Our Core Values
Work with the Hungry
While seeking to love and minister to each person God brings to us, our desire is to pour ourselves into those who are indeed spiritually hungry.
Walk with God – follow the Wild Goose
Early Celtic believers referred to the Holy Spirit as the “Wild Goose”, a name rightly describing the unfettered, free, and wild nature of God [John 3:8]. We submit our decisions to God and listen for His affirmation or counter-intuitive direction.
Irreversible Change
Our ministry decisions have the goal of irreversible change. It’s not education, though that certainly happens, it’s not inspiration though that may be a result; it’s not encouragement though we hope it happens…. It’s irreversible change, transformation of hearts and lives.
Crawl, walk, run
We view our development as ministry like that of the stages of growth in the Christian life: crawl, walk, and run. This assumes a progression over time that requires patience, anticipation, and dreaming/planning/hoping. We are not, now, all that we will be.
We live and work with the deep belief that our new hearts are good
We are a New Covenant ministry that believes God’s promise to “take away our heart of stone” and to “give us a new heart” has been accomplished by the work of Jesus Christ. In Christ, we are new creations (Gal 2:20) and have new hearts. We appeal to the deepest and truest parts of one’s being, believing that as a Christian our deepest and truest desires are for that which is true, honorable, holy, pure, and beautiful.
Operate by both wisdom and revelation
We live and work using the wisdom we’ve gained and listening to God, who at times may guide us in counter-intuitive directions.
Humility, love, and forgiveness