Mission, Vision, and Values of Holy Cross

Our Mission

The mission of Holy Cross Episcopal Church is to worship, share, and exercise the servant ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ in the rich tradition of the Anglican Communion. We focus our servanthood ministry on the less fortunate and disenfranchised within the local and greater community. We place special emphasis on children, the elderly, the men and women of our Armed Forces and their families, and the incarcerated.

Our Vision

Our vision is to be known as an open and welcoming church serving the spiritual and secular needs of the community.

Our Values

Our values are grounded in our love of Jesus Christ as expressed in servanthood, stewardship, diversity, community, and courageous compassion.

• Share our faith by attracting new members and increasing attendance at our worship services.
• Serve our community by increasing our Social Justice Ministry programs.
• Foster our parish community by increasing the frequency and participation in Servanthood events.
• Recruit additional parishioners to participate in our worship service ministries.
• Continue our path to financial independence from the Diocese.

• Recruit 1-3 new members for the Sunday music group.
• Recruit 2-4 new members for the worship group (acolytes, chalice bearers, readers and ushers).
• Recruit 2-4 new members for the worship support ministries (altar guild and flower guild).

• Conduct six Parents' Night Out events.
• Promote Holy Cross and our events with email marketing and advertisements in The Reader and other media 26 times.
• Feature the Holy Cross booth at two Chamber of Commerce events.
• Conduct three concerts for the community.
• Increase average Sunday attendance (ASA) by 10%.
• Enroll 6 new members.

• Have a friendship dinner kick-off event by the end of February. Have three get-togethers of each group, reshuffle names, and have three more.
• Have at least four fellowship gatherings, once each quarter.
• Participate in at least one Diocesan-wide family event.

• Purchase a children's education curriculum to have in place once there is a demand for such a program.
• Recruit 1-2 members of the congregation to become Sunday School teachers.
• Conduct nine meetings of the Faith Book Club.
• Plan 1-2 gatherings for the congregation to view and discuss films or speakers of spiritual or social significance.

• Deliver over 200 boxes of necessities (Birthday Bags) to Meals on Wheels.
• Deliver healthy food snacks to the Wounded Warrior Battalion 20 times during the year.
• Provide monetary, emotional, and spiritual support to one incarcerated woman through her release in 2011.
• Deliver 50 or more Easter baskets to families of deployed Marines.
• Initiate two new social justice projects.

• Increase pledge units from 31 to 35.
• Maintain our Mission Share Pledge to the Diocese at 20%.
• Reduce our request for Diocesan Investment from $30,000 to $25,000.

• Recruit one to two (1-2) members respectively for each of the following three areas: the Sunday music group, worship group (acolytes, chalice bearers, readers and ushers,) worship support ministries (altar guild, flower guild and greeters).
• Celebrate two (2) Sunday Eucharists using worship forms from Episcopal and Anglican historical liturgies, one in each half of the year.
• By year's end, resume one (1) mid-week Healing Eucharist, open to the greater community, and to meet congregational needs.
• Increase the number of Eucharistic Visitors by two (2) to meet the needs of ill and homebound members.

• Develop a formalized greeting program by Easter Day that includes the following: recruitment of five (5) parishioners to be greeters (scheduled at least one per Sunday) and a written checklist of tasks to be done on the day of a newcomer's visit to Holy Cross.
• Conduct three (3) free concerts for the greater community in the first half of 2012.
• Host a booth in the May Carlsbad Community Faire.

• Hold four (4) fellowship gatherings; one per quarter.
• In the first half of 2012, host one event in Bressi Ranch to highlight our presence.
• Participate in one Diocesan-wide family event.

• Sponsor one community-wide program of relevance for families in the first half of 2012.
• Offer an Inquirer's (Confirmation) class for adults before the Bishop's annual 2012 visit.
• Host two (2) gatherings, one that addresses the needs and concerns of the aged and one that addresses the concerns of those who care for them.

• Deliver a total of 200 WeCare bags to North County Meals-on-Wheels.
• Deliver healthy food snacks to the Camp Pendleton Wounded Warriors Battalion 20 times throughout the year.
• Assist Episcopal Refugee Network tutoring program 30 times, and collect non-food donations for refugees twice during the year (February and July).
• Collect 300 pounds of food for the North County Food Bank in each of two drives (August and November).
• Hold a Toy Drive in December for Solutions for Change.

• Add three (3) new Pledge Units.
• Maintain our Mission Share Pledge to the Diocese at 20% of Net Disposable Income.
• Reduce our request for Diocesan Investment from $25,000 to $20,000.
• Within six months of moving to our new location, conduct a fixed assets inventory.