CADA Mission & Vision

Our mission is to witness and proclaim the Word of God to people in our local communities. We aspire to be the “salt of the earth and light of the world.”

Our vision is to be a covenanted community of men, women and children who follow Christian orthodox teachings and strive to grow in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ by supporting one another in a charismatic and ecumenical way of life as a member of The Sword of the Spirit. We will live in clusters to effectively support each other.

The name CADA was originally coined from the Filipino word 'barkada', which means a person's close friends. It was introduced as our mailing list name on 1998, and it stood for Christians in Ann Arbor and Detroit Area. Now, we have redefined its meaning to truly identify ourselves as to who we are, to better describe what we are doing and what our mission is all about, and that is, to become Christ's Ardent Disciples in Action.

As of August 2011, CADA is officially a non-profit (501-c-3) organization. Our community is steadily growing mostly composed of Filipinos, both married and singles alike. The children in our community are growing in numbers and age as well!