In
response to
our mission and vision we will welcome disabled persons into our
homes with warm hospitality and love; a love that fosters trust and
security, enabling them to make it their home in body and spirit.
We will strive
to give disabled persons a state of permanency in order to alleviate
their feelings of fear and rejection; to see and to lead them with
dignity to a realization of their own gifts.
We strive to
build a Community that reflects and nurtures each member’s individual
spirituality; one that recognizes and respects all beliefs and creates
an environment in which all can live in harmony.
Further, we will
work toward being a community that is open to service to the larger
community and one that openly shares itself and its gifts.
We, and those
who come to assist us, are called to enter into authentic
relationships with disabled persons and to concern ourselves with
learning how to lead them, through these relationships, to inner
healing.
We are willing
to allow ourselves to be led to an awareness of our own brokenness and
become a community of forgiveness.
Assistants
coming to Anderson Woods should expect and understand that they are
welcome members of our community and that their personal goals are
important to us. One of those goals should be to experience community
life with a level of maturity that accepts the joys of community
equally with the pain and responsibility of living closely with
disabled persons. They are to realize that it is a time of total
dedication to those disabled members and that it is through that
dedication that their own personal growth and goals can be reached.
Each of us,
realizing our roll, then to perform with a joyful heart, those daily
acts that bind our lives in harmony; to offer ourselves to be called
to do those very ordinary things with extraordinary love, for it is in
this love that true community flowers. It is a love that flows from
the heart of God.
