The Krista Foundation lives out this identity through:

● Accompaniment – walking together in solidarity that practices mutuality and interdependence;
promoting and exercising constructive, sustainable service ethics within service placement, workplace, and community; walking with Colleagues during their service, through transition and into a life of
service leadership.

● Adaptive Leadership - practicing and promoting creative, collaborative and mutually empowering
decision-making, direction setting, and vision casting within the workplace and community.

● Intercultural Competence - exercising racial and cultural inclusion in personal and professional
practices; incorporating the gifts and contributions of a diversity of persons, capacities, approaches for
the creation and benefit of a community.

● Joy Dance – recognizing hope in the midst of struggle and suffering, expecting that new life, joy and
resilience grow from life’s most difficult challenges.

● Making the Global-Local Connection - recognizing, nurturing and strengthening constructive
relationships between local communities and their global impact and engagement.

● Mentoring Community - investing in future leaders by recognizing and leveraging peer and
intergenerational wisdom and experience.

● Christian & Spiritual Values and Motivation – growing one's own faith identity by experiencing the
diversity of Christian traditions while providing a safe space for expressing and learning respectfully
from others.

● Bridge Crossing amidst Difference - in an increasingly polarized society, equip leaders with the
adaptive and intercultural skills to bridge differences with integrity, respect, and innovation.