Creating space for Jesus to shape people together in God’s love.
Our Mission Statement is what we do to live out our Vision. It targets a particular need in the public we serve with a special blessing.
Mission Statement
In this case, both the need and the blessing have to do with creating space for Jesus. Like most North Americans, people in Markham and the Greater Toronto Area tend to be “space-challenged” people, with overcrowded lifestyles, preoccupied minds, and cluttered hearts. As we create a wide variety of “spaces” for Jesus – both for ourselves as well as for people in the greater community – He will fill lives with His beautiful, transforming presence (Revelation 3:20). Our Mission Statement challenges us to acknowledge and address the ways that Jesus tends to get crowded out of people’s lives, including our own. It also compels us to consider what “creating space for Jesus” might look like in our hearts and minds, our daily lives and work, our homes and families, our worship services and ministries, and even our church facilities.
As we create space for Jesus, He will shape people together in God’s love by the power of His Spirit. Being shaped in Christ-like love is the very centre of God’s purposes for all of us (Romans 8:29, The Message; Matthew 22:37-40; 1 Corinthians 13:1-3; Ephesians 5:1-2). As we create space for Jesus, He will shape diverse peoples together into a community of unity that embodies His love to each other, to the greater community, and to the world.
