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Our Vision:

Leading our neighbors into life changing relationships with Jesus Christ.

Our Core Values:

  • People matter to God - We value people for how God sees, loves and accepts them.
  • Every member is a minister - We value every person's calling from Christ.
  • Worship brings us into the presence of God - We value building a community that seeks God at its center.
  • Teaching is for life change - We value growing by applying God's Word to our lives.
  • We must grow larger and smaller at the same time - We value meaningful and contagious community.
  • Changing methods... Unchanging message - We value relevance, creativity and innovation in accomplishing our mission.
  • God is honored in excellence - We value doing the very best we can with what we have.
  • Focus on the mission that unites, not details that divide - We value unity and diversity.
  • Harmony with one another and creation - We value responsible living.

Or to put it another way...

Jacob’s Well is under construction and always will be, both as individuals and as a community. That’s how faith works. We started in September of 2006 and are ‘re-inventing church for people who don’t like church.’ We will be discovering what that means and how to do it forever.

At Jacob's Well faith is a wrestling match. We are uncompromising about the fact that we follow Jesus by loving God with all our heart, soul and mind and loving our neighbors as ourselves. But we know that takes radical openness and honesty. Doubts and questions are good things at Jacob's Well; they can help us grow when we explore them instead of hiding them. We'd rather have hard questions than easy answers.

We also know that while many people are uninterested and even turned-off by organized religion, a vague, disconnected and undisciplined faith doesn’t get anyone anywhere. We grow spiritually when we are focused, connected and committed.

Jacob’s Well also seeks to be the kind of church people are, not have. That’s why we don’t own a building, and we challenge ourselves every week to practice what God is showing us.

We believe in taking risks too. There are many ways to grow in relationship with God and each other. So we try to be creative and not get stuck on one formula for worship. We love to experiment and learn from what works and what doesn’t. And besides, whoever thought church needed to be boring?

Finally we know that God loves you enough to accept you just the way you are, but too much to leave you that way! The same for goes for each of us.

Learn more about us and our history here.

See a diagram about our Vision here.

Learn more about Pastor Greg Meyer here. And at his blogsite www.precariouspastor.net 

Interested in reading notes from our recent visioning Board meeting? Click here.

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