Social Lights Mission Statement
We aim to cultivate meaningful friendships and create places for people to come together face to face.
Our Core Beliefs
1. We believe face to face social interactions are the most beneficial for format for deepening interpersonal relationships.
2. We believe it’s valuable for our society to have “third spaces” for people to come together in informal social settings. (A third space is a location for socializing and community building outside of one’s home, the “first place”, and workplace the “second place” )
3. We believe it’s the responsibility of each individual to be friendly and hospitable and take to initiative in creating a better, more connected, world for everyone to live in.
4. We believe individuals ought to create communities with explicit goals and values. Social Lights is an unapologetically Christ-centered community with the goal of bringing glory to God.
About Us
Welcome to Social Lights! We are a group of Generation Z young adults who want to bring people together. Our goal is to create in-person spaces for people of every generation. We believe there are significant and growing challenges to interpersonal connection today. We believe that disconnection, sometimes reaching the level of hostility, is present between many individuals and demographics in our American culture today. Our aim is to cultivate friendships that can bridge these disconnects.
We serve everyone we can but, being young adults ourselves, we have a primary focus on people ages 18-30.
We want to host and promote regular and special events for people to talk and commune face-to-face. We believe that face-to-face is generally a much more effective way for people to enjoy each other’s personalities. We believe that friendships can sharpen us as people, and also provide excellent emotional, intellectual, and mental support.
People of all beliefs are welcome to join us at our events. As Christians we seek to follow Jesus’ command to treat others as we would want to be treated. However, we do not believe friendships and community can be built in a vacuum. We want the space we create and share to be open to all people but we do not shy away from the fact that we are a community aiming to build ourselves around objective biblical morals, traditional family values, and healthy relationships of reasonable accountability and respect. If you don’t agree with some of these values we still welcome you so long as you’re willing to be respectful. We aim to share our love and community with any willing to receive it.
Our commitment to Jesus means we hold God’s word in high esteem. We will not endorse or create spaces that tolerate or encourage blatant degeneracy or irresponsibility.
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