A Culture of Goodness
As a community, we have intentionally invested in developing and living into what we call A Culture of Goodness. It is a commitment to becoming a people marked by the beauty, goodness, and truth of Jesus.
This commitment shapes how we lead, serve, communicate, and care for one another. Across our church and school, our teams are guided by seven relational commitments that we value.
An Ongoing Investment
Since 2020, we have intentionally invested in this culture, building on the shoulders of those who came before us while creating space for the generations who will follow.
This commitment has accompanied changes to our organizational structure, including establishing directors to support staff and volunteers, introducing an Executive Team, and clarifying the role and involvement of our Board of Trustees. Over the years, we have also invested in expanding our Human Resources team, providing harassment prevention training, updating policies, improving internal reporting processes, and strengthening safeguards in the onboarding of staff and volunteers across our organization.
These investments are not the completion of our work, but part of an ongoing responsibility to cultivate a community where people are valued, cared for, and protected.
Holding Space for Joy + Sorrow
We recognize that pursuing a culture of goodness also requires us to acknowledge where we have fallen short, where people have experienced harm, and where brokenness, sorrow, and pain remain.
Our commitment to goodness does not mean overlooking these realities. It calls us to face them with honesty, humility, compassion, and accountability.
We believe that becoming a community marked by beauty, goodness, and truth requires both celebrating the ways God is at work among us and remaining willing to confront the places where we need to grow and change.
We continue this work with gratitude for what has been, humility about what is, and hope for what is still to come.
A Prayer For Our Community
“…For this is who we are: a people of The Promise—a people shaped in the image of the God whose very being generates all joy in the universe, yet who also weeps and grieves its brokenness.
So we, your children, are also at liberty to lament our losses, even as we simultaneously rejoice in the hope of their coming restoration…
…to remember, grieve, and honor what was, to live with thanksgiving in what is, and to invest in the hope of what will be.”
– A Liturgy for Embracing Both Joy & Sorrow from Every Moment Holy, Volume II, by Douglas Kaine McKelvey.