Our Covenant and Mission
Our Mission:
St. John's is committed to creating a safe and caring community, working for social justice, and celebrating beliefs that respect freedom of thought.
Our Covenant:
We, the members and friends of St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church, do endeavor to create a safe and caring community together with those who seek and cherish worship without creed, a free and thoughtful search for meaning and a responsive outreach into the wider world.
From our individual consciences, from commitment to our gathered community and from our tradition of democratic process, we make these promises:
- To respect one another's individual religious expression.
- To encourage and promote the healing, transforming power of music, art and literature in worship and in our lives.
- To provide a church school of excellence for our children and to integrate them into the worship and social community of the church.
- To provide lifespan learning opportunities for emotional, intellectual and To support advocacy and outreach into the community beyond St. John's.
- To create and promote programs that begin at home to support justice and equity, locally and throughout the world.
- To affirm our interdependence in the web of life, and to foster healing relationships with the earth and with all earth's children.
We honor our shared values through word and deed. We endeavor to uphold and promote these principles: acceptance of one another; religious diversity and tolerance, social justice, equity and compassion; concern for children and families; the uplifting power of music, art and literature; and the transforming capacity of love
We have covenanted with other congregations to support the Principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association. So do we covenant with one another to sustain our religious community in order to promote individual spiritual growth, with caring and concern for one another, that we might help make a positive difference in the world.
-Adopted November 22, 1998