Westwood has identified five core values. We are on a journey as we integrate these core values and make decisions through that lens. This is a journey because it is always evolving. These core values have been around longer than any of us, and are the places we seek to make real, measurable change. 

 

A church is an ideal place for this work.

• We can take a long view and provide the resources these areas need over time.

• With the unique gifts that individuals bring, we can engage every decade of our population in this work.

• Our beliefs drive and sustain our efforts. As people of faith, we ground this work in our deepest convictions.

 

We are called into spaces to learn and listen, to be allies, witnesses, and advocates; to provide resources and a platform, to name, as the prophets did, a vision for what God wants—to help create a beloved community. At Westwood, we want to live out the idea of Ubuntu: "I am because we are."