Mission
Our mission statement seeks to answer "What?"—what we are doing together as Union Center Christian Church.
Our mission is timeless and shoudn't change.
Year after year you will hear the same phrase that helps guide us into what we believe God has called us as the people of God.
We are creating space to practice the way of Jesus through rhythms of
engaging with God, journeying together, and spreading hope.
Vision
Our mission is timeless and shoudn't change, but our vision is timely and should change.
Every year, we choose three practices that help us engage with God, journey together, and spread hope. Focusing on these practices for a whole year, helps us to build them into our life rhythm. It also means that anyone can join us, at any point in the year, and be able to know what our focus is for that year.
We engage with God by beholding the Lamb of God.
We believe that what you behold is what you become. In 2024, as everything is vying for the currency of your attention, we believe it takes intentional practice to behold the Lamb of God.
We journey together by creating space for love to flourish.
We create space intentionally on Sunday mornings before or after our normal worship service to gather in groups for 8 weeks (unless otherwise denoted).
These different groups will help equip you to practice the way of Jesus together.
For more information on Creating Space, you can learn more here.
We spread hope simply by feeding hungry people.
We operate a weekly food pantry in order to help alleviate the crisis of food insecurity in our region. We don’t require anything of someone to come to our CHOW pantry because we believe that everyone created in the image of God should have access to food.
If you need resources from our pantry, please confidentially contact us in advance at info@unioncenter.org.
Values
Jesus said that what we value is where our hearts are. Our values represent the character of who we want to become. The values that we have chosen aren't the only things that we value, but they represent important areas of growth that we've experienced as a part of our church's story. We hope that anytime we gather together, these character traits are felt by each person.
We value joyful commitment to Jesus, reliance on the Holy Spirit and trust in our Father.
We value our relationships with one another, sharing life together and
pursuing true peace as God’s family.
We value our vulnerability to a sovereign God, where we surrender our lives
daily to Him and one another.
We value and love all people made in God’s image by living out
God’s grace in word and action.
We value the community where we are called to live and seek to build partnerships that spread hope locally and throughout the world.
We value intentional, sacrificial, faith-filled actions that achieve our purpose of embodying God’s love to every neighbor.
