Title: Our vision as
1Our vision as a church is to be A people
empowered by Gods love joining God in
renewing all things
2AdorationA life of worship, studyand prayer
thatkeeps us rooted andestablished in
theeverlasting loveof God
32011 Highlights
- Provision of team
- Christmas!
- justworship
4Opportunities ahead
- Depth of encounter in services, prayer
meetings, justworship, Life Groups, 24-7 prayer - Training and developing new musical and technical
volunteers - Audio and visual improvements
5The Challenges
- Provision of more people!
- More of the Spirit!
6BelongingA quality of relationshipin our
caring, supporting,challenging andloving of one
another
72011 Highlights
- Welcoming
- Church Weekend
- Seniors
- Life Group Leaders Training Evenings
- Launch of Life Group Directory
82011 Highlights
- Increase in number of Life Groups proportion of
congregational membership - 40 Days, One Gospel The Big Story Bible
Overview
9Opportunities ahead
- Drawing more seniors into church family deeper
into faith conversations - Increase in proportion of church congregation
engaged in Life Groups - Increase in multiplication planting of Life
Groups
10The Challenges
- The barriers of age
- The pressure of life
- The reality of life coming through death
- Identifying raising up emerging leaders to lead
new expressions of Life Groups
11CommunityA generous outworkingof Gods love for
the sake of others our neighbours, work
colleagues, familiesand friends, whetherclose
to homeor further afield.
122011 Highlights
- People drawn towards God through Alpha Refresh
cafe seniors activities and drop-in - The men's vision To raise an army of men fully
alive, trained and equipped to transform society
and the nations and some excellent men's events
132011 Highlights
- The formalising of Tearfund, ASHA and SOMA as our
global engagement partnerships for the next three
years
14Opportunities ahead
- Further develop outreach opportunities
- Further develop global engagement partnerships
with recently formalised organisations as well as
our link missionaries
15The Challenge
- To hold in our hearts, as we live provocative
lives, those outside the church as well as those
inside it
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172011 Highlights
- Leaders In Training internship programme
- Schools ministry
- Rainbow Club
18Opportunities ahead
- Creating new opportunities to get to know and
support local families - Continue to encourage the kids to grow in their
own personal relationship with God - Training and equipping leaders
19The Challenges
- Raising up new leaders
- Supporting resourcing parents
20A generic youth slide here.
YOUTH MINISTRY
212011 Highlights
- Combined Younger Youth Generator Weekend away
in March emergence of young leaders as a result - Taking 12 members of our 6th form to help on a
beach mission in Perranporth, Cornwall
222011 Highlights
- Youth for Youth event run at St Stephens as
part of the 2012 London Calling initiative with
over 100 youth from 23 different churches
23Opportunities ahead
- Build and invest in young leaders, including
potential mission trips at home and abroad - Build on existing strong links within our
community, increasing ties with local schools and
youth
24Opportunities ahead
- Importance put on our discipling of teenagers and
our youths depth in relationship with God and
each other through pastoring and mentoring
25The Challenges
- Retaining contact with youth in our
- community from non-christian
- backgrounds past the age of 13
- Retaining and obtaining the right team
- and staff to enable our ministry to
- expand into new places and to deepen
- relationships with the youth we
- currently have contact with
26The Challenges
- Providing a safe and constant environment which
is home to our youth where we can build
relationship on a weekly basis and give them a
viable option to socialise in a safe setting - How to best support parents and their
relationships with their teenagers
27OPERATIONS and DEVELOPMENT
282011 Highlights
- Church weekend
- Financial provision
- Increasingly useful and beautiful building
spaces
29Opportunities ahead
- Building Development
- The Prayer Chapel
- Crown Road Offices
- Communications Development
- New website launch
- More communication tools
- Sharing stories!
30Opportunities ahead
- People Development
- Support our governance structures
- Empower ministry teams to aim for their visions
31The Challenges
- Resource the ministry departments future work in
a financially challenging environment - Raise up additional volunteers and train and
support them
32Our vision as a church is to be A people
empowered by Gods love joining God in
renewing all things