CONNECTION

We support and uplift each other: genuinely, vulnerably, and authentically.

How we practice this value:

• We are focused on living in faith through our vertical relationship with Him. We prioritize His teachings and guidance over culture and trend. 

• As social creatures, we know that we need to be in fellowship with others. After all, it is our relational bonds that provide some of the greatest feelings of support and protection. We resist inclinations to undertake and undergo challenging feats all on our own.

• We heavily encourage a process of co-creation where we can learn, grow, and teach one another with common understanding that there is no “silver bullet” when it comes to care and wellness. 

• We exercise discernment to honor each other’s processes in recognition that it is all in His timing, not ours. We are accountable in sharing our needs, communicating our boundaries, and being disciplined about our “nos” without going to a place of shame. It is by gentleness of vulnerability, humility, and obedience that we find our greatest strengths. 

• We share a practice of making space to step up, step aside, and step down in order to create an environment framed with the comfort and safety needed for everyone to feel that they can be honest, open, and transparent. 

• We are committed to nurturing each other with balanced portions of radical honesty, empathetic patience, and hopeful encouragement. We operate from a place of “what’s shared here, stays here and what’s learned here, leaves here.” 

• We find fierce acceptance and belonging through shared experience and the relationships we cultivate with each other. We are loved, supported, and deeply appreciated.

• We understand that little space for love can be held when we are making demands from a place of perfectionism.