The document outlines the vision and mission of EBCLA to become a "Faith Village", which is described as a unique social community that provides a picture and preview of God's work in creation. The mission is to train followers of Jesus who embrace biblical reconciliation and missional living. The core values that drive the culture and decision-making are described as Hope, Humility, and Hospitality. Hope is discussed as being rooted in God's love and looking forward to the future blessings God has promised, rather than things that can be seen.

1. VISION

2. OUR VISION
God is forming EBCLA into a Faith Village: a unique social
community whose life together is both a picture and a
preview of what God is doing in and for all of creation.

3. OUR VISION
God is forming EBCLA into a Faith Village: a unique social
community whose life together is both a picture and a
preview of what God is doing in and for all of creation.

4. OUR VISION
God is forming EBCLA into a Faith Village: a unique social
community whose life together is both a picture and a
preview of what God is doing in and for all of creation.

5. VISIONMISSION

6. OUR MISSION
We exist to be and bring Christ’s hope, humility, and hospitality to the
world, and thus our mission must be to train heroic apprentices of Jesus
who clearly embrace and embody biblical reconciliation and missional living.

7. VISIONMISSIONVALUES

8. OUR MISSION & CORE VALUES
We exist to be and bring Christ’s hope, humility, and hospitality to the
world, and thus our mission must be to train heroic apprentices of Jesus
who clearly embrace and embody biblical reconciliation and missional living.

9. Our mission and core values should drive our culture
and should be the foundation for why we do what we
do. Every important decision we make should be
measured against these standards.

10. “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what
your values are.”
Roy Oliver Disney

11. HOPE HUMILITY HOSPITALITY

12. Anne Lamont on “Hope”
“Hope is not about proving
anything. It's about choosing
to believe this one thing, that
love is bigger than any grim,
bleak [bag of manure] anyone
can throw at us.”
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

13. Lamentations 3
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is
everything I will ever need.
So I will put my hope in him.”
25 The Lord is good to those
who put their hope in him.
He is good to those who look
to him.

14. Lamentations 3
24 I say to myself, “The Lord is
everything I will ever need.
So I will put my hope in him.”
25 The Lord is good to those
who put their hope in him.
He is good to those who look
to him.

15. Hope That’s Rooted in God’s Love
EPH 3:17b And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have
power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high
and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—
that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
L O V E O F C H R I S T

16. Our Hope grows as
we become more
and more rooted in
the love of Jesus.
Hope
Humility
Hospitality
LOVE OF CHRIST

17. Romans 8
23 And that’s not all. We have the Holy
Spirit as the promise of future blessing.
But we also groan inside ourselves.
We do this as we look forward to the
time when God adopts us as full
members of his family. Then he will
give us everything he has for us. He
will raise our bodies and give glory to
them. 24 That’s the hope we had
when we were saved. But hope that
can be seen is no hope at all. Who
hopes for what they already have? 25
We hope for what we don’t have yet.
So we are patient as we wait for it.

18. Romans 8
23 And that’s not all. We have the Holy
Spirit as the promise of future blessing.
But we also groan inside ourselves.
We do this as we look forward to the
time when God adopts us as full
members of his family. Then he will
give us everything he has for us. He
will raise our bodies and give glory to
them. 24 That’s the hope we had
when we were saved. But hope that
can be seen is no hope at all. Who
hopes for what they already have? 25
We hope for what we don’t have yet.
So we are patient as we wait for it.

19. now not yet
Our hope can get uprooted

20. That’s why EBCLA matters.
A picture and a preview of what God’s doing in and for creation
An actual experience of God’s merciful, unconditional love > Hope

21. before

22. after

23. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.