We want to be a church that shows deep compassion for the spiritually and materially hungry and homeless and has a real ability to meet their needs. We want to be a church that is diverse in leadership and membership, representative of Oakland, and a church that empowers people to live out their divine calling. And we try to do it all with honesty and integrity. We need more than good intentions to do that! We need a deeper hope than our own best efforts. But the good news is that God is at work in the world today, and we have hope that when we follow Jesus a bit more closely, anything is possible.