My Mission Statement

Now it’s time to bring it all together, the three things I’ve been focusing on throughout the past few posts. When I look at my core values, my spiritual gifts, and my past experiences, where do they overlap? If I can find the place where they all meet, I can start to determine the vision God has for me.

Well, let’s quickly review.

The core values that I came up with were compassion, mercy, encouragement, empathy, love, grace, generosity, serving, community, and relationships. Thanks to my own reflections and a couple of online quizzes, the spiritual gifts I appear to have are mercy, exhortation (encouragement), serving/helping, giving, hospitality, and faith. And through my past experiences, I’ve learned firsthand about going through very difficult circumstances, working hard, and coming out a better person thanks to the love, support, and encouragement of others.

The overlap seems so obvious to me that it seems silly to even write it. My experiences combined with my core values and spiritual gifts position me perfectly to feel compassion and empathy for people who are struggling, to exhibit mercy, grace, and love toward them, to develop relationships with them, and to help them by encouraging and giving.

So to take it a step farther- what is my mission statement? Craig Groeschel says, “A mission statement is simply a one-sentence version of God’s Chazown for your life expressed in words that greatly motivate you to pursue if for Him. When you write yours, simply say what action you most want to take or pursue with your life, and what consequence you most want to accomplish with that action.” Mine is more than one sentence, but here it is:

I want to live out love and mercy toward people who are hurting and struggling, encouraging and helping them in the ways they need it most, in order to help them through their circumstances and into a better place. At the same time I want them to be able to see and feel God’s love, mercy, and grace through me, and be drawn closer to him. And I want to encourage and empower others to do the same.