Our Vision

I am about to do a new thing: now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
– Isaiah 43:19
We are excited to imagine what comes next! To read more about the journey with our vision, click on the links below:
- How One Church Tackled Its Community’s Affordable Housing Crisis March 2019
- One Church Takes on Its Community’s Affordable Housing Crisis
- What’s next for churches who sell their property? November 2018
- Nation takes note as D.C.-area churches create affordable housing October 4, 2018
- “This Church Sold Its Land For $8.5 Million, Then Bought A Chunk Back To Build A Park” Washington Post, July 27, 2017
- With Affordable Housing On The Way, Arlington Churchgoers Say Goodbye
- Arlington congregation holds last worship service before church’s demolition
- One Church Many Homes
- ‘The church is not the building. It is our faith and our people.’
As a way of continually expanding our vision of welcome and hospitality, Arlington Presbyterian is a More Light congregation, a designation that a congregation takes within the PCUSA to work for the full participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the life, ministry, and witness of the Church and society.
The vision of More Light Presbyterian’s is this:
Following the risen Christ, and seeking to make the Church a true community of hospitality, the mission of More Light Presbyterians is to work for the full participation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in the life, ministry and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and in society.