Our Mission Statement

Harbor Covenant Church exists to invite and equip people to become devoted, growing followers of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, who actively live out their faith in relationship with others.

God's mission in this world

God loves us, yet we spend a lot of energy resisting that love. God is continually inviting us to own up to the truth that our 21st century suburban life in the Pacific Northwest is built around self-protection. The evidence is clear when we are willing to look:

We design our lives to fill every minute with activity.

We are caught in the drive to acquire and consume.

We create lives of isolation from God and others.

Let's name it for what it is: sin. But God offers a different kind of life -- eternal life in relationship with Jesus Christ, which unites us to God and to the people of God. Once our lives were defined by the narrow boundaries of our own efforts. Now, by grace, we are defined by the unfolding, epic revelation of God in and through us.

God's call to us

There is a rhythm of growing and going in the life of the followers of Christ -- the rhythm of being formed and transformed inside and of then reaching out beyond ourselves. Biblical language for this is found in the command to love God and the commission to love others. We are becoming like Christ and are serving with Christ.

We can draw on the best of the concepts of monastery and mission agency. We are committed to our Christian spiritual formation, but we are not a monastery in the old world sense of isolation. We are committed to equipping and encouraging everyone to be engaged in ministry as God has called and gifted, but we are not a mission agency in the sense that we are sending all our people to foreign countries. We are growing in Christ and serving with Christ.

We desire to be faithful to God's calling. Therefore we commit ourselves to move deeper in Christ and further in mission.