When the Board and Advisory Council of our ministry originally met to form this ministry, we avoided the idea of writing a formal "Statement of Faith" for as long as possible. Each of us carried memories of past experiences of working with other groups to help hammer out similar documents. (It's strange how many things upon which Christians can sometimes disagree.)  Some of us actually toyed with the idea of simply handing out bibles along with a sheet of paper that declared, "We believe this!"  However, we eventually decided that such a plan of action would be ill advised as there would inevitably be some people who would misunderstand our intentions and think we were making light of our beliefs. We're not ashamed of our beliefs -  they're just numerous, subject to interpretation, and sometimes diverse. This should not come as a surprise given the fact that God, Himself, says in the scriptures that 1.) His ways are not our ways, 2.) His thought processes are "higher" than ours, 3.) That He fills all of heaven and earth, 4.) That if everything that could be said about Him was written down, the whole earth and skies could not contain the volumes of text, and 5.) That there are times He would like to tell us more but we wouldn't be able to handle it just yet.