Our Values
These are the core statements that guide our community life.
Our logo, created in 2012, is an important visual statement of this community. The tagline that accompanies it—“Feed your spirit, fulfil your purpose, feel at home”—speaks of what we continue to hope people will find themselves able to do as part of this community.
Our Identity and Values Statement and our Covenant for Harmony serve as guideposts for our life in community and our decision-making processes.
Our Identity and Values Statement
We are an open faith community seeking to keep Jesus’ message relevant and real in our complex world—a message of an abundant life for all.
We value a contemporary Christian theology that works through our lives.
We are a place for people to seek and find God.
We value worship that connects with real life.
We share inspiring messages and music that challenge us to live in God’s way.
We value spiritual growth.
We are seekers of understanding and provide a safe environment for exploring faith and spirituality
together.
We value inclusivity and harmony, honesty and respect in our relationships.
We are an affirming ministry that values diversity of all kinds, including sexual orientation and
gender identity.
We value the balance and wholeness that comes through healing.
We promote healing and wholeness in
many ways, including through our Healing Pathways and pastoral care ministries.
We value being a community without borders, a church without walls.
Nurturing talents and gifts, we make connections through outreach to the wider community
by means of our programmes, music, and ministries.
We value social and global justice.
We strive to connect faith with action, recognizing that partnerships make a difference in engaging
the world.
We value the God-given gift of our home, the Earth.
We recognize the need to adapt our thinking and our actions in order to
restore and sustain our environment.
Commitment to Community
We are a community of Christians who seek to live together in loving covenant following Jesus and
his teachings.
We live and exercise this participation within the governance and the spirit of the United Church
of Canada.
Equality
We recognize that everyone has wisdom and talents to offer. We will work to create a culture of
inclusiveness.
We will strive for full participation.
Respect
We will treat each other the way we would like to be treated, and so:
• We commit to caring for the well being of this community and invite persons to speak for
themselves with honesty.
• We commit to providing a safe environment where ideas can be nurtured and discussed.
Openness
We will respect diversity of opinion.
We will ensure that all voices have the opportunity to be heard. We will use nonjudgmental language
and behaviour.
We will strive to understand the other person’s view.
We will commit to open communications between and among individuals and groups.
Commitment to Process
The Congregational Board, ministries and committees will work in good faith for the best interests of the whole Church.
Our processes will be transparent.
Our community recognizes that conflict will arise and we all commit to caring resolution. We will
create a culture of talking directly to the person or group we disagree with.
We will contribute to the decision-making process and support the decisions once they have been made.