| PRAYER |
Prayer will undergird and guide all that
we do, as we provide a variety of opportunities for prayer
emphasizing not the form of prayer but a people responding
to God. |
| MATURITY |
All will know God's truths and move toward
Christian maturity through quality education and preaching
firmly grounded in the Holy Bible as reflected in the
Lutheran Confessions. |
| FAMILY |
Families will be supported and strengthened
through modeling of and training in Scriptural values
and roles, enabling parents to raise up their children
in the Lord. |
| YOUTH |
We will be a center for vibrant and wholesome
youth activity, attracting, supporting and encouraging
young people through the building of nurturing, loving
relationships while challenging them to accept Christ's
call to discipleship. |
| COMMUNITY |
Ours will be a Christian community in which
all will experience a genuine sense of belonging as they
are welcomed and accepted in Christian love by individuals,
through small groups, and within the fellowship as a whole. |
| CHRIST'S LOVE AND HEALING |
Those who are hurting will experience Christ's
healing through our acceptance, compassion and support,
empowering them in turn to become instruments of Christ's
healing love for others. |
| WORSHIP |
Our worship will be a means of encountering
the living Christ, as it maintains a balance of holy reverence
and joyful exuberance while including contemporary styles
and traditional Lutheran forms. |
| DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING |
Our members will be invited and enabled
to support our mission and fulfill their personal ministries
through provision of a wide variety of training and service
opportunities. |
| EVANGELISM |
We will share the Gospel through personal
relationships with sincere concern for people and their
individual needs, beginning in our community and extending
into the world beyond. |
