We trust God to produce lasting fruit in our obedience and faithful service.
We create a space for encounters
We look to facilitate Holy Spirit encounters for each other and are always looking for new opportunities to reach more people with the good news of Jesus.
Radical hospitality is for everyone we interact with on this faith journey at Alpha, where a stranger can become a friend
We welcome diversity and encourage bridging church tradition and cultural differences/divides. We model unity by ensuring all our gatherings represent as much of the church as possible.
We are spirit led and data informed.
We seek the Lord through prayer and fasting to ensure our strategies are God inspired and directed.
We trust God for the impossible
We are trusting that God will provide all the resources we need to do the God size vision He gives and give Him the glory He deserves.
We build for multiplication not addition.
Every engagement is meant to bless not just the one but the ones they will serve. Every stakeholder with alpha we consider a friend that links arms with us to multiple sharing of the good news of Jesus what they have learnt through alpha.
We influence and are influenced by the church.
We serve the church to make sharing the good news of Jesus normal, fun and accessible in their context.
We design from our customer back. Therefore we strategically plan based on direct feedback from our stakeholders.
We are in this together, working in tandem with organizations in Canada doing similar work to Alpha.
We collaborate with all our stakeholders to ensure we serve one another in our common mission.
We work at the speed of trust. If trust is broken we work quickly to build it back up.
We believe the best about each other, do the small things consistently and hold one another accountable for excellence.
We build, measure and learn.
We celebrate teams and individuals taking risks and try to make us more impactful and forward thinking, understanding that failure is part of the process. We regularly hypothesize to test the status quo or new ideas through this continual learning process. We recognize that times are changing, and are willing to adapt and be teachable.
We are always learning.
We are active listeners. Listening well to those who have gone before us and those that are coming up behind us.
Leading ourselves through personal development is an expectation of being a leader at AC. We all lead and follow.
We work to bring out the best in our team.
We speak truth in love to help people grow and improve. We give radical candor and welcome, useful feedback.
Collaboration and communication are key.
We serve together and are never above serving (whether around the office, or in the field) each other or our stakeholders, and seek to help others even before asked.
We expect our staff members to be able to have a healthy personal rhythm.
Self-governance about your working time and hours is expected, take time off and ask for help when you need to.
We steward the responsibility of our own spiritual development and do so through regular church involvement, and our private faith life.