Our Mission
Our mission is to glorify God in Seattle by making disciples of Jesus Christ who passionately love God, one another and our neighbors.
We will accomplish our mission by:
- Intentionally calling people into relationship with Jesus Christ;
- Faithfully growing disciples into spiritual maturity;
- Strategically sending member-ministers to witness in our city and world.
Our Vision
We see Seattle First Presbyterian Church becoming a community of disciples who passionately love God, one another and our neighbors.
Through these loving relationships, the Holy Spirit will transform our lives, community, city and world.
As one body united in Jesus Christ, this transforming community will reflect the social, economic, cultural, generational, and geographical diversity of the center city and greater Seattle.
A colorful mosaic of people will prayerfully and creatively shape and reshape the worship and work of the church in theologically faithful and culturally relevant ways.
All members will be missionaries, equipped for ministries for which God has gifted us, and sent to share the Gospel in word and action both locally and globally, including unreached peoples.
Guided by the Spirit, SFPC members and ministries will meet needs unique to the urban environment by engaging people, structures and systems for the sake of Christ. The congregation will gather in the marketplace of a multi-purpose facility uniquely designed to foster community and service to the surrounding neighborhoods.
SFPC will seek to become a model for other center-city churches, one that equips others for urban ministry for the 21st century.
Our Values
- Reformed Theology: We value learning and teaching theology that is Biblical, Evangelical, and Reformed.
- Cultural Relevance: We value “reformed and always reforming” approaches to worship and witness that are relevant to our urban context and surrounding cultures.
- Corporate Worship: We value gathering together weekly in Spirit-inspired corporate worship that employs an eclectic mix of language and form to glorify God.
- Caring Community: We value creating a covenant community in which participants deeply know, love and care for one another in mutually accountable relationships.
- Faithful Discipleship: We value practicing Christian spiritual disciplines through which God transforms us and equips us to follow Christ in every area of our life.
- Unified Diversity: We value developing a unified body that consists of, and ministers to, the diversity of people who live and work in the city center and greater Seattle.
- Member Ministry: We value supporting ministries that emerge from, and are sustained by, the God-given passions and gifts of members of the congregation.
- Equipping Leaders: We value developing leaders and staff whose role is to cultivate and coach member-led ministries.
- Numerical Growth: We value numerical growth and church planting, believing that a healthy church is a growing church, and a growing church is a healthy church.
- Unreached Peoples: We value expanding our ministry from Seattle, the U.S.A. and beyond, and prioritizing unreached peoples in our global missions.
- Joyful Stewardship: We value cultivating joyful and generous stewardship of our time, talent and treasure, including the tithe to God of our gross income.
- Financial Accountability: We value building an operating budget upon tithes and offerings, and investing those resources in ministries that fulfill the vision.
