Barre
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Barre Congregational and United Church of Christ
Our Mission:
To serve God and to spread the word and love of God's risen son, Jesus Christ, to all people through Christian faith and unity. By our words and actions we will bring love, hope and acceptance to family and neighbors, respecting differences and diversities.
To serve God... We belong, not to ourselves alone, but to God who created us, blesses us and wants to make us better than we could either be or even imagine being on our own.
To spread the word and love... We do not want to keep it a secret that there is more to life than our plans and our possessions.
God's risen son, Jesus Christ... In the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, a way is shown to us and we seek with all our hearts to follow in that way.
To all people... God's love is for all people, and our love needs to imitate God's, recognizing all humanity as our neighbors and fellow children of God.
Through Christian faith and unity... We seek to learn from one another, knowing that none of us has a monopoly on the truth and we affirm that Jesus Christ himself is the only head of the Church.
By our words and actions... We want to speak words of hope and comfort to all around us and we know that our actions speak louder than our words.
Bring love, hope, and acceptance... We believe that we are vessels of the love God offers, messengers of the hope spoken in the Holy Spirit and ambassadors of the acceptance Jesus showed to people rejected by others.
To family and neighbors... We believe that the love that God lends to us is to be shared with those near us, in deepening the relationships between people who share lives together and also to be shared with those far from us, known to us only through TV images and newspaper stories.
Respecting differences and diversities. We believe that God has made us different from each other and we thank God for the chance to become friends with people whose stories are different from our own and with whom we don't always agree. We believe that it is through listening to each other that God leads us to the truth.
To serve God and to spread the word and love of God's risen son, Jesus Christ, to all people through Christian faith and unity. By our words and actions we will bring love, hope and acceptance to family and neighbors, respecting differences and diversities.
To serve God... We belong, not to ourselves alone, but to God who created us, blesses us and wants to make us better than we could either be or even imagine being on our own.
To spread the word and love... We do not want to keep it a secret that there is more to life than our plans and our possessions.
God's risen son, Jesus Christ... In the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, a way is shown to us and we seek with all our hearts to follow in that way.
To all people... God's love is for all people, and our love needs to imitate God's, recognizing all humanity as our neighbors and fellow children of God.
Through Christian faith and unity... We seek to learn from one another, knowing that none of us has a monopoly on the truth and we affirm that Jesus Christ himself is the only head of the Church.
By our words and actions... We want to speak words of hope and comfort to all around us and we know that our actions speak louder than our words.
Bring love, hope, and acceptance... We believe that we are vessels of the love God offers, messengers of the hope spoken in the Holy Spirit and ambassadors of the acceptance Jesus showed to people rejected by others.
To family and neighbors... We believe that the love that God lends to us is to be shared with those near us, in deepening the relationships between people who share lives together and also to be shared with those far from us, known to us only through TV images and newspaper stories.
Respecting differences and diversities. We believe that God has made us different from each other and we thank God for the chance to become friends with people whose stories are different from our own and with whom we don't always agree. We believe that it is through listening to each other that God leads us to the truth.