Our Vision and Values

 

Our vision is summarised by the phrase:

Rooted in the Father’s love

Growing in the power of the Spirit

Reaching out with the love of Jesus   

 

This is represented by a ‘prophetic picture’ together with a longer statement:

     

As a church we seek to be a loving, worshipping, healing community which is:

Putting down roots deep into the Father’s love

•being established in Him, 

•growing in knowledge of Him, 

•and finding security in Him. 

Growing in the power of the Holy Spirit

•developing in the gifts He gives us,

•bearing the fruit of faithful lives,

• and looking to Him to breathe His life into all that we seek to do. 

Reaching out with the love of Jesus

•planting the hope of the Gospel in the area of Highwoods through acts of service and by sharing His love. 

 

Our logo also speaks ‘prophetically’ of our purpose for being church

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

When we were first planted as a church an important scripture was Isaiah 61:3.

“They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendour.”
As we moved into the Community Centre and then changed our name to St Luke’s another scripture that impacted us was Revelation 22:2
 “The leaves of the trees are for the healing of the nations.”
The oak leaf represents the scriptures above – whilst the cross shows that it is only by the power of the cross of Christ we can live out our vision. We seek to live under the ‘shadow of the cross.’