OUR PRIORITIES

Cultivate intergenerational, inclusive, supportive community

• Build fellowship across generations in small groups, at potluck, Church Retreat, and in our daily lives, spurring one another on toward love and good deeds

• Bless and include children and the elderly

• Welcome and share power across social divides

• Celebrate the LGBTQ members of our community

• Challenge racism in ourselves and in our world

• Practice presence, prayer, and mutual aid across the community

 

Pursue creative participatory worship 

• Invite any and everyone in the community to help lead us in worship

• Create space for many different gifts to be used in worship

• Invite the community to share reflections, joys and burdens in worship

 

Support diverse paths of spiritual development

• Create spaces for people to tell their stories and bear witness to God in their life

• Invite the community to engage in contemplative spiritual practice

• Sing praises together often

• Create space for people to explore scripture and theology, as well as important issues in church and the world together.

• Connect people to the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition and the broader Mennonite Church

 

Build connections for peace and justice between the congregation, the local community, and the world.

• Pursue Justice, Peace, Equity, and Solidarity with those who are struggling in our congregation, community, region, and world

• Connect the congregation to Mennonite institutions, the work they do, and the opportunities they make available for us.