Our Values

A Biblical Focus
• Our passion is to focus our people on the timeless and authoritative Word of God and to provide opportunities to understand and apply its truth.
• We desire a church where people are transformed by the Bible and recognize that it is relevant to the needs of all people at all times.
• We will strive to provide comprehensive and clear preaching and teaching so that we can align all our decisions and ministries with the Bible.

An Outward Focus
• Our passion is that people come to know and follow Jesus. So we will consistently seek to address the physical and spiritual needs of those beyond our walls.
• We desire growth in the Kingdom of God and our church, thus we will intentionally pursue ministries that engage our community, city, country and world.
• We will strive to include each person at Calvary in active outreach helping them realize that the church does not solely exist for its own benefit.

A Worship Focus
• Our passion is to be people who consistently give praise to God in an atmosphere of joyful celebration of God’s goodness to us.
• We desire our worship to be Christ-centred and relevant to the diverse generations and styles of our people and society.
• We will strive to have worship services that will help our people meet with God and learn from God and we will equip our people for personal and small group worship.

A Community of Love
• Our passion is to be a community where people have a genuine sense of belonging, where people are actively loving each other in response to Christ’s love and are governed by a balance of grace and truth.
• We desire to be a community that intentionally welcomes people without reference to economic status, race, gender or age; we value diversity.
• We will strive to treat all people with respect and therefore will build bridges to people and seek to tear down stereotypes. Recognizing that life-change happens best within small groupings of people, we will become a congregation of congregations; groups will be our primary structure where the body-life of our church is expressed, and we will also be a community where other churches can begin.

A Serving Community
• Our passion is for all Calvary people to be actively serving using their gifts and talents in Christian ministry.
• We desire to be a community where teams of people actively serve together recognizing that maturing in our ministry skills is as important as the task in view.
• We will strive to make the primary role of paid staff that of providing leadership by equipping people for ministry.

A Community of Godliness
• Our passion is to be a people who seek the mind of Christ and integrate it into our daily lives and character without resorting to legalism or manipulation.
• We desire to be a community where the Lordship of Christ and the ministry of the Holy Spirit are priorities and thus we lay aside personal agenda and focus on living by faith.
• We will strive to be prayer dependant as we create an atmosphere of grace which will be expressed in our worship, speech and actions to one another.

A Culturally-relevant Community
• Our passion is to follow the example of our Lord Jesus in pursuing creativity, innovation and excellence that produces cultural relevance.
• We desire to have programs that are culture-sensitive while not being culture-driven so as to be both relevant and biblically pure.
• We will strive to create new programs and alter existing programs to fit the new and evolving conditions of a rapidly changing world.