Who We Are

The Mission, Commitments, Values and Future of Northway Christian Church

Our Mission

Northway Christian Church is a community of persons, called by God to be disciples of Jesus Christ unified in faith.

In response to God´s love, we fulfill our mission by proclaiming the Gospel of Christ through worshiping, learning, loving, praying, serving, teaching, sharing and witnessing all to the glory of God.

Our Commitments

In May of 1998 the members and leaders of Northway Christian Church spent an entire weekend doing long range planning using Kennon Callahan´s Twelve Keys for an Effective Church process. At the end of that weekend, Northway named the four keys that we thought would best advance our congregational future. They are:

1. Dynamic, Corporate Worship;
2. Specific, concrete missional objectives;
3. Significant relational groups; and
4. Higher Visibility, both physically and spiritually.

Everything we have done as a church since our Callahan weekend in 1998 has an attempt to live into and out of these four commitments. Staff has been hired, facilities have been utilized, programs have been developed and resources have been allocated in such a way that our commitment to these four keys would be clearly evident.

Our Values

In June of 2001 members and leaders of Northway Christian Church got together again for a time of Re-Vision. The focus of our conversation this time was the values that guide our congregational life and ministry. At the end of this process, seven congregational values of Northway Christian Church were identified:

1. Strong Leadership from both clergy and laity;
2. Traditional Worship with an emphasis on the observance of the ordinances (weekly Lord´s Supper), good preaching and a strong music program;
3. Sensitive Pastoral Care from both ministers and members;
4. Significant Mission from our front door (local) to the ends of the earth (global);
5. Christian Education for all ages;
6. A special emphasis on Senior Adult Ministry; and
7. A conscious commitment to cultivating the Spiritual Disciplines.

Our Future

Church planner Tom Sine says that most of the churches he knows are plagued by "chronic randomness, paralyzing apathy and institutional egocentrism."

By naming our commitments and values as a church, Northway is attempting to reverse that trend in the North American Church that Tom Sine describes. Our congregational commitments and values give us a deliberate focus which counters "chronic randomness." They generate passion which counters "paralyzing apathy." And they lead us outside ourselves which counters "institutional egocentrism."

Northway Christian Church has a sense of what it is that God in Jesus Christ needs us to do at this time, in this place, to manifest His kingdom in our community.

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