Epicenter Church

Values
[val-yoos]
plural noun
standards, principles, or ways of living in which a group has made considerable emotional investment

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Downtown Summer Series
Themed around the famous 23rd Psalm, Refresh will be a four-part worship series held on Wednesday evenings in downtown DC. 

Core Values for the Epicenter Movement:

We are called to be a people on a journey with God.  We are pilgrims, not settlers.  We wish to remain as fluid as possible in our organizing, to stay flexible and responsive to people and to the changing needs of our community.   We will seek to multiply groups and ministry teams in several parts of town, rather than focusing all of our resources on one locale.  The following Epicenter core values were foundational to the Underground Railroad in the nineteenth century, one of the great social movements in North American history.

Courage

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

Helen Keller

The energy for the Epicenter movement comes from God and from the street.  This is not church sequestered behind stained glass.  The street can be an intimidating, even a scary place.  But this will be the primary venue for Epicenter ministry.  We recognize that what we envision in the renewal of the central city is enormous and God-sized.  Without God’s Spirit and power, we will surely fail.

Cooperation

Epicenter invites diverse people to partner together for a Cause greater than any particular partisan interest.  Together we will pray and work for the healing of our city.  In serving, we are united.  We will challenge everyone to work with a ministry team or community development project, seeking to bless others in our community.

Perseverance

We will hang together and hang tough, accepting the likelihood that we will meet with resistance and some failure (or learning opportunities).  Most importantly, we will persevere in our commitment to prayer.  In our life groups, in our ministry teams, in our worship communities, interaction with God will be central.

Freedom

"I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person, now (that) I was free. There was such a glory over everything. I felt like I was in heaven."

Harriet Tubman, reflecting on the moment that she heard the Emancipation Proclamation

We work and pray that every person in our city might discover the freedom and the wholeness God intends for them.   Freedom over chemical substances, freedom to stand tall with a clear conscience, freedom to bless others, freedom over social injustice and any ideology that holds people back, freedom to read, freedom to discover meaningful life purpose, freedom to use one’s gifts productively, freedom to form diverse and wide-ranging friendships.