Values Relating to the Relationship of our Life Together

Bethlehem adopted these values in 1995 as a part of its mission and vision:

• Pursuing increasingly visible, authentic, practical ways of loving each other.
• Having an eager openness to new people and the avoidance of cliquishness.
• Building lasting friendships that strengthen our faith.
• Encouraging the freedom to relax and enjoy each other and God's world in casual ways.
• Emphasizing the importance of small groups for building caring, faith-sustaining relationships.
• Spiritually caring for all our people through the spiritual shepherding of elders and deaconal care.
• Equipping parents for bringing children up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• Having a spiritually dynamic youth ministry that equips teenagers for courageous Christianity.
• Capturing the hearts and minds of college students with a biblical vision of God.
• Honoring and caring for the senior members of our congregation.
• Being a place where single people can flourish with each other and in families.
• Proclaiming the beautiful vision of how God designed men and women to complement each other.
• Building strong marriages that model the relationship between Christ and the Church.
• Providing biblical counseling for persons, marriages, and families in distress.
• Committing ourselves, as members of Bethlehem, to live according to the Church Covenant.