Practices that Members Covenant to Live Into

  • Partaking of eucharist (communion)
  • Faithful participation in weekly gatherings and times of communal prayer
  • Faithful service to the church and to the community in a specific, God-gifted role
  • Faithful participation in discipling relationships (such as in small groups)
  • Getting to know, and faithfully praying for, one’s immediate neighbors
  • Faithfully assisting in VC-hosted community meals
  • Faithful participation in decision making, including the selection of leaders
  • Faithfully praying for VC and its leaders
  • Faithfully giving at least 5% of one’s finances to VC
  • Faithfully observing weekly times of Sabbath rest