Our Core Values

Releasing Grace, Hope and Freedom

Mandate  Releasing Grace, Hope and Freedom

Excerpt from our story:

‘Many of the people who have come and gone over the years have been bearers of varying degrees of emotional, physical or religious trauma. Many of whom have come or been caught, have been tagged: touched, cleansed, liberated, equipped, encouraged, refreshed, healed, baptized, made whol-er. They then have relished in their new freedom and found the courage to move forward, move away or simply start afresh.’

Mission(What are we doing?)

Making the most of every opportunity to tag any person of any age with the grace of God

Motives (Core Reasons: Why are we doing this?)

1.Because we have made outward mission our primary focus:‘Outsiders first – Insiders second’

2.Because we want to communicate God’s unforced rhythms of grace (Mat. 11:29)

3.Because we choose to live fully and creatively in our 21st Century context

4.Because we have each been uniquely equipped to fulfil God’s purposes

5.Because we believe relationships in small groups build bridges and sustain life

Map (Strategy: How are we going to achieve our mission?)    

Circulate …among friends, family and community   

Cultivate …a relationship with God with others

reCreate … the purposes of God in ourselves and others

Celebrate … God's transforming Grace every chance we get

 Metaphors (Who we may resemble while fulfilling our mission)

      Tag and Release

      Open Door

      Oasis – Well – Living Water

      Surf Life Saving

      Accident and Emergency

iMagine (our future as a better place)

•         A people known for our freedom, exuberance and participation, where we are so ecstatic over our relationship with the Living God that we will spontaneously dance and our exuberance would bubble out of us like a spring of life giving water - where children dance, not because we tell them to but because they want to and they see the joy in us...

•         A people of artistry and creativity where talent is welcomed and enhanced and developed to its greatest potential, where the best songs have yet to be written...

•         A people with whom the presence of God is so real that others will be cueing up wanting to know how they can have what we’re having… where others are healed through worship because the presence of God is so real...

•         A generous people of unlimited resources where instead of us applying to community organizations for grants, people will be applying to us for grants, we will be the giving organization...

•         A people who are so well known in the community as a people who care, a people who have a light on and a people with an Open Door that perhaps the police may even come to consider us as a first port of call when they need a place of refuge for someone…

•         A people in whom there is no judgment or condemnation of others because each person knows that we are simply a sinner saved by that same Grace: Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved…

•         A people in whom fear is replaced by encouragement and failure is seen an opportunity for growth and learning before another attempt is made, so that we ‘build each other up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature…’ Ephesians 4:13