Deep relationships start with getting to know one another. We believe the Church is not a building; it is people. So, whether you intentionally searched out ACC:W or you stumbled across our site, we want you to enjoy discovering who we are. On this page, you will find our Vision, as well as our Core Values & Relational Resolves, which help us navigate how to practically live out that vision.
If you are interested in attending a service on Sunday mornings, please feel free to click on the What to Expect On Sundays page to get a taste of what you will find when you come. If you would like to read the story of where we come from and how our mission began, check the Our History page to get a glimpse of our past and our present. However long you spend on our site, just know that you are welcome here.
ACC:W Church Vision
At ACC:W, our vision is to Love God, Love one another, and Love those who don’t know Jesus.
Nothing produces passion in the human heart more than when it encounters God’s love in a tangible way. Our desire is to be God’s tangible love in our city! When all is said and done and we look back on the course of our lives we want to be able to say that we lived with passion for Jesus and his purposes in the earth.
ACC:W Core Values
Values are the internal compass of someone’s life. At ACC:W, our values are:
1. Devotion to Jesus
(Mark 12:30, Matthew 4:4, John 4:23, John 17:3)
2. Making Disciples
(Matthew 28:18-20, Matthew 24:14, 2 Timothy 2:2, Mark 8:34,35, Luke 19:10)
3. Community
(Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 18:19-20)
4. Prayer
(Mark 1:35, Matthew 6:9-11, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-19, James 5:15,16)
5. Supernatural Lifestyle
(Matthew 10:7-8; John 5:19, 20; 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11; 1 Corinthians 14:1; Isaiah 58:5-10)
We believe that Jesus’ values could easily be recognized by what he spent the majority of his time teaching and doing. His devotion and intimacy with the Father is what drove his passion for reaching those who were far from God, making them into whole-hearted disciples who relied on the Word of God and the Holy Spirit (just as Jesus did), gathering them into close-knit, life-on-life community, teaching them to bring heaven to earth through prayer and surrendering to God through a lifestyle of fasting and generous giving. We want these to be our internal compass.
ACC:W Relational Resolves
Since the entire vision of the Kingdom is a relational calling: to love God and love others, our relational attitudes towards one another are just as crucial as the core values we spend the majority of our time talking about and doing. Through studying the Gospels and the Epistles, and asking the question, “Which relational attitudes did Jesus seem to affirm the most and attracted his attention the most?” we crafted 5 “relational resolves.”
If the values are what we devote ourselves to doing, the resolves are how we relationally go about “the doing.” Our aim is to become a culture of:
1. Hunger
(Matthew 5:6; 1 Corinthians 14:1; Luke 17:5-6; Romans 4:20-21)
2. Humility
(Numbers 12:3; Matthew 18:3-5; Psalm 131:1-2; James 4:6; Proverbs 9:8)
3. Grace
(Colossians 4:6; Titus 2:11-14; 2 Corinthians 12:9-10; Ephesians 2:4-10)
4. Honor
(Ephesians 6:1-3; Proverbs 15:33; Matthew 10:41)
5. Excellence
(1 Corinthians 12:31-13:3; Ephesians 5:1, 15; 1 Corinthians 14:12; 2 Corinthians 8:7)