Passionate Worship seeks to spiritually feed those who participate in worship and encourages other avenues for those who do not participate in more formal worship to experience the presence of His spirit. Passionate Worship seeks to glorify God through praise that can be experienced through music, drama and dance. Participants are spiritually fed through the spoken word of God and a message that carries with them through the week ahead.

Worship describes those times we gather deliberately seeking to encounter God in Christ. God uses worship to transform lives, heal wounded souls, renew hope, shape decisions, provoke change, inspire compassion, and bind people to one another. The word passionate expresses an intense desire, an ardent spirit, strong feelings, and the sense of heightened importance. Congregations who practice Passionate Worship offer their utmost and highest; they expect worship to be the most important hour of the week.

Through the personal practice of Passionate Worship, we learn to love God in return. Followers of Christ develop patterns of listening to God, allowing God to shape our hearts and minds through prayer, personal devotion, and community worship. We love God.

Risk Taking Mission extends Christ’s hands to His people in Williamsburg, the Virginia Conference, and the world, through the use of our hands. Activities are varied but tend to focus around homelessness and hunger, children and youth, and those that are often forgotten by the secular world (mental illness, poor, victims of disaster.) Volunteering time to support these ministries is the hallmark of this ministry.

Mission refers to the projects, efforts and work people do to make a positive difference in the lives of others for the purposes of Christ, whether or not they will ever become part of the community of faith. Risk Taking pushes us out of our comfort zone, stretching us beyond service to people we already know, exposing us to people, situations, and needs that we would never ordinarily encounter apart from our deliberate intention to serve Christ. Congregations who practice Risk Taking Mission offer endless opportunities for people to make a difference in the lives of others through service projects, volunteer opportunities and mission initiatives.

The personal practice of Risk Taking Mission involves offering ourselves in purposefully service to others in need, even at significant personal cost and inconvenience to our own lives. We offer our gifts and abilities and passions to God. We serve.