Core Values

Guiding Principles:

• 1. Love your neighbor.
     
     Collaborate; embrace genuine and respectful relationships. Pursue connections with family, friends, volunteers, leaders, and staff that are accountable and authentic.
     I Peter 4:10: “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.”

      

     “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32: “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,” Hebrews 10:24

      

     Create good work. Do things to a high standard and without waste, using God’s resources – time, finances, natural resources – wisely; fruitfulness; take risks and trust God.

      

     Colossians 3:23-24: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.”

      

     Acts 20:35: “In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

     “Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, and serve the Lord.” Romans 12:11

      

  2. Seek Spiritual Health.
     

     Be humble and of good character. Being humble means recognizing, in our hearts, the truth that we really are no better than anyone else. We are not proud, arrogant, or haughty. Character is who we are because of our relationship with Christ. It is something that can be built and learned as we follow Him. Matthew 23:11-12: “The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

     “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.” I Peter 5:6-7: Finally, brothers and sisters,  whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. Philippians 4:8
     
      
  3. Embrace teamwork.
     
     Build a team to carry our vision worldwide; share responsibility.: “… Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him are the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.” I Peter 4:8, 10-11

      

     “But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.” I Corinthians 12:24b-27

      

     “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17
     Ecclesiastes 4:9-10: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.”