Our Vision:
To be a faithful, growing church that demonstrates true community, deep Christian spirituality, and a passion for justice. (Micah 6:8)

Our Mission:
To be and to share the Good News of Jesus Christ, witnessing, loving, and serving from our doorsteps “to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)

Our Imperative:
To be an instrument of God in the strengthening and building of faithful and effective congregations in the Northwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for this mission. (Ephesians 4:11-13, 15-16)

• Become the Good News
  • Nurturing faith
  • Practicing and teaching the spiritual disciplines
  • Foster Disciples identity
  • Renewing congregational life
  • Developing leaders
    

• Share the Good News
  • Emphasizing ministry with children, youth, young adults and families
  • Doing evangelism
  • Establishing new congregations
  • Creating ministries with older adults
    

• Serve from “our doorsteps to the ends of the Earth”
  • Engaging in ministries of reconciliation, compassion, unity, and justice
    

• Be an anti-racist/pro-reconciliation church
• Strengthen relationships among all manifestations of the church
• Share mutually and more fully the stewardship of God’s gifts of our life in Christ
• Encourage the growing diversity within our church family and community
• Work with our many ecumenical and global partners top heal the brokenness of the body of Christ and human community
  

Unity (Ephesians 4:3-6)
As Disciples, we value Christian unity. The unity of the church is not a human construct that we enact through voting. Our unity is a gift of God, a sign of God’s glorious hope for the world. As Christians, our baptism makes us one with Christians of every time and place. This unity does not imply uniformity. Instead, it calls for us to live with integrity even as we live within contexts that are diverse in many ways. We value God’s great gift of unity, and will joyfully seek to worship and work with traditional and new ecumenical partners.

Transformation (II Corinthians 5:16-18)
We believe that through Jesus Christ, God has the power to overcome evil with good, and hopelessness with hope. Each of us is a living testimony of the power of God to transform human lives. We value God’s transformation and will seek to develop among our congregations enhanced ability to share faith in ways that bring people of no faith to faith in Jesus Christ.

Relationships (Romans 12:3-8; Galatians 3:28)
No Region can be defined as just staff or an office. So then, the Northwest Region is comprised of congregations throughout Washington, Northern Idaho and Alaska. We are congregations filled with women, men, youth, and children who are connected together by faith and geography, for the glory of God and the advancement of God’s people. Each of us is unique and valuable to God and ministry as lived out in relationship with other Christians in the tradition of Jesus Christ. Simply put, we need each other. Our futures are inextricably woven together. Therefore, we value and encourage worship and work that benefit from create in partnerships across the Region.. No part of the Region is an island of itself. The stronger the partnerships across the Region, the stronger the Region will be.

Justice (Micah 6:8; Luke 10:25-37)
Throughout the Bible, God demonstrates intolerance for human suffering and disenfranchisement, and empowers humans to speak out for justice, for making wrong things right. We value justice and will seek to be an instrument of God in the establishment of social, economic and political structures that reflect God’s vision of human wholeness, dignity and respect. We also value environmental justice, maintaining that the earth is a gift of God that humanity must honor and protect.

Ministerial Nurture and Support

Justice and Ecumenical Concerns