Church of the Crossroads Covenant

Updated by vote of the congregation - January 27, 2019

We strive as a community to share God’s love and embody God’s grace. We aspire to follow the teachings of Jesus as revealed in scripture and to discern the ways God continues to reveal wisdom and truth. We affirm the many pathways to the divine and seek to respect and live in harmony with persons of all faiths and spiritualities. We welcome all persons, including those who differ in age, gender, social and ethnic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, and physical or mental ability. As Hawaii’s first inter-ethnic church, we celebrate our tradition of intentional diversity by being an Open and Affirming* Congregation of the United Church of Christ. We are a Just Peace* church that actively works toward social, economic, and ecological justice in the care of God’s whole creation. We are all members of God’s family, and so we welcome with compassion those who are immigrants and strangers and who come to us fleeing poverty, famine, injustice, or violence. We honor the indigenous host culture of Hawaiʻi and their place in which we live. We are deeply committed to maintaining Aloha as a guiding force for our mission and ministry as we strive to “do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with our God” (Micah 6:8).

*The Open and Affirming Covenant and the Just Peace Church Covenant were both adopted by congregational vote on March 8, 1992