A mission statement that may not inspire us, but will point us toward the job we are called to do.
When you know what you are about and what you are aiming for, you actually have a shot of getting there. So the question is what are we aiming for?
We are sure this statement is much more compelling, but this is still a good list all the same. Each of these statements do exactly what a mission statement is supposed to do. It focuses where we are going and then hopefully everything we do. We need to touch on something really important, in that our mission statements should be all about our goals for ourselves. Still we strongly believe our calling should be faithful to what God calls us to do, not to achieve a prescribed or standardized checklist of accomplishments and results.
When you know what you are about and what you are aiming for, you actually have a shot of getting there. So the question is what are we aiming for?
- Building relationships with God and young people.
- Engaging young people with God.
- Connecting with youth in an appropriate way so they understand God is relevant to them today.
- To nurture today's youth to be tomorrow's Christian leaders.
- Planting seeds of discipleship to grow great Christians.
- Preaching, teaching, leading, and living the Christian life to excite and inspire young people.
- Fishing them to be fishers of men.
- Impacting young people through the message of the Bible.
- Using all appropriate methods to excite, inspire, capture and ignite young people for Jesus.
- To enable young people to understand and recognize who Jesus is, and what it is to live for Him only.
- Bringing the contemporary message of Christianity to today's youth.
- Building solid Christians on the foundation of The Solid Rock.
We are sure this statement is much more compelling, but this is still a good list all the same. Each of these statements do exactly what a mission statement is supposed to do. It focuses where we are going and then hopefully everything we do. We need to touch on something really important, in that our mission statements should be all about our goals for ourselves. Still we strongly believe our calling should be faithful to what God calls us to do, not to achieve a prescribed or standardized checklist of accomplishments and results.
