How We Live

Gather

We gather to break bread, worship, encourage and equip one another, and build community. Gathering happens over food and coffee, around big dining tables, in parks, church buildings and community centres, and through serving our community.

Grow

We grow as culture-makers, disciples, worshippers, influencers and leaders. Formation and growth occurs through prayer and devotion, worship and working, teaching and conversation, serving and community.

Give

We give of our time, gifts, and resources (out of what God has already given us) for more than ‘Sunday’. We give in an intentional, sustained, practical and strategic way that recognises and celebrates each other’s vocational gifts and passions.

Go

We go into our households, streets, workplaces, communities, and the world.

How We Communicate

Generous Conversations

In our conversations and living we embrace a posture of:

• Humility and Grace
• Love and Faith
• Encouragement and Inclusion
• Conversation and Enquiry
• Collaboration and Unity
• Transparency and Integrity
• Peace and Justice

What We Believe

Statement of Faith

We’re big on what unites us as the body of Christ, rather than divides us.
FOUND is a non-denominational Christian faith community passionate about what Jesus was passionate about – His followers united in love. The Apostle’s Creed and Nicene Creed are the simplest summations of what the Church has believed from the beginning and foundational to Christians of all persuasions – conservative, progressive, Catholic and Protestant alike.
For everything else, let’s talk about it over a meal or coffee.

APOSTLE’S CREED

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, 
Creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried;
 he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, 
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
 and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic and apostolic Church, 
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, 
and the life everlasting.
AMEN.

NICENE CREED

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, 
maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, 
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, 
begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. 
Through him all things were made. 
For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: 
by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
 For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.
 On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. 
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, 
who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. 
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead, 
and the life of the world to come.
AMEN.