We believe that Christian care should be foundational to the church community and that love and compassion are the hallmarks of true Christian work in the pastoral context. For this reason, we have placed the caring community amongst our four core values seeking to show that both care and community is of the highest priority in the life of the church.

As part of our caring philosophy we have defined that our Christian care should be offered on the following basis:

We believe that practical Christian care is a demonstration of God’s eternal love. As such, we recognise that the church is called to the ministry of caring.

We will care for people regardless of background, belief, race, age etc. We believe that every person should be given an equal opportunity to experience God’s love through the church.

We should have no ulterior motive through our care. We believe that God’s love is unconditional and that in light of this our care should be offered without conditions.

We will endeavour to create opportunities to care and where appropriate put into place the necessary structures to enable the caring process.

We recognise that our care should operate both inside and outside the Christian community. Therefore we will endeavour to see our care demonstrated to the wider community through both our words and deeds.

Worship lies at the heart of the Christian community, providing the opportunity for people to bring adoration and thanksgiving to the God they love. The basis of our worship is Trinitarian in that we acknowledge through our worship adoration to Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We believe that through such worship we are responding to the injunction of Jesus who said, "a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth" (John 4:23-24).

We believe that all our worship should be God centred.

We believe that worship should be accessible to all and as such, we endeavour to use a creative and contemporary approach with variety in our programme.

We aim to make our worship both inspirational and uplifting. Our desire is that people should both enjoy and participate in worship.
We recognise that all Christians are called to worship and that the local church should provide the platform for such worship.

We will continue to explore our development in worship. In this way we seek to remain progressive in our approach. To help achieve this goal, investment in our worship programme will remain a top priority.

Jesus commanded his church to "go and make disciples of all nations." And for this reason we see the disciple based life as central to our church vision. We also recognise discipleship is a process that we as individuals enter into and that the church encourages and nurtures of which Christ likeness is the goal. Therefore we encourage each individual to pursue their relationship with God in order that they might follow after him as disciples.

Through discipleship we believe the principles of the Bible should become a regular part of our daily lives. However, we also recognise that as disciples we all grow at different rates and therefore encourage people to discover their own growth rate within the church’s life. In this way we can provide a challenging environment within a caring community that steers away from the pressures of Christian condemnation. Through the gospel the Christian is called to a life of freedom and we believe discipleship is the context in which that freedom should be exercised.

We believe Christian discipleship is the pursuit of Christ likeness in our attitudes, actions and lifestyles.

We believe Christian discipleship is based in a growing understanding of God as our heavenly Father.

We believe Christian discipleship is achieved through an openness to the Spirit led life.

We believe discipleship is based in relationship. We will therefore encourage the development of small group discipleship and mentoring.

We believe the fruit of discipleship will be seen through positive life goals, strong relationships, contributing citizens, conscientious employer/employees, honourable stewardship, balanced families and healthy churches.

Amongst the final words of Jesus was the command to "go into the whole world and preach the gospel". As church we believe that we should have both local and global mission as part of our overall strategy. The church exists primarily the purpose of mission, which is why we have been mandated to take the good news of the gospel to the world. We will seek to do this through the development of an effective mission’s programme that targets both our own locality and city and opens our eyes to the wider issue of Christian Mission abroad.

We believe the Great Commission should be the guiding commission in the life of our local church.

We aim to develop a church that is missionary rather than pastorally based. Our emphasis will always be on looking out.

We are committed to declaring the Christian gospel through sign, word and deed. Our spiritual message must have a practical outcome.

We believe we should enable people to connect with Christianity in a way that is both accessible and purposeful to everyday life.

We believe every person should have the opportunity to hear the Christian story in a way they can understand. Therefore we will endeavour to communicate our message with creativity in a relevant and meaningful way.