More about Joy

Mission – Inclusion – Constitution – Annual Report – Council Minutes

Want to know still more about Joy? Here are some of the more or less official documents we have developed to help guide our life together.

Our Vision for Joy

A growing, generous, and hopeful Christian community, working together to connect in a spiritually relevant way with God and our neighbor.

Our Mission at Joy

We gather to be renewed in the joy and love of God through inspiring worship and caring community.
We seek to understand and live by God’s Word.
We serve those in need of God’s healing through Christ, reaching out to our community and world.

Our Core Values

  • Generous
  • Hopeful
  • Supporting
  • Open and safe
  • Connected
  • Life-long living

All Are Welcome at Joy

With open hearts, open minds, and open doors we extend a sincere extravagant welcome to everyone to be a part of our church family at Joy. Understanding that all persons are created, loved, and accepted by God, we embrace all ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities, family structures, life situations, economic circumstances, physical, cognitive and emotional abilities, educational, spiritual and religious backgrounds.

We are committed to being a safe place for all LGBTQIA+ folks.
See more options at www.gaychurch.org

Joy Documents

Constitution

Joy’s Constitution helps to order our life together and is similar to other ELCA congregations.

Annual Report

Every year Joy produces an Annual Report to review what God has done in our midst.

Council Minutes

The Vision Council meets every month to prayerfully lead Joy. Check out the minutes of their hours of service.

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