Creating a Family Mission Statement

Hatch Family Mission Statement

It's important to have a clear vision of what you are trying to accomplish so when life gets messy you can refocus on what is MOST important to you and sometimes just cut back all the busy that seems to infiltrate our lives to the essential things that will help you reach that goal.

When my husband and I set out to write our first mission statement we were pregnant with our first and decided to:

1. List the key values we wanted to teach our son. 
2. Narrow the list to the MOST important values and carefully chose words that would incorporate more than one concept that was important to us. 
3. We then listed these values and expanded on why they are important to us then looked at this
   explanation of values.
4. Finally came up with a more concise goal that would be easy to remember and post on our walls. 

Then a few years later after attending a homeschooling conference I was inspired to create a vision statement as a "end goal" for what I was trying to accomplish through homeschooling which is really just an extension of our family life. By then we had decided that our guiding scripture was "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" Philippians 4:13 and that ideally when we are done we are going to have sons that are ambitious and creative to reach their goals yet at their core display Christian virtues. We hope to encourage these innate values in our boys through cultivating their gifts instead of coercing them into ours.

As time goes on our mission/vision for our family evolves to be more clear/less wordy but over the last 4 years I've been surprised by how little has changed with the substance. I think this is because we really took the time to dig deep, know ourselves, and pray for God's hand in our lives when we created it. I hope you have just as much inspiration and success as you decide what is important for your family too and find the process/ set up of our mission (what we work on day to day) and vision (how we see our family's future) statements helpful.

Vision Statement:

Cultivating Drive and Virtue

Mission Statement:

We live with Intention, seeking wisdom, showing love, and expressing gratitude.

Explanation of values:

Hatch Family Explanation of Values

Motto:

“I can do hard things”