Vision, Mission, and Values
Vision: That work, workers, and workplaces throughout the world are transformed to reflect God’s good design for work.
Mission: We create and disseminate high quality, biblically-based, and accessible materials on work, so that all Christians can be equipped and committed for work as God intends.
Values
Our work is founded on Scripture, applied to work, in accordance with sound theology. The primary source and final and guiding authority for our theology of work is Scripture, rooted in the entire Bible, rather than only in isolated texts. All our materials are intended to apply ultimately to non-church-related work, workers, and workplaces. We especially want our materials to be useful to pastors, teachers, theologians, and other leaders in the church as they pursue their callings to equip Christians for the work of ministry to which God has called them. We avoid getting tangled up in controversies related to church-related work and sectarian divisions. We seek to employ sound theological processes and to avoid speculative or idiosyncratic exegesis, interpretation or application.
We intend our materials to be meaningful to people across the full spectrum of orthodox/historic Christian faith. We seek to incorporate perspectives from across this spectrum as much as we are able. We affirm the orthodox/historic Christian faith as represented, for example, in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds.
We believe that all people are made in the image of God. The Bible teaches that all people are made in the image of God, and that God’s grace is extended to all peoples without division or gradation. Because of this, we strive to create materials that help people work for the benefit of all people without exception. And we strive to include the voices and perspectives of believers of every nationality, race, sex, age, language, and socioeconomic status. In practice, this means paying special attention to incorporating people who experience marginalization and injustice around the world, and we recognize that this requires self-examination, humility, and intentional change on the part of our Project.
We believe that all work has value and dignity. The Bible portrays work as an essential activity of human beings. It depicts God at work in an astonishing variety of tasks, and it conveys God’s invitation and command for people to work. Accordingly, we cherish the inherent value and dignity of all kinds of work, workers and workplaces. At the same time, we recognize the ways in which sinful humans can turn those expressions into work that destroys or diminishes people and/or the rest of creation. We strive to produce materials that contribute to justice and redemption across the breadth of occupations, roles, functions, organizations, settings, economies, cultures, and all the other circumstances of work and that apply both to paid and unpaid work.
We are committed to continuous improvement and a culture of learning. We recognize that even as our work progresses, we must constantly revise our materials, broaden our reach, improve our processes, and acknowledge our failings. Our confidence lies not in what we produce, nor in our capabilities or intentions, but only in God’s grace and promise to lead us towards growth in Christ.
