Vision
We have a vision of communities where everybody can reach their God-given potential, free from injustice and insecurity.
We exist to help people overcome insecurities such as homelessness, hunger, addiction and poor mental health. These insecurities are often caused by injustices such as insufficient housing, limited access to food, poor employment, discrimination and abuse.
Every individual person is unique. By offering help to enable people to overcome insecurity and challenging the root-cause injustices, people are then free to reach their God-given potential.
Our strategic picture illustrates our mission – the things inHope contributes to creating this vision.
Values
- Everything we do is motivated by God’s love.
- Everybody is of equal value and made in God’s image.
- Our service provision is available to all no matter what their race, religion, gender, orientation or condition.
- Human beings cannot be reduced to numbers or outcomes.
- We are a vehicle through which God’s church in Bristol can effectively serve the poor.
- We believe God has called the Church in Bristol to provide the human and financial resources needed for our ongoing ministry.
- Service providers and service users all need a safe and supportive community to belong to and within which to personally develop.
- We believe in a culture of affirmation and encouragement to enable us to become a healthy self-sustaining community.
- God’s power and human resolve can bring transformation of mind, body, spirit and relationships.
- Each person has a God given purpose for their lives and the potential to change so as to align with that purpose.
- Personal independence and empowerment are better than creating and maintaining dependency.
- God is able to provide for all our needs.
- We seek to provide opportunity for people to explore and/or deepen their relationship with God and the Christian Faith.
- We seek to daily prayerfully ask God what he wants us to do, and for the courage to do it.
- We are aiming to work to a high professional standard in every aspect of our work.
- We seek to provide transparency and accountability in all we do.
- We are open to funding from all sources, so long as they do not compromise our Christian ethos and identity or working practice and values.
- We seek financial stability through sensible planning.
- We believe in the importance of rest and time with God, personally and corporately.
