our vision as a church is to be a people empowered by god’s love; joining god in renewing all...
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Our vision asa church is to beA people empoweredby God’s love; joiningGod in renewingall things
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AdorationA life of worship, studyand prayer thatkeeps us rooted andestablished in theeverlasting loveof God
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• Provision of team
• Christmas!
• justworship
2011 Highlights
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• 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
Opportunities ahead
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•Provision of more people! • More of the Spirit!
The Challenges
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BelongingA quality of relationshipin our caring, supporting,challenging andloving of one another
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2011 Highlights
• Welcoming
• Church Weekend
• Seniors
• Life Group Leaders Training Evenings
• Launch of Life Group Directory
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2011 Highlights
• Increase in number of Life Groups & proportion of congregational membership
• 40 Days, One Gospel & The Big Story: Bible Overview
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Opportunities 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
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The 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
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CommunityA generous outworkingof God’s love for the sake of others; our neighbours, work colleagues, familiesand friends, whetherclose to homeor further afield.
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2011 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
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2011 Highlights
• The formalising of Tearfund, ASHA and SOMA as our global engagement partnerships for the next three years
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Opportunities ahead
• Further develop outreach opportunities
• Further develop global engagement partnerships with recently formalised organisations as well as our link missionaries
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The 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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2011 Highlights
• Leaders In Training internship programme
• Schools ministry
• Rainbow Club
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Opportunities 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
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The Challenges
• Raising up new leaders
• Supporting & resourcing parents
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A generic youth slide here.
YOUTH MINISTRY
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2011 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
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• ‘Youth for Youth’ event run at St Stephen’s as part of the 2012 London Calling initiative with over 100 youth from 23 different churches
2011 Highlights
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Opportunities 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
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• Importance put on our discipling of teenagers and our youth’s depth in relationship with God and each other through pastoring and mentoring
Opportunities ahead
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The 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
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• 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
The Challenges
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OPERATIONS
and DEVELOPMENT
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2011 Highlights
• Church weekend
• Financial provision
• Increasingly useful and beautiful building spaces
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Opportunities ahead
• Building Development • ‘The Prayer Chapel’• Crown Road Offices
• Communications Development• New website launch• More communication tools• Sharing stories!
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• People Development• Support our governance structures
• Empower ministry teams to aim for their visions
Opportunities ahead
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The Challenges
• Resource the ministry departments future work in a financially challenging environment
• Raise up additional volunteers and train and support them
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Our vision asa church is to beA people empoweredby God’s love; joiningGod in renewingall things