Tag Archive: VALUES

Values | COLLABORATION

In many ways, Ace in the City has always worked at the intersection of church and community. Having spent so many years providing direct service programming within our neighborhood, we relied heavily on the time, energy and expertise of our...

Values | PRESENCE

Our faith tells us that the physical spaces we inhabit matter. Our presence in our community matters. After all, God “became flesh and moved into the neighborhood.” The incarnation is nothing if not a statement on the necessity of embodied...

Values | CREATIVITY

We are resistant to change. The longer we do anything a certain way, the harder it will be to both explore and enact new ways of being.  Visit many churches today and you’ll notice two dates engraved into brick and...

Values | JUSTICE

Shalom. I’m so drawn to this Hebrew concept that I have the word tattooed on my right forearm: While shalom is often translated as peace, the biblical concept of shalom is so much richer, deeper, and more expansive than that....