BMC Vision Statement

To Form Community:

• By embracing our Anabaptist heritage
• By forging an inclusive organization and environment
• By reaching out and inviting in those who share similar concerns, and by building alliances for the years ahead
• By providing a graced safe place of caring, support and healing for all persons; and by affirming our sexuality, our diversity, and our humanity
• By remembering and celebrating those who with courage and conviction have gone before us

To Nurture Our Spirituality:

• By validating our present experiences
• By being open to our own authentic faith/spiritual journeys,  and accepting the strengths and values of our spiritual heritage
• By claiming our spiritual giftedness
• By respecting the right of opinion and faithfulness of all persons, without denying our own beliefs

To Be Prophetic:

• By advocating issues of justice on behalf of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, being in dialogue with the larger denominational community,  and by collaborating with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender groups of other denominations
• By acknowledging the connection between heterosexism and social justice issues such as racism, sexism and classism
• By reclaiming the power that is ours and that we have, in the past, given to our denominations
• By envisioning and living out Shalom