Thursday, February 23, 2012

Values, Mission, & Vision

 

 

 

 

 

Core Values:

  1. God-first & Bible-centered IdentitySpiritual growth with honest accountability (through Home Groups [Lighthouses])
  2. Commitment & follow-through (Spirit of excellence in everything we do)
  3. Doing church as a team (Every member is a minister)
  4. Passionate evangelism (Caring relationships w/ the lost & disenfranchised)

 

Mission:

Engaging, Developing, & Sending disciples to glorify God’s name.

 

Vision:

To grow a multi-cultural ministry that expands God’s kingdom & plants a new church every 7 years.

We expect to accomplish this by . . .

  1. Increasingly touch the lives of children & families from our Joyful Noise learning center, Joy Club, Kindergarten, Infant care, Celebrate Recovery, & Internet Ministry (e.g., volunteers & ministry events).  [This is the previous vision path foundation that we are building upon.]
  2. Fine-tune our Discipleship process (by the end of 2011).  [See funnel illustration!  When we don’t understand this process we get stuck, regress, and miss God’s purpose for our life.]
  3. Become a church of Home Groups & not just with Home Groups as part of membership (by end of 2011).  [This is where discipleship training happens.]
  4. Revamp our Men, Women, Youth, Young Adult, Marriage/Couples, Celebrate Recovery, & Lighthouse Groups to reflect our Home Group discipleship process (by the end of 2013).
  5. Establish an ESL (English as a Second Language) program (by end of 2012)
  6. Establish a significant video ministry (by the end of 2012).
  7. Eventually, we are preparing to expand God’s kingdom by reproducing ourselves through planting another church that remains in touch with the people & needs of their own community [like any healthy church should] (second plant by the end of 2017).