Mission
Church is not a place one attends, but a life one leads, and a community to which one belongs. Our community gathers around a common table (Eucharist), engages and common way of life (Rule) and spiritual practices, and participates as a body in God's mission. Our community is rooted in a common story (the Good News of God in Jesus Christ ) whose future (Reign of God) is already present. Our community is linked across time (tradition), yet ever exploring emerging forms of Christian living (innovation) and ways to put eschatology into social practice with transformative goals (incarnate mission). (Abbess Karen Ward)
Being
Church of the Apostles is 'an intentional, sacramental community in the Way of Jesus Christ.'
Purpose
‘To intentionally live within and pattern our lives upon the Pascal Mystery (the life, death and resurrection of Christ)' and to 'love and bless’ - participating (as we are able) in God's mission to bring life, make new, redeem, recreate, reclaim, restore, transform… within our own lives, our community, our neighborhood, the church, and the wider world.
Ongoing apostolate / missional life
To love and bless God: via weekly worship in spirit and truth, ongoing spiritual formation via our Rule of Life and Spiritual Practices.
To love and bless one another, living life together in intentional, relational, sacramental community modeled on God’s divine life within the Trinity.
To love and bless our neighbors both serving (diaconia) and bearing witness (martureo) as ways of giving an account of the hope within us with those who inquire as to why we live and pray this ‘way.’ And to assist and accompany newcomers who are being drawn by the Holy Spirit to re-orient and re-purpose their lives and spiritual expressions towards God through Jesus Christ.
To love and bless the church, sharing our gifts and giftedness with our communions and the wider church for the sake of God’s mission.
To love and bless the world as our 'whole life apostolate,' rooted in the Baptismal Covenant, both as a community, and as individual members.