Mission

“What sorts of mission programs does your church have?” That’s the question people often ask when they want to know more about a church’s outlook on the world.

A congregation’s mission programs tell a lot about the life and witness of a congregation. They reveal the deep commitments and core theologies of a church. But mission is much more than a program. Mission—which means “sending”—forms the identity and vocation of a church that sees itself as comprised of people who are sent by God to be God’s instruments of love and justice in the world.

God sends the people in this congregation both close to home and to the far reaches of the globe. And we are confident that in these places—some mundane, some broken, some healing, all beautiful—God is already doing a new thing. Trusting in that, we see the marks of God’s hands in so many places.

As you read about our mission programs, we hope you’ll remember that mission for us is partly about good programs, but it is mostly about the people we are called to be – “sent people,” called to participate in God’s healing, hopeful purposes for the world.