Our Vision.
To partner with God as He builds a network of praying believers across Lane County linking arms in belief for revival, formation, and renewal.
Our Values.
Our values are similar to an ‘order of operations’. We believe the order in which these are displayed in scripture gives us a picture of what our priority order, emphasis, and process should be like.
Presence.
We acknowledge that God’s presence is eternal and pre-exists humans, the earth, and all of creation. We see that God’s good design was for his presence to be with us in the garden and that after the fall we were separated from his presence. All through scripture you see the primary mark of God’s people being that His presence went with them. Seeking the presence of God isn’t just the starting point and foundation, but needs to be a daily central focus of the body of Christ. If we pursue work/worship, community, and mission without first pursuing the presence, we are totally missing the point.
Worship.
True acts of worship allow the glory (or the kavod) of God to be fully experienced. This happens through the work of our hands - the original assignment given to Adam before he was given a family - as well as through praise to God, service to God and others, and through blessing. The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
Family.
From the opening scene of the human experience, God says that isolation is “not good” for man. Our first and primary place for community is from within your biological family - if that’s a safe and healthy environment. The second is in your spiritual family, The Church, led by Our Heavenly Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. (Ephesians 3:14,15)
Mission.
Starting in Genesis 1:28 God gives the original family of God, His mission. “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule…”. This is the cultural mandate to bring the glory of God and the order He models for us in the garden, into the chaotic remainder of the world. To bring His ways and principles into every inch of creation. In Matthew 28, we’re given an addendum of sorts to this mission. Go into all the world and disciple them unto obedience to God’s ways.