Vision

If you build it, they will come.

Who We Are

“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”

-Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

With our Mission in focus, it is crucial that we are given a vision of how it will be accomplished and what it will look like as we accomplish it.

It is so true what King Solomon wrote in Proverbs nearly 3,000 years ago! Without vision, the people will perish. Other Bible translations say the people ‘will be unrestrained’. We need a vision to aim for, to hope for, and to dream of as we are taking part in the mission. If we don’t have one, we will have nothing to unite us together and nothing to keep us on mission- we will perish.

We choose our Vision Statement to be the ultimate description of ‘who we are’ in Christ and ‘who we desire to be’. This vision is our slogan- our battle cry! It is our intent that it would define us to those who encounter our people or something with our name or logo on it.

So in response to our Mission Statement, our Vision Statement is:

“Our Vision is to be a Community of Grace, Love, and Hope.”

We choose this Vision Statement because:

• We are a community, a people, of Grace. Grace is when you get exactly what you don’t deserve. Grace is what God has given us. When we absolutely did not deserve it God gave us His Son as a living sacrifice to live a life that we could not live, to die a death we deserved to die, and to rise from the grave to conquer sin and death so that we can have an everlasting relationship with Him.

Grace is what we choose to offer those in our community- welcoming them with open arms regardless of who they are or what they have done into the new life that Christ offers them.

• We are a community, a people of Love. Love is what you do to show someone how much they are worth. God is Love. In Love, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. God loved us first and because of that, we choose to Love Him and the community around us.
• We are a community, a people of Hope. Hope is something that we can assuredly look forward to. Our Hope is found in Christ. The Hope we have is that someday Jesus Christ is returning to restore His creation to perfection, to rid the world of sin and death, and to forever have fellowship with and reign over those He has saved. We choose to live out this blessed Hope in our lives so that all those we come into contact with can be impacted by it.