Vision and Values

Our vision and values elaborate the church's mission statement.

Vision

To influence Durham and the University with the good news about Jesus.
To equip people to make an impact for God in Church and society both locally, nationally and around the world.
To be an open Church that welcomes everyone and helps to draw them into the transforming truth about Jesus.
To serve the residents and students of Durham with love and humility.
To act as a catalyst for partnership and mission in the body of Christ.

To pursue a radical vision of the Church which obeys Scripture, lives in the power of the Spirit and spreads the good news about Jesus.
To communicate the kingdom of God with passion through words, works and wonders.
To be wholehearted in discipleship so that Jesus is Lord in every part of our lives.
To be a Church that keeps at the centre of its life loving community, where everyone aims to grow in faith through prayer and living out the Bible, and where together we spread the good news about Jesus.
To order our life together so that people are valued and the gifts that God gives them are used for the common good.
To put God at the centre of all we are and do.