Our Vision and Values.

Scriptures from nearly all faith traditions describe a vision of society where God’s plentiful bounty is joyfully shared and enjoyed by all. Today, however, our communities are plagued by poverty, injustice, inequality, and despair. As people of faith, we believe that we are called to seek and to engage others in realizing God’s intended vision for our communities. Fundamental tenets of our faith traditions are working to fight injustice and loving our neighbors as ourselves. We feel compelled to “do justice” and build communities where justice, fairness, and dignity prevail for all.

Our vision for Manatee County is a community that is more like God intended it to be - where our values of love, justice, fairness, equity, and the respect and dignity of every person are lived out every day -as we “win justice” and create the fair and equitable systems needed to realize and sustain this vision over the long haul. We will create a more just, fair, equitable, caring, peaceful, and hopeful Manatee County by building the people power needed to transform systems that have generated inequality and injustice in our community.