THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST)
Loch Leven is owned and operated by the Pacific Southwest Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), where all are welcome. Rules for employment, acceptance, and participation in Loch Leven programs and/or facilities rental are the same for everyone without regard to ability, national origin, creed, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, or marital status providing that program requirements are met.
THE VISION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
To be a faithful, growing church, that demonstrates true community, deep Christian spirituality, and a passion for justice. (Micah 6:8)
THE MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
To be and to share the Good News of Jesus Christ, witnessing, loving and serving from our doorsteps “to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8)
Brief history of the DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), while founded on American soil in the early 1800s, is uniquely equipped to live up to its identity that it is a “movement for wholeness in a fragmented world.” The denomination was born in the 1800s and continues to be influenced by its founding ideals of our unity in Christ with openness and diversity in practice and belief.
The Disciples Vision, Mission, Imperative and Covenant statement calls the communion to be a faithful, growing church that demonstrates true community, deep Christian spirituality, and a passion for justice.
The church is identified with the Protestant “mainstream” and is widely involved in social and other concerns. Disciples have supported vigorously world and national programs of education, agricultural assistance, racial reconciliation, care of the developmentally disabled, and aid to victims of war and calamity.
The denomination now counts about 700,000 members in the United States and Canada in about 3,700 congregations.