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__**Who we want to be and how we are going to get there!**__ __**Generation**__= all of the people who were born at approximately the same time, considered as a group, and especially when considered as having shared interests and attitudes. __**United**__= 1. combined into one 2. formed by or resulting from the union of two or more person or things 3. in agreement or harmony. __**Our Mission and Purpose**__ __//We are a generation united to love God, to love people, and to serve the world.//__ __//**United**//__- **psalm 133:1**(How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!) **Ephesians 4:1-16** ( As a prisoner for the lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- on Lord, one faith, on baptism; on God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us graces has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says:  "when he ascended on high,  he led captives in his train  and gave gifts to men."  (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He who descended is the very one who ascended high than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors, and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become Mature, attaining the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. **1 peter 3:8** (Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.)

Now the body is made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, were would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body every one of them just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, "I dont need you!' and the head cannot say to the fee, "I dont need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. And in the church God has appointed first of all spostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But eagerly desire the greater gifts.) __//**Love**//__- **1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, 13** (Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.; And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these if love.) __//**To love God**//__- **Mark 12:28-31** (One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" "The most important one," answered Jesus, "Is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'") __//**To love people**//__- **Matthew 22:34-40** (Hearing that Jesus had silences the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it; "love your meighbor as yourself' All the law and the Prophets hand on these two commandments.") __//**To Serve the World**//__- **Philippians 2:1-18** (If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being on in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who being in very nature God, Did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, But made himself nothing taking the very nature of the servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, and humbled himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. There, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed-not only in my presence, but now much more in my absense-continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Do everything without complaining or arguring, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life- in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.)
 * 1 Corinthians 12:12-30** (The body is a unit, through it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body- whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free- and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.
 * Matthew 28:18-20** (Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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.")
 * Ephesians 2:10** (For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.)

=__Core Values__= __**Core**-__ essential part; the central or most important part of something. __**Values**-__ Principles of standards; the accepted principles or standards of a person or a group.


 * Faith**- Belief, and trust in, and loyalty to God(Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
 * Unity**- coming together as one family, one body, one church, to acheive a common goal (to love God, to love people, and serve the world).
 * Integrity**- The quality of knowing and obeying God's standards for life in public and private through a conscious decision, leading of the Holy Spirty, and depenence in Christ Jesus.
 * Excellence**- Doing all things to the best of your God given abilities for God's glory.
 * Support and Encourage One Another**- speaking words of love, helping other to become Christ like.
 * Serve One Another**- putting others above yourself, doing good to and for others, taking the focus off yourself, etc.