Union Christian Church has an excellent mission statement! It’s printed at the top of each Midweek Update and prominently placed on the church website, too. You may have grown so accustomed to seeing our mission statement that you don’t notice it very much anymore. Here is our mission statement:
Called by God and led by the Holy Spirit, Union Christian Church is a caring community that learns and shares the stories of faith, serves within and beyond our walls, and welcomes all to gather at Christ’s Table.
As I sought to discern God’s call about serving as your pastor, I remember prayerfully pausing to consider this mission statement. As I did, several words started to jump out at me. These five words began to tell me who you were and how God could use you in the world before I met you in person. Here are the words that jumped out at me:
Called
Learn
Share
Serve
Welcome
Over the next five editions of the Midweek Update, we’ll pause and take a look at each of these five important words in our mission statement. As we unpack our mission statement a little more, I hope it will remind us of who we are as a church and help us discern how God wants to use us in the world going forward!
Each time you open your Midweek Update over the next five weeks or browse our church website, I invite you to read the mission statement and really take in all the words. Then, ask God to show you what these five key words mean for you as a follower of Jesus and for us as the Union Family together.