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UCF helps students who follow Jesus Christ in ways that enable them to commit to a new way of life in community.  If you decide you can do this with UCF, or not, the 9 principle guides can help everyone:

Principle Guides

  • Sharing economic resources with fellow community members and the needy;
  • Hospitality to the stranger;
  • Lament for racial divisions within the church and our communities combined with the active pursuit of a just reconciliation
  • Humble submission to Christ’s body, the Church;
  • Intentional formation in the way of Christ and a Rule of Order (see below);
  • Nurturing common life among members of intentional community;
  • Care for the plot of God’s earth given to us along with support of our local economies;
  • Peacemaking in the midst of violence and conflict resolution within communities along the lines of Matthew 18; and
  • Commitment to a disciplined contemplative life. To learn about how UCF students do this, talk to any UCF leader.

Rule of Order

  • Worship: Participation in UCF’s weekly worship is fundamental.
  • Prayers: Students residents need to commit to pray daily.
  • Scripture: Student residents should read the Bible everyday. Residents need not cover many verses of scripture each day. However, residents need to allow the verses they read to sink deeply into our hearts and become the seeds for amendment of life.
  • Presence: Student residents shall always be hospitable to their neighbors, in their neighborhood, on their campus and at their workplaces.
  • Moderation: Student residents should seek a balance between denial of the world and overindulgence in what the world offers us. Residents also need to be as attentive to these needs of other people as they are to our own; actually, even more.
  • Gifts: Student residents will honor and care for the gift of the earth and its resources, striving for simplicity rather than excessiveness; practice generosity; use spiritual gifts, talents and abilities to serve God within and beyond the living community
  • Service: Student residents will serve God and neighbor out of gratitude for the love of God.
  • Witness: Student residents will resist evil and injustice; will pursue peace with justice; will share the redeeming, healing, creative love of God in word, deed and presence as an invitation to others to experience the transforming love of God.