We are Tracy and Mary Jo Hipps, serving in Birmingham, Alabama.
As facilitator for Mission Birmingham, my responsibilities include:
Coordinate Pastor Prayer Summit
City-wide Prayer events
Network urban and suburban churches and ministries and activities
Coach Pastors and Youth Pastors in Great Commission and Great Commandment ministry.
Our Vision & Mission
To create a home where we will love God and love others. We will create an environment that we can grow in our relationship to God and with others. We want to be a family with a heart for God and others, serve God and others, and give to God and others.
Home- That we will have a home that we can express ourselves and we can discover and be the person God created us to be in the Kingdom. We will express love for God by our love for each other. To build my family up with the values of the Kingdom.
Mission- To love others the way Christ love them. To serve others with the mind and attitudes of Christ.
Family Mission Statement
To be a family that loves God and others in word, deed and action.
Love for God- Home
Prayer is our way of communicating to God
Devotion to God by spending time with him personally
Listen to the Holy Spirit as he leads us.
Learn by asking God for wisdom and seek God with all our hearts
Live with the Grace of God leading our lives.
Serve God with our gifts.
Give God all our lives.
Love for Others- Mission
Love others that are different than us.
Serve others as God leads us.
Be grace Agents to the lost world.
Give back what God has given to us.
Being a believer by modeling to others, both to believers and the lost world.
Personal Mission Statement
To be a bridge-builder that connects and serves my family, the community and the church to the transforming power of Christ by modeling, coaching (discipling) and equipping.
Transformation occurs in the realm of our character. Romans 8:29 (conforming us to the likeness to his Son)
Luke 9:23- If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Galatians 2:20- I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Jeremiah 10:23 – “ I know , O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps
Prov 16:9 – “In his heart a man plans his course; but the Lord determines his steps”
Micah 6:8b - To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God
Our Values
Bridge-builder
Grace
Forgiveness
Servant
Steward
Freedom in Christ
Culture broker
God Chaser
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