Relating - we all need friendship and fellowship of a more intimate nature to be at home in a church. Church is family.

Reaching - Cores are always seeking to embrace others, not to be a closed shop. Cores draw in people from the congregation and where applicable draw in those from the crowd of the unsaved. This is very important

Caring - Cores exercise pastoral care for its members, picking up on the needs of its members, and seek to meet those needs.

Sharing - Cores are a place where iron sharpens iron whether in formal teaching or informal conversation. There is also a sharing of lives and encouraging.

Praying - Cores are a place of prayer, to bring each need before God whether formally or informally.