Company Profile
Company Overview
Exchange Community Church exists to presence the gospel of Jesus Christ in our world. Our mission is to live out this foundational purpose by learning how to presence this gospel of Jesus Christ:
• As a community-led parish church among the urban communities of Winnipeg's Exchange District.
• As a missional Church within our rising culture.
Company History
Our Guiding Values
Prophetic and Priestly
We value the tension created by the dual biblical offices of the prophet and the priest: the prophet, who engages in a perpetual and creative struggle with social constructs that marginalize and exlude; the priest, who engages in stabilizing, comforting and identity-strengthening ministries.
Intimate and Welcoming
We value the tension created by our deep, inner craving for intimacy and our equally compelling desire to see others loved and cared for and appreciated. Strong, authentic community and a welcoming, seeking spirit are reciprocal - to seek for and welcome others is integral to the identity of our community.
Wise and Child-like
We have found that social situations are usually complex and often systemic, and yet we also believe that our faith requires actions despite our limited understanding. We value the tension created by this demand for careful study and the counter-demand to simply act; employing all of our combined knowledge, experiences and abilities to discern more just, loving and liberating expressions of our faith in all its manifestations while purposefully and tangibly living the simplicity of the gospel.
Relevant and Mystical
We value the tension between the mystical work of the Spirit, the transcendent source of God's Word and the relevant, imminent implications of this work and this Word. We rely on the work of the Spirit and the Word of God to transform our minds, hearts and wills as we engage daily in political, social, ecological, relational, an dspiritual decisions and actions.
Liberal and Evangelical
We value the tension created by joining the characteristics of the great traditions of Liberal and Evangelical Christianity - accepting and engaging without censure all forms of knowledge and scholarship with gracious and humble spirits, while maintaining clear convictions regarding the diety of Christ, the authority of scripture, and the trajectory of creation and history.
Diverse and Defined
We value the tension created in embracing both diversity and a clearly defined identity - valuing the perspectives and truths that different cultures and different experiences contribute to our understanding of Jesus Christ, our understanding of scriptures, and to our understanding of creation and history.
Grace and Truth
We value the tension that exists between a realistic acknowledgment of sin and evil in the world and the love and grace of God that bears all things. Accepting that we all are prone to both error and sin, we seek to look directly and unflinchingly upon the human condition with grace, art, humour and truthfulness.