Westwood has identified five core values. We are on a journey as we integrate these core values and make decisions through our core values lens. This as a journey because we are not "there yet"—and, truth be told, always evolving. These core values have been around longer than any of us, but these are places where 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 over time that these areas need.

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

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

 

We are called into these 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."