Our Values are those ideals which we hold dear and seek to incorporate into all we do. The following list of Values reflects our current understanding of the ideals we wish to uphold as a local church. We readily admit that we sometimes fall short of living out these ideals, but we are committed to pursuing them with God's help.

Personal Relationship with God

Believing that the Christian life is founded on a personal love-relationship with God through faith in Jesus Christ, we seek to promote an atmosphere in which people are drawn to Christ and nurtured in their relationship with Him.

Dependence on God

Believing that our efforts and programs are totally ineffective without the presence and power of God, we seek to make prayer a top priority in our program scheduling and to encourage consistent private and family prayer in the lives of our people.

Personal Integrity

Believing that we demonstrate our love for God through the pursuit of personal holiness and integrity of lifestyle, we seek to model and promote the highest ethical and moral standards.

Authority of the Bible

Believing that the Bible is the Word of God and the final authority on all things pertaining to our spiritual lives, we seek to teach, learn, apply, and live Biblical principles consistently to the best of our ability.

Love for People

Believing that God's love and grace are to flow through us to others, we seek to demonstrate grace toward all people by our words, attitudes, and actions.

Spiritual Relationships

Believing that real ministry and spiritual growth take place best within the context of vital relationships, we seek to structure our ministries so as to promote ever-deepening relationships among our people.

Shared Ministry

Believing that every believer is gifted by God for ministry within the Body of Christ and that the vitality of our local church is dependent on a broad level of involvement, we seek to pursue more and better ways of training, enabling, and releasing our people for ministry.

Personal Evangelism

Believing that Christ has called us to "go and make disciples," we seek to develop greater skills and methods of introducing people to Christ and nurturing them in their personal faith.

Anointed Preaching/Teaching

Believing that weekly Spirit-anointed preaching/teaching is central to the spiritual development of our congregation, we seek to structure our ministries so as to allow adequate time for the development and presentation of informative and spiritually-motivating Bible messages.

Joyful Worship

Believing that regularly-scheduled corporate, celebrative worship brings pleasure to God and is an essential element of our spiritual health, we seek to make our weekly worship experience a high priority in our scheduling, planning, and budgeting.

Cultural Relevance

Believing that God has placed us at this point in time in order to minister to our contemporary culture, we seek to develop relevant methods, means, and styles of ministry which best communicate the unchanging gospel to our ever-changing world.

Unity in Diversity

Believing that unity in the Body of Christ is a matter of oneness of heart based on core Biblical principles and does not require uniformity of thought or style, we seek to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation among our people regardless of a wide array of opinions on secondary issues.

Faith-Based Decision Making

Believing that God-honoring churches make leadership decisions based on faith and vision, not on fear, we seek to move forward in pursuing our God-given mission regardless of whatever challenges we may encounter.

Social Concern

Believing that Christ's commands to "love our neighbor as ourselves" and to be "salt" and "light" in the world imply a strong social responsibility, we seek to develop better and more practical means of both helping those in need and resisting those forces which undermine the moral foundations of society.

Global Vision

Believing that Christ died for all people of all nations and ethnic groups and has called us to "go into all the world and preach the gospel," we seek to broaden our awareness of and prayer support for world missions, to challenge our people to personal involvement in world missions, and to monitor prayerfully our level of financial support for world missions.

Denominational Relations

Believing that our relationship to The Wesleyan Church involves certain responsibilities as described in The Discipline, we seek to honor and fulfill those responsibilities to the best of our ability.

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