BOARD VALUES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

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We empower and equip everyone to live fully alive with God through:

• - Our relationship and intimacy with God, Jesus and Holy Spirit
  • Value: God is good
    • Principle: The true nature of God is good, joyful, kind, and loving.
      • Practices:
      • -We live hope-filled lives joyfully anticipating the goodness of God (Jeremiah 29: 11).
      • -We are determined to be carriers of God’s joyful presence in our thoughts, words, prayers and interactions (Galatians 5: 22-26; Exodus 33: 14; Psalm 16: 11).
      • -We believe both the Spirit’s fruit and gifts are essential in our becoming more like Him (Galatians 5:22-23).
  • Value: God is relational
    • Principle: God provides opportunities for a lifestyle of encounter with Him.
      • Practices:
      • -We encourage partnership with Holy Spirit in programs and staff (John 16: 13-15; Hebrews 6: 4-5).
      • -We pair biblical teaching with impactful experiences encouraging consistent and intimate life-shaping encounter with God (John 14: 16-17).
  • Value: God is accessible
    • Principle: God is always with us in our work, recreation and resting.
      • Practices:
      • -We do not differentiate between “ministry” and “daily life” – it is all “life in God” (Ephesians 2: 10; Colossians 3: 23).
      • -We remain in and gather around God’s presence as He produces a fruitfulness far surpassing anything we could ask or imagine (John 15: 1-9).
• - Our relationship with each other
  • Value: Community is relational
    • Principle: Relational interaction and sense of shared journey embraces intimacy, vulnerability, and authenticity.
      • Practices:
      • -We love each other well because we are all beloved of God (1 John 4: 7,11).
      • -We attend to His voice and listen well to each other (Romans 12: 1-21).
      • -We honor and appreciate diversity within unity (Romans 12: 10; Romans 14: 2-6).
  • Value: Community is honoring
    • Principle: The treasure in others is affirmed just as God honors them.
      • Practices:
      • -We encourage and honestly express God’s heart toward each other as we grow (Hebrews 10: 24).
      • -We support different biblical approaches and embrace people as they discover and embrace their identity in Christ (1 Corinthians 9: 19-23).
  • Value: Community is Joyful
    • Principle: Community members reflect joy in becoming more like Him.
      • Practices:
      • -We acknowledge our mistakes and espouse the encouragement of God and one another (Hebrews 10: 23-25).
      • -We demonstrate joyful vulnerability because of the goodness of God in every situation (Philippians 4: 6).
      • -We are postured toward the promises of God in our lives and in the lives of others (2 Peter 1: 4; 2 Corinthians 1: 20).
• - Our lifestyle
  • Value: Worship/prayer as a lifestyle
    • Principle: Worship/prayer create intimacy with God.
      • Practices:
      • -We worship to bless, glorify, lift-up, praise and honor the Lord with joy and thanksgiving – displacing the enemy’s influence (Romans 12: 1-2; Psalms 29; Hebrew 12: 28-29; Psalms 103: 1-6).
      • -We desire to pray in unison with God’s heart as we hear what He’s saying and see what He’s doing (John 10: 27).
      • -We advocate prayer with a posture of being adored and favored of God (1 John 3: 1-2).
  • Value: Lifestyle of adventure and exploration
    • Principle: A lifestyle of adventure and exploration involves self-assessment, setting goals, taking risks and entrusting God with the results.
      • Practices:
      • -We position ourselves to achieve the impossible as we partner with God by saying “yes” to His direction (Job 42: 2; Mark 10: 27; Matthew 19: 26; Romans 8: 31).
      • -We are determined to live in expectation of God’s blessings to us (Luke 12: 32).
      • -We seek to be on adventure with God, trusting Him through every adversity and in every circumstance (Proverbs 3: 5-6).
  • Value: Lifestyle of rest and peace
    • Principle: A lifestyle of rest is the ultimate position of power and peace is the pathway to possibilities.
      • Practices:
      • -We rest with joy – quietly confident and passionately focused on His promises (Matthew 11: 28-30; Galatians 6: 9).
      • -We pray with peace understanding challenges as opportunities (Psalms 116: 7).
      • -We practice our peace daily and embrace times of stillness and meditation with the Lord (Exodus 14:14; Psalms 1: 1-3; 19: 14; 104: 34).
• - Our encountering, empowering and equipping
  • Value: Transformation through encountering
    • Principle: Both information and encounter provide connection with God that result in transformation of how we think, speak, act and see.
      • Practices:
      • -We humbly enter God’s presence believing we become like Jesus by being with Him (1 John 2: 6; 1 John 4:17).
      • -We keep our eyes on Jesus which allows us to pray with authority, speak with power, bless with purpose (Hebrews 12: 2).
  • Value: Transformation through empowering
    • Principle: Healthy people are rooted in love, renewed in mind, and have authority to release what they have received.
      • Practices:
      • -We train in partnership with the ministry modeled by Jesus and embodied by every believer (2 Timothy 2: 21; Luke 2: 29; 1 Peter 2: 21; 1 Corinthians 11: 1).
      • -We cooperate with Holy Spirit to mature our new lifestyle (Galatians 5: 16, 25).
  • Value: Transformation through equipping
    • Principle: The Word provides tools to build the body of Christ, face adversity, stand firm and develop maturity.
      • Practices:
      • -We emphasize development of spiritual fruit and gifts (John 15: 5; 1 Corinthians 12: 7 -11).
      • -We promote unity in the body, relational knowledge of God, fullness in Christ, and life in the Spirit (Colossians 3: 16, Ephesians 1: 22, 23).
  • Value: Transformation through freedom
    • Principle: Freedom is the God-given power to act, speak or think without fear or restraint.
      • Practices:
      • -We create development processes through collaborative multifaceted ideas, honest feedback and impactful implementation consistent with the heart of God (John 8: 32; Proverbs 16: 13).
      • -We celebrate our freedom from the tyranny of having to earn our way to God, freedom from sin, guilt, condemnation and shame, freedom from the penalty and power and eventually freedom from the presence of sin (Galatians 5: 1).
      • -We utilize the liberty of Jesus to love each other and serve one another (Galatians 5: 13-15).

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