| What does "A Christ-Centered Quaker Community of Ministers" mean? |
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We are Christ-centered, rooted in biblical Christianity and acknowledging Jesus as the true head of our community. We are a Quaker community, identifying with the Friends heritage of discipleship, equality, simplicity, peace, social concern, and decision-making by prayerful corporate discernment. We are part of Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, in turn part of Evangelical Friends International. We are a community of ministers; all of us have our own voices, gifts and ministries in the church or in the wider community. Our pastors encourage the spiritual gifts of all of us, and seek to make those gifts active in our worship services and the work of the church. Through our life together in meetings for worship and business, in our committees and task groups, and in informal times together we try to help each other live in relationship with God and in the ethical consequences of that relationship. |

