At All Saints Church, we understand that the Church is called to be a sign and sacrament of the Kingdom of God where Christ is King. We are to focus on worship of God and personal spiritual growth but it is also essential that we be looking outward into our local communities and the world for ways to love and serve God by loving and serving our neighbors. We affirm that:

We are a part of a Kingdom-work of God as an AMiA congregation and we earnestly seek to live into that identity. In Christ's description of the Kingdom, it is a place where the last are first and the first are last; the full are hungry and the hungry are full; the mourning are comforted and the comfortable are mourning. This kingdom is not unlike the relationship we find ourselves in as a part of the Anglican Mission - the West under the spiritual authority of Africa. We have a great deal to learn from our brothers and sisters in Rwanda in terms of ministry, mission, and community.

We are to be good neighbors.  In keeping the Greatest Commandment, we acknowledge we are to love God with heart, soul, and mind, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.  (Mat 10:25-28)

We are created to be in relationships and friendships.  “Neighboring” requires relationship.  In Luke 10:25-37, Christ tells the parable of a “Good Samaritan” who dares to get his hands dirty in actual relationship by directly helping a man in need.  Not only does he give of his time and treasure to help the man, but he does so directly, at a personal level, and in a way that commits himself to returning to the man—the essence of relationship. 

We are to pay special attention to the wounded and marginalized.  When asked “who is my neighbor?” in Luke 10:25, Jesus replied with the story of a man ignored, penniless, beaten, and bleeding.  God has a special heart for those isolated, oppressed, and bleeding from the wounds inflicted by a fallen world—the poor, the developmentally disabled, the broken, the marginalized.  Where God’s heart lies, so shall ours.

We are to encourage and equip every member to love and serve the people of our community and world in word and deed, in the context of a life of grace and godliness. The impact of genuine spiritual transformation is genuine Christian influence in our community and world. We value our community and the people who live in it, and we pray for our community and its leaders. We seek to serve our community by meeting real needs in the lives of people, living as people of grace, mercy, justice and truth.

We are to live as people of integrity and hope who clearly and winsomely communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We seek to engage our culture thoughtfully and confidently, believing that Christ and His truth are utterly relevant to the issues and struggles of our community.

We are to operate in Kingdom-partnerships. We partner actively with other like-minded churches and institutions to serve our community, and we partner actively with mission agencies, missionaries and indigenous ministers to take the gospel across cultures and around the world. In addition, we are part of an Anglican Mission church-planting network that works together to multiply and expand the work of Christ in our region, state and nation.