encourage and embrace diversity of opinion, experience, age, ethnicity, and denomination. We eagerly anticipate opportunities to invite individuals to accept the God’s Gift of Grace. Charter Statement “God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.” Ephesians 2:8-10 (NLT) “I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me - the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace." Acts 20:22-24 Beliefs Statement We believe the Bible is the word of God and is to be used for all faith, doctrine and conduct. We acknowledge doctrinal differences, but choose to be united through our intercessor, Jesus Christ. We embrace and support compassionate Christianity, which emphasizes relationship over religion. We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three personalities; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe in the existence and personality of Satan, and his negative influence in our world. We believe in the virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, substitutional death on the cross, the bodily resurrection, and the ascension of Jesus Christ. We believe that if you "know the truth, the truth will set you free." We believe salvation is a gift of Grace -- to be received, not achieved. "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." We live by one principle, "to love God with all our heart and mind and soul and strength, and our neighbors as ourselves." This is possible only through the in-dwelling presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. We believe salvation begins at conversion, which means joyfully living a life of heaven on earth until the fulfillment of the second resurrection!