Our Mission:
‘Knowing Jesus, becoming like Jesus and making Jesus known’
Our heart is to know Jesus personally so that we can grow in love and share this love and the good news we experience with others in our communities.
Our Vision for how we fulfill this Mission is as follows:
- We are a family! We believe that relationship is key to our life as a church. We are the body and Jesus is our head.
- This means we are active in our own discipleship and contribute to the wider discipleship of the church family. We learn to feed ourselves and each other.
- We believe we are called to serve from a position of rest, our priority is spending time with Jesus. We go at Jesus’ pace.
- As we become more like Jesus through the Holy Spirit in us and the love of others, we seek to share that with all in our community. We are blessed to be a blessing.
Isaiah chapter 61 in the Bible is a scripture that we really want to live out, it gave rise to our name ‘the Oaks’!:
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed…They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.” – Isaiah 61:1 & 3
Finally, our Values explain how we believe we can practically fulfill our Vision:
We want to have a:
1. High View of God
2. High View of Others
3. High View of Ourselves
And show:
4. Sacrificial Love