Our Covenant, Written By Us

What Are We? — Part 3

If our mission statement is borrowed, our covenant is homegrown.

A while back, our LVL2 members — the folks who’ve stepped up to help build this place, not just attend it — sat down and wrote out three covenant statements. These aren’t doctrine handed down from the wider United Methodist Church. They’re our attempt to say, in our own words, what we’re actually committing to do here, in action, not just in theory.

We covenant to affirm, include, and empower nerds, geeks, and gamers into a diverse and creative community of belonging, grounded in mutual respect and shared vulnerability.

We covenant to explore hope and faith by fostering fun, learning, and meaningful connections, providing a space for those seeking purpose and belonging.

We covenant to embrace inclusivity as we explore the intersection of faith, creativity, and curiosity, reflecting God’s love for all people.

Every word in those three lines was chosen on purpose.

Some of them might land as provocative. Some might land as comforting. Some might be exactly what you needed to hear today. That’s intentional too — we wrote these to hold weight for a community that’s genuinely diverse in belief, background, and where people are in their own faith journey, if they’re on one at all.

You’ll find these posted in our Discord, and you can opt into them there if you’d like. But you don’t have to react to a message to live inside what they’re pointing at.

If you’ve ever felt more like yourself in our server than you expected to, welcomed further into curiosity about faith than you thought a church would let you get away with — that’s the covenant doing its quiet work.

Next up: the three words that started all of this back in 2020, and why we’re still saying them six years later.