Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission

  • To see our membership eagerly pursuing spiritual truth, being faithful in their devotion to Christ, equipped for ministry by God’s Word and demonstrating Christian character in every area of their lives.
  • To see our membership serving the church with their gifts and ministries, and being “salt and light,” to impact the communities where they live.
  • To see our membership experiencing healthy family life where:
    • The men are loving their wives and children and being leaders in their homes.
    • The women are loving their husbands and children and serving their community.
    • The children are respectful, obedient and honoring toward their parents.
  • To see our membership fully supporting the activities of the One Church in the city — recognizing that we are only one of many congregations that make-up the Church in the South Bay.
  • To see our church membership grow in number so we can become a stronger Christian influence and have the resources to successfully accomplish all that God has called us to do.
  • To plant new churches in the South Bay by sending out members who feel called to begin a church in a specific neighborhood or area.
  • To provide an active leadership training program that is equipping and releasing men and women into ministry with the character, content and gifting that reflects spiritual maturity and readiness.
  • To someday own our own facility and be debt free of mortgages, thus investing more in training future leaders, planting new churches and sending out missionaries.

 

Our Vision

At Kingsway Community Church, we are committed to be a people having been led by the Spirit of God to receive Jesus Christ as our Savior, and feeling led to join ourselves to this community of believers, we do now, in the presence of God and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into this covenant with Jesus our Lord and with one another as members of Kingsway Community Church.

  • We covenant ourselves to be a loving people, bound together by our love for Jesus Christ and committed to walk together in Christian love.
  • We covenant ourselves to be a prophetic people, inspired and directed by the Holy Spirit, and committed to uphold God’s Word as our rule of faith and practice.
  • We covenant ourselves to be a united people, joined to one another and to the One Body of all believers under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and committed to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
  • We covenant ourselves to be a people of praise, worshipping Jesus Christ as Lord, and committed to the faithful offering-up of sacrifices of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
  • We covenant ourselves to be a people of light, living our lives to His glory, and committed to being His witnesses in the neighborhoods where we live, the places where we work, and the schools we attend.
  • We covenant ourselves to be a people of blessing, serving one another sacrifically, and committed to extending kindness to those in need, and to participation in ministries that are taking the message of hope to the nations.
  • We covenant ourselves to be a people of prayer, remembering one another often in our prayers, and committed to pray for the Kingdom of God to come, and His will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

 

Our Values

  • VALUE of Covenant - Upon receiving salvation man becomes bonded to God. He makes all the arrangements and graciously offers His salvation-covenant to us. We submit in obedience to the terms of God’s covenant bond with us and in return we receive His covenant mercy, faithfulness and loving kindness. Covenant bonds can also be experienced among all fellow believers. This bonding holds pastors together in common goals and activities and also ties the local pastor to church members and members to each other. God’s Holy Spirit generates and maintains this covenant bonding. We learn how to walk in it but aren’t responsible for creating it.
  • VALUE of Kingdom of God - Jesus Christ is a sovereign and current ruler over the entire universe and all things within it. He develops and administrates the kingdom through His appointed leaders and all those who serve Him by the gifts and enabling of the Holy Spirit. The Kingdom of God is eternal, permanent and unshakable. Further, His Kingdom stands, unmovable and indestructible, within the human structures of family, church, government and market place.
  • VALUE of Biblical Authority - God’s revelation to mankind carries the authority inherent in His Person and Nature. Therefore, His statements concerning the created order, people and life-style are definitive. God shares His authority with those who fill certain roles within His Kingdom. When we receive His authority, we carry it as responsibility and accountability to the Living God. Those who abuse God’s authority face the consequences of His displeasure and discipline. Jesus describes the misuse of authority as leaders who make people feel the burdensome weight of their authority.
  • VALUE of Fatherhood - God the Father expresses His own fatherhood through Jesus Christ (the eternally begotten Son) and through all men on earth. His fatherly image pervades all men and stands revealed among all nations (tribes and societies) on earth. The responsibility that God the Father exercises over the entire human population, He shares with men as they lay down their lives for their wives and children.
  • VALUE of Family - God has created the family as a mirror image to that of Jesus Christ and His Church. Even as Christ is the Head of His Church, so also the father is the head of his family. Even as Christ lays down His life for the Church, so also the father lays down his life for his own wife and children. The wife submits to her husband as to Jesus Christ. The father carries the responsibility before Jesus Christ for leading his wife and children in the ways of Christ.
  • VALUE of Single Life - God’s purposes and values are also fulfilled in those who by the Spirit’s giftings, live and serve God as single people. That the Name of Jesus be glorified on earth, unmarrieds are called: First to serve God under Christ’s Lordship; secondly, to servanthood toward Him within and outside His Church; and thirdly, to moral purity worthy of all those who follow Jesus Christ.
  • VALUE of Distinct Gender Roles - God, out of His own Nature and in His revealed Word, has defined gender roles for people on earth. The Scriptures define roles for men and women distinctly and specifically. The uniqueness of each role reflects the Image of God in people. To confuse or exchange God-given roles brings confusion and self-destruction into society, whether the individual, family, local church or local city. The God-given role carries the anointing and enabling of God for personal growth, fulfillment and success in God’s Kingdom on earth.
  • VALUE of Personal Responsibility - God gives to each of His children a sphere of work (calling), with accountability for the responsibility given. Jesus continually exhorts believers to comprehend, enter into and fulfill their calling. Believers, by their own initiative, reach out for God’s sphere of activity in their lives and seek to fulfill the unique destiny He has ordained for them.
  • VALUE of Pastoral Care - For each member of the Body of Christ, a Spirit-gifted pastoral leader should be designated to serve them as they enter the maturation process, comprehend their destiny in God, complete their training process and engage the sphere of ministry God has chosen for him or her. This designated pastor should be committed to intercede for, teach, exhort and confront as necessary. The pastoral leader responds to the believer’s needs, providing loving care, oversight and counsel rooted in the Scriptures. As the Great Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep, so the designated pastor should be willing to lay down his own life for those he serves.
  • VALUE of Discipleship - Every believer is to yield his life to Christ’s leadership and training by asking to become accountable in his personal life and ministry to fellow pastors or workers. As with Jesus’ disciples, so with us. 1. Productive Discipleship has a focus, specific goals and time limit. 2. Personal Discipleship refers to developing a person’s walk with God in one’s family, church and business. 3. Training Discipleship refers to identifying a person’s gifts and calling, and equipping that person for serving God.
  • VALUE of Servanthood - The Isaiah hymns (Isaiah 42-53) set forth the character of the Messiah - He is God’s servant. Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, came to earth to serve the purposes of His Father. Jesus explicitly states that the greatest worker in His Father’s kingdom is the servant. Paul the Apostle presents the great servant hymn (Philippians 2) as the model for our lives as Christian men and women. The servant-leader is the only model for those who oversee the flock of God. Servanthood means that we expend our lives furthering God’s purposes by the power of the Holy Spirit. Servanthood draws upon our time, our energies, and our resources to serve God without expectation of “earthly” reward. In a special way we first serve the needs of the members of the Church, then we serve the needs of our society. In practiced humility, we give preference to others by considering their needs as priority over ours. And as servants, with studied endurance, we bear the sufferings which rightly fall to all those who follow Jesus Christ in truth.
  • VALUE of Gifts of the Spirit - Jesus Christ continues to distribute, as He wishes, the gifts of the Holy Spirit throughout His Church on earth. The gifts of the Spirit enable people to come to Christ, to mature as believers, to minister the grace of God to one another, to equip for ministry and to carry God’s Word to all the world. The gifts of the Spirit enable the believer to focus his or her life on what God is saying and what God is doing, rather than on their own intellect, training or experience.
  • VALUE of Worship - God draws us to approach Him through progressive stages of thanksgiving, praise and worship. Worship may take the form of quiet and silent adoration; of joyous effusive shouting; of majestic and stately glorifying. Spirit-guided worship provides the context in which the gifts of the Spirit emerge, especially the prophetic word. Believers who engage worship in the Spirit also engage the Life and Breath of the Spirit, as well as the Truth about God.
  • VALUE of Small Groups - Clusters of believers within a local church meet together regularly for personal edification or for training in specific areas of ministry. Small groups can enhance the growth and ministry of the local church by attracting the unchurched, by providing training for potential leaders and by focusing believers on equipping for service.
  • VALUE of Mission - God has given to local churches the responsibility to engage the worldwide mission of the Church, as stated by Jesus Christ just before His ascension: (Acts 1:8) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Outreach as expressed in local evangelism, church planting, short-term mission and career missionaries all contribute to the fulfillment of the Great Commission for the local church. (Matthew 28:19-20) “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
  • VALUE of Education - God gives to the leadership team and people of the local church the responsibility and gifting for equipping God’s people for the work of service. The Word of God provides the mindset and content. The local church carries the gifting to train the people of God to serve Him appropriately and to confront the local society and nation. God’s gifts upon the local members determine just how the local church can engage this process. It is primarily the responsibility of parents to educate their children, however the local church can support and enchance the parent’s responsibility by providing the following: (1) marriage and parenting classes, (2) adult and children’s Sunday School, (3) Christian Day School, (4) home schooling support, (5) Bible training for missions, and (6) Bible training in theology.