Mission Statement:

Seeking God…Sharing God

Vision Statements:

1.      Centrality of Prayer

Goal:  To develop and implement a 3-year plan to extend a call for congregational wide prayer.

 

2.      Spiritual Formation

Goal:  To develop a plan for intentional spiritual formation for all ages, including a plan for implementation.

 

3.      Something BIG outside the walls of Pasadena Covenant

Goal:  To partner in planting the “Church of the Redeemer”

Commitment Statements:

In addition to the mission and vision statements and our core values, certain strong implications grew out of our process and need to be stated:

1. We affirm our current experience of worship:  intergenerational; eclectic in music, art forms and traditions; hospitable to the needs of the other; and offered in reverence to God.

2. We charge the Trustee Council to review staff positions and to reorganize the lay leadership structure of Pasadena Covenant in light of the direction of Vision to Action and with attention to leadership development.

3. As recommended by the Trustees, and after discerning to the best of our ability and through prayer who Pasadena Covenant “is” and “is called to be” in this season, we charge that future staff and leadership decisions be evaluated and guided by the degree to which they are supportive of the direction set by this process and summarized herein.

4. We charge that stewardship of God’s gifts to us be guided by our vision for this season.

5. We charge the Trustee Council to commit to an on-going Vision to Action process.

Harvest and Sow:

• In support of  “Seeking God…Sharing God”, the Trustees recommend that we balance our investment in our own ministries, with planting ministry outside our walls.

• The area of internal investment that the Trustees want to support is to attend to our deferred maintenance, beautification of our facilities, and needed upgrades.

• The gifts of the two properties (N. Lake Ave. house and Elizabeth House) were given for the sake of ministry, not for the purpose of increasing our properties.

• Good stewardship calls us to anticipate how these gifts will be used next.  They are gifts that God has given us to “Harvest” and “Sow”.

• Because we have gifts God has already provided, we want to use our resources in the spirit of  “Seeking God…Sharing God”, we then believe that at this time God has provided for us to:

1. Plant the Church of the Redeemer through Household Support and

2. Address our own needs for deferred maintenance, beautification projects and delayed upgrades by Harvesting gifts already provided to use and Sowing them in new ministry.

We have listened to hear God’s leading

We will respond in obedience

We invite your personal commitment to:

• Make prayer central

• Intentionally develop yourselves spiritually

• Extend God’s grace beyond our walls