Photos Courtesy of Clarus Photography People Pictured wearing New Love In, Up, Out Tee Design
This past Sunday we unveiled our new “identity statement” at House of Joy. It was an exciting time.
Basically, back in January the staff went away for a few days and really spent hours answering this question: Who are we?
We didn’t invent some slogan to live up to. We didn’t create something out of thin air to try and project onto our people.
We thought and prayed, and laughed and debated and came together on an identity statement that reflected who we already are and what is important to us in ministry at HOJ.
Keith & Cortni: Worship Band Members
Love IN. Love Up. Love OUT.
Love in: We take care of each other. We meet in each others’ homes. We protect and nurture our own.
Love up: We love God with everything that we’ve got, heart, strength, soul, body, and mind. We teach others to do the same.
Love out: We love others as ourselves. We reach outside of our walls. We are community impacters, locally and globally.
Josh: Student Coordinator @ HOJ
It was a great day, and the kickoff of a new series.
The series was titled “From the Stroller to the Hog” – it was basically a series about growing up spiritually. Kind of the kickoff of our Love In process. We talked about how we start off in the stroller being pushed around and taken care of. Then we move to the tricycle and learn to move around a bit on our own. Then we hit the mountain bike and then we hit the Harley (hog). A neat four phase progression about growing through the stages of spiritual infancy to spiritually maturing.
We had intended to have the pastor riding the harley into our theater but alas, the doorway wasn’t big enough into the actual theater room where we meet. So we parked it right outside in the hallway as you go into the theater.
The Harley sitting at the entrance to our theater room. The Light coming in from the left is an exit to the outside of the theater. The theater room is actually right around to the right of the hog.
Though it wasn’t as loud and probably didn’t have the stick with you factor as riding it in, it was definitely a great visual to have it sitting in the entrance.
