Mission, Vision, & Values
We are a fellowship of Christian believers on mission for the gospel of Jesus Christ and the glory of God.
Mission
We are a fellowship of Christian believers whose mission is to make disciples of Christ by preaching the Biblical gospel of grace, teaching God’s Word faithfully to believers, and supporting one another in this mission and ministry of the Church to the glory of God alone.
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Vision
Our vision is to plant, grow, and revitalize churches made of disciples of Jesus Christ from every nation, race, tribe, and tongue who are Christ-centered, biblically-faithful, mission-minded, Spirit-filled, holy, loving, and united under God for His glory and praise.
Core Values
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Trinitarian
Focused on our Triune God, relying on Him, and walking in wholehearted devotion to Him. Knowing Him, delighting in Him, and enjoying Him forever. Exalting and proclaiming Him. And relying on the Holy Spirit for Christian life and ministry.
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Christ-Centered
Christians are saved and accounted righteous before God only by the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect Man, by faith in his death for us and not by any works or deservings of ours. We believe in grounding our lives and work in those formational historical events of the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of Christ.
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Biblical
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are the inspired Word of God and our primary authority for faith and morals. We are Bible-Driven hence committed to expounding the Bible, with Biblical delight, wholeheartedly walking in the way of God’s Word, preaching it to ourselves and to others. Desiring to do everything in Biblical ways and with Biblical means.
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Historic Anglicanism
We trace our identity to the 16th century English Reformation that valued the Apostolic faith, expressed in Holy Scripture, summarized in the Creeds, celebrated in the dominical Sacraments, and preserved by the traditional Anglican formularies(The Book of Common Prayer-1662, The 39 Articles of Religion, The Ordinal, and The Homilies).
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Missionary
We will equip Anglican Christians to live as beacons of hope and light in their workplaces, neighborhoods and families, and plant new churches, with a special focus on extending the love of God to growing ethnic populations. We are Gospel-Motivated eager to organize our life and ministry around Jesus’ mission. Proclaiming the objective biblical gospel of Jesus Christ to non-Christians for their conversion, and proclaiming the objective biblical gospel of Jesus Christ to Christians for their growth. Making disciple-making disciples of Jesus. Everyone is called to be a missionary.
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Local Congregations
Focused on our Triune God, relying on Him, and walking in wholehearted devotion to Him. Knowing Him, delighting in Him, and enjoying Him forever. Exalting and proclaiming Him. And relying on the Holy Spirit for Christian life and ministry.
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Generous
In our commitment to strengthen our Christian witness, our Anglican identity, our episcopal bonds, and our presence in the world, each parishioner and each congregation is encouraged to give generously, joyfully, sacrificially, with the understanding that all we have is a gift from God. Each Congregation is encouraged to join in the cheerful giving of 10% to support the diocese and its mission, and 10% to outreach and missions.
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Prayer
We cannot do the work of God and accomplish the purpose of God without the power of God and the blessing of God. We therefore commit ourselves to be a Diocese that prays. As God’s people we express our dependence on God through prayer for the Church and the nations.
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Diversity
We believe that the Lord intends his church to be a multiracial, multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual community of believers united as brothers and sisters in Christ in one body through faith. God wants his church to live and demonstrate this gospel-produced and biblically-driven unity on earth in every way possible with love in the bond of peace because we are one in Christ and our primary identity is in Christ. Paul writing to the Colossians says “Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.” (Colossians 3:11). Striving for unity under God in the body of Christ is indeed one of the most important signs of being filled with the Holy Spirit. We value racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in our Diocese and in our missionary endeavors. The Lord must be at the center of this diocese and not unhealthy nationalism, politics, tribalism and racism. As Charles H Spurgeon reminds us “Wherever real Christians might be, whatever the color of their skin, we are all one in Christ Jesus.”
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Holiness of Life
We believe that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Having been saved by Christ and united to him we are called, commanded, and enabled by God to live holy and godly lives in the world. A holy life is characterized by godliness, a determination by the enabling grace of God to obey the Word of God from the heart, and bearing the fruit of the Holy Spirit. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”(Galatians 5:22-24)
