Our community of faith is on a quest to become missional. Imagine if the church became the missionary. Imagine if we took seriously the calling to love our neighbor. Imagine if we really followed Jesus to the people he wants to be with. Our hope is to build Missional Communities of people who are willing to move out with their faith together.

Missional Community requires 2 or more people who are sharing life together, sharing a spiritual journey together, and engaging culture together in whatever form God is leading them to take.

Sharing Life means intentionally building relationships within your missional community; having fun, getting to know each other and supporting each other in life.

Spiritual Journey means pursuing God together; cultivating intimacy with God through spiritual formation interactions and supporting each other in your spiritual journeys as you grow together towards Christ-like character.

Engaging Culture means intentionally building relationships with people who don’t know Jesus; listening to them, loving them, and connecting them to the family of Christ. Supporting each other as you pursue people individually and creatively develop “middle space” activities as a group.

The form is the shape or style that a missional community may take. A missional community may pursue a specific interest or hobby, it may be a discussion group or a sports team, maybe centered on service or prayer, or possibly a group that meets in a neighborhood. It may start as a group of friends or with people who have never met. It may be large or small, relaxed or structured, women or mixed, recovery or discovery, affinity or intergenerational, long-term or short-term, whatever! Just remember the function remains the same (SL, SJ, EC), but the form can look totally different depending on the passions, interests, style and location of any given missional community. Allow God to lead in the discovery of the form.

A Missional Community is open to sojourners or people who are beginning to develop a curiosity or openness to Jesus. Together you need to create an environment that is a place that is safe, inviting and welcoming to people at all levels of faith, not judgmental, but open to questions, differences and discovery.

Go for it!