Future Vision
AREAS WE ARE PRAYERFULLY AND FAITHFULLY PRESSING INTO:
We are committed to pressing into the core values that have been a centre point in our sense of mission, evangelism and community building over many years.
Jesus is Central: We continue to focus on the many ways that mentoring and coaching can be continually refreshed to inspire new generations of leaders focused on the transformative Way of Christ. Practical mission, pastoral responsiveness, justice, equity and a multi-generational respect and model of inclusiveness are imbedded in our culture.
People are vital: Our forward vision embraces a multifaceted approach to engaging, encouraging, equipping and empower people to fulfill what God has placed in them to be. Mental health, refugee assistance, local schools, feeding the marginalized, creating networks of open hospitality, emphasizing an inclusive culture and discovering new ways of ‘blessing’ our neighbourhoods are all at the forefront of our unfolding purpose.
Gift oriented: We remain committed to establishing pathways for identifying, encouraging, nurturing and releasing the gifts that God has planted in peoples lives. Our experiments in mission, community work and established profile in ministry mentoring all speak to the reality of this intention. We are committed to extending the ways in which personal transformation, enrichment and service are amplified.
Although we are constantly challenged by restrictions of our building space we have taken on board an ethos of 'One House Many Rooms’ and are consequently using community space beyond outs own buildings and have begun to network and articulate a vision for a series of church plant ‘experiments’. A strawberry plant is probably our best expression of our emerging model. A core mission centre and worshipping spiritual community initiating and joining conversations of emergent mission, offering imagination and resources.
An update to our Church's Constitution
We are a dynamic church and continue to grow in our desire to create a responsive, engaging and empowering model of congregational life. To this a Working Group was established by the Eldership to review our Governance Structures. This team has developed a new governance model for the church to review from which a new constitution has been developed.
Both of these are available for you to review, as we move to the next level of consultation with the Congregation over the coming months leading to an opportunity for the Church to endorse these at a congregational meeting later in the year. Feel free to look over these and send input…
Review the proposed Governance Model
Review the proposed Constitution
In the end we are all on a journey of faith. God has a lot more in store for us and so it's good to have a healthy sense of dissatisfaction, to look forward to a future where we continue to be encouraged and challenged to honour God more, to take God's word more seriously and to strive for the best for the sake of God's Kingdom.