Our Core MVUU Values
In gratitude, we commit ourselves to:
- Open-hearted engagement
- Courageous love
- Inspiring transformation
Our Mission
MVUU: Building an open-hearted, welcoming community where we work together in covenant to transform ourselves and our world through love.
Our MVUU Ends (What we hope to create within, among, and beyond our walls):
The people of MVUU:
- Nurture our Unitarian Universalist faith identity, teach it to our children, and live it courageously in the world.
- Create space and support to develop authentic connections to each other’s lives.
- Give and receive care, to and from one another.
- Risk vulnerability to create covenantal relationships across all kinds of difference, within the church and beyond its walls.
- Bring more love and justice to the world, in covenant with impacted people.
- Develop life-sustaining spiritual practices.
Our Covenant
With love as our guide, we covenant to:
- Welcome the stranger.
- Encourage and support one another.
- Honor our diversity.
- Ask questions with an open mind and heart.
- Listen deeply and seek understanding.
- Speak directly and compassionately when we have differences.
- Trust one another and remain in community while differences are resolved.
