The other weekend, those of us at Love Covers got together to have a corporate business meeting; one of those necessary moments in life. We started off with an exercise of each individual writing what we saw as our desires and expectations for our lives and for the ministry of Love Covers; a picture of what we saw for right now and for the future.[@more@] Then we put them together to form our ministry’s mission statement. Having a mission statement helps to focus your purpose, your values and some of the ways you want to put them into practice, into a focused way of expressing and relating them to others. It’s a good way for you to put into actual words what you may have in your heart. And it’s a good way to be reminded from time to time of the direction you are headed.
With a little input from family members, what we really ended up with was a mission statement for the heart of all our families and not just for business. Well, you know, this is “family business”! — living out, day to day, the work that Jesus is doing in each of us. To that end, we would like to share our vision with you:
Love Covers Mission Statement
Adopted February 25, 2006
It is the express mission of Love Covers to proclaim the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit show forth the reality of the love that God has for each person of this multi-cultural, multi-generational earth that He has created. To be willing to minister to each one, by God’s love without prejudice and partiality. To reach the lost, encourage the saints, and to see the prodigal brought back into fellowship with the family. To do so by fostering and utilizing in every capacity without fear, the spiritual, physical and practical gift that God has placed in each of us. Some of the ways, but not limited to, are the maintaining of an inspirational online magazine, publish writings, teachings and music, facilitate evangelistic meetings, conferences, street ministry and missions.
By all, in all, and through all, the means previously stated…The mission of Love Covers is the furtherance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every nation, and tongue. To establish and perfect His image, His character and purpose, in fullness, in the world-wide body of Christ; to reconcile the sinner to the Father, to edify the body by the application of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, to comfort one another and awaken the sinner with the anticipation of His return. We covenant to fulfill this calling by our eternal abiding in Him, and He in us through personal relationship. By the preaching and teaching of the Word of God; the action of obedient love by walking in the character and gifting of the resurrection power of the Holy Ghost; the forgiveness of sins, by Jesus’ blood; the healing of the sick; the casting out of demons, and the express love for the family of God.
