RUF Vision & Goals

Vision Statement: As a ministry of Christ’s church to the campus, we seek to be a community…

• That is embraced and equipped by the beauty and power of God’s grace…
• That responds by embracing and equipping others as followers of Christ who…   

Grow as Christ-like lovers of God and others…

• This leads to a love of personal holiness grown through a lifestyle of repentance and faith…
• This leads to a love of the Bible, prayer, and community worship…

Grow as servants of God and others in a multi-racial and cross campus community…

• This leads to live, love, and labor together in a loving & sacrificial service to others…
• This leads to authentic relationships that cross racial and campus barriers..
• This leads to an easily-entered caring community…

Grow as ambassadors of God’s grace to our friends, campuses, and the world…

• This leads to so valuing our friends that we lovingly live and proclaim the gospel of grace  to them…
• This leads to personal involvement in world missions…

Grow as citizens of the Kingdom of God by living out a kingdom view in every area of our lives, cultures, and world…

• This leads to new Kingdom thinking, goals, and passions for our lives…
• This leads to actively consider our classroom learning in light of God’s Word…

Our Hope: We want to be people Embraced and Equipped by God’s grace so that we may embrace and equip others...

• Christ’s community of disciples giving love and worship to God from His world…
• Christ’s community of grace and truth within the world…
• Christ’s ambassadors of grace and truth to the world…
• Christ’s kingdom representatives transforming His world….

Specific Goals for 05-06

Growth in Grace
That we would see more of the Majestic Grace of King Jesus that would lead us to pursue…

• His Word- passionately
• His praise- publicly in testimony
• His service- willingly & sacrificially to one another and the world…
• His blessing- prayerfully alone and together

Fellowship & Service

• Genuine relationships intentionally developed through living together, serving together, and repenting together… (Eph 5:1-2)
• Sinners & Outsiders graciously welcomed from all backgrounds and campuses…

Evangelism & Missions

• Our love for friends expressed through regular spiritual conversation…
• Our love for missions deepened by hearing of God’s work in Ukraine…

Biblical World & Life View
We will pursue living in the Kingdom of God by…

• Pursuing open informal discussion of living in the kingdom.
• Pursuing regular reflection on current events in light of kingdom living.
• Pursuing personal and sacrificial involvement in the lives of fellow students, Providence, and the world.