{"id":53,"date":"2012-02-16T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2012-02-16T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:44:08","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/?page_id=53","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0Vision Statement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ohio Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation promotes, upholds, and defends the Principles and Purposes of the Unitarian Universalist Association.<\/p>\n<p>We seek to create a warm welcoming home for a community of people of diverse beliefs, interests, and experiences, who depend on one another for support, care, friendship, and love.<\/p>\n<p>We stand as a guardian of all that is nobly human:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rationality and reason<\/li>\n<li>Intellect and creativity<\/li>\n<li>Caring and nurturing<\/li>\n<li>Justice and equality<\/li>\n<li>Freedom and responsibility<\/li>\n<li>Idealism and optimism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We seek to cultivate a garden of spiritual growth and enlightenment, to build a temple, a place of worship, where life is celebrated and honored, and where its mysteries are explored.<\/p>\n<p>We seek to provide religious education for people of all ages, and to inspire all to discover as much as each is able, our relation to the Ultimate.<\/p>\n<p>We seek to serve as a fountainhead of social action and outreach in the greater community.<\/p>\n<p>We seek to extend our care, concern, and influence outward, both locally and globally, and to recognize and exercise ministry to a troubled world.<\/p>\n<p>We seek to provide a haven for searching, seeking, questioning minds, for open, generous, giving hearts, and for vital, energetic, growing spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Vision Statement The Ohio Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation promotes, upholds, and defends the Principles and Purposes of the Unitarian Universalist Association. We seek to create a warm welcoming home for a community of people of diverse beliefs, interests, and experiences, who depend on one another for support, care, friendship, and love. We stand as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-about.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ovuuc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}