Living Our Purpose
Missional Priorities
Our faith is an active, daily practice that gives us shared direction so we can work together with purpose. These three missional priorities guide how we cultivate radical discipleship, empower grassroots leaders, and innovate together to pursue justice and embody Christ’s peace.
Our mission is shaped by relationships and Christ’s call to bring healing, hope, and wholeness to the world. We care deeply about our community and its members.
Clear missional priorities help us stay focused on what matters most in our unique mission field.
They give us shared direction so we can work together with purpose, use our energy wisely, and respond to where God is leading us. These priorities remind us that we are part of something bigger, and that our impact grows when we move forward together.
- USA Apostles & Presidents of Seventy
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Cultivate Radical Discipleship for Transformative Mission
We center our ministry around encounters with divine love that transform lives and communities. Radical discipleship invites people into a way of being that embodies compassion, justice, and peace as daily practices that change relationships and systems.
Our goal is to cultivate and nurture Spirit-led, inclusive, and tangible mission-driven expressions of the church.
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Empower and Develop Leaders for Grassroots Impact
We commit to equipping and accompanying leaders who can sustain and multiply the mission of Christ in their local contexts. Empowering leaders means creating accessible pathways for formation, mentorship, and ongoing skill development—especially at the grassroots level.
Leaders will be developed to initiate and sustain Spirit-led communities of justice and peace, not just to maintain programs.
Through relationships and practical training, we will identify and build sustainable leadership pathways rooted in formation, encounter, and missional action.
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Lead Communities Beyond The Horizon
We journey with the Spirit into new horizons of community, open to God’s unfolding future. This strategy calls us to venture into fresh, Spirit-led expressions of faith that are flexible, responsive, and grounded in justice and peace. We recognize that the church of the future may take forms we cannot yet imagine, and we commit to exploring those possibilities with courage, creativity, and trust in God’s vision.
We will risk new patterns of gathering, new languages of belonging, and new pathways of mission, trusting that each faithful experiment brings us closer to the heart of Christ-like community.
God is doing something here, and we are willing to discern together to see where the journey will take us. Come along and we will learn how being in sacred community will transform the world.
When asked why he was excited to become a member, he said: “So I get to be with others… hope… peace… more of a community, more of something.” “More of something” may help us understand something important about this new community that God is shaping and forming in and around us: it grows every time we make room for one another.
We can’t see the whole road. We don’t know what lies ahead. We’re not sure how things will unfold. And yet—we are invited to move forward and experiment with what it means to follow Jesus.
In that moment, it became clear: even if buildings fade, the spirit of mission is alive—in a newly baptized member, a curious seeker, and a devoted Buddhist open to prayer. Even now, that spirit moves forward with hope.
There is a shared commitment to nurturing emerging leaders—recognizing that we are not only forming them but also being formed by their insights and vision.
God’s new Community is being born, with the young people as the midwives.
In that moment I sensed God giving us a glimpse of Community of Christ’s peaceable kin-dom: a community not confined to human belonging alone, but one expansive enough to include the sacred more-than-human world.
What captured our attention was the commitment they had towards each other, and the way they practiced hospitality and inclusion. Three things: First, they were intentionally present. Second, they were intensely involved in each other’s lives. Third, they offered an abundance of hospitality
The Spirit moved powerfully among us as we shared, refined, and built on ideas—some newly conceived and others already well on their way to being birthed.
