Values

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Values

We at Heartland are clarifying out values because we know that values influences how we live. Sometimes organizations will come up with a vision or mission statement that captures what they are all about. Then they create goals and follow carefully created strategies in order to achieve the goals and live out their mission or vision statement. They want to measure results.

We at Heartland, instead of creating strategies to achieve goals, we want to discover what is already working in people's everyday lives. We want to hear people's stories. We spent a year as a church uncovering and declaring our values. We believe that God is working in us and through us and we want to collaborate together to recognize this and then invite others to do the same. We understand that God has a unique calling for each church group and for Heartland we want to be true to the original purposes of the Church and the unique purposes and values he wants Heartland to embrace and live.

We have understood that we have four values that Heartland wants to further embrace and impact how we live. We don't know what type or organized effort we'll come up with, but we are comfortable with sailing the ship as we build it.

Personal Responsibility To Live Mission Driven Lives
Heartland Fellowship encourages personal responsibility to live mission driven lives.

We don’t go to church, we are the church. In scriptures we do not see that people “went to church” rather we see that the church gathered together. Heartland Fellowship gathers each Sunday and in smaller groups in various places, but primarily we will be defined by who we are as people. This has a significant impact on how we live. At Heartland we also understand that we don’t go to a place (church building) to do ministry or participate in programs, but we do ministry wherever we are (in Chilliwack, family, friends etc.) This means that each of us have personal responsibility to live missionally. It’s easier to go to a church building to “do ministry”, but we are trying to reclaim the idea that we are all missionaries everywhere we already are. Each of us will take up our personal responsibility to grow in faith and to live out God’s mission within His Kingdom.

We are missionaries in our families, neighborhoods, and abroad having a burden to bring healing to our broken world.