In every part of the diocese, our priorities are to grow disciples WIDER in every community, connecting with YOUNGER generations, growing DEEPER roots of faith.
WE AIM TO
Welcome new disciples
Telling the story of Jesus and inviting people to join us in the journey of faith is the core mission of every local church across our diocese. Through the power of the God’s Spirit, we want to invite people of all ages and backgrounds to make a choice to follow Jesus every day. Our hope is to be a diocese where every Christian and each local church can share our compelling vision and join our plan of Growing Disciples -Wider, Younger and Deeper. Over the coming years we want to welcome 7000 more.
Equip younger leaders to serve God in our churches and society
In 2016 our diocese established the Younger Leadership College to develop new and imaginative ways to support churches in growing younger Christian leaders, including mission to over 20,000 of our students in our 73 church schools and academies, as well as our work in universities and colleges. Our ambition is to enable and equip 1000 new younger leaders to help drive our mission to reach more younger people. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.
Grow new Worshipping Communities
We are always thankful for all the congregations who worship across our existing churches, as well as our local partnerships with other denominations. But to reach many more people, we need to establish new worshipping communities equipped to welcome and nurture faith in culturally sensitive ways in varied settings to our present ministry.
Enable and inspire larger Resource Churches to 'give themselves away'
We are already focused on supporting our work with Children and Young People through our ReBuild programme, but there’s more to do. Our Resource Churches will, in time, support the training and equipping of future leaders for all forms of ministry, support nurture courses for all stages for discipleship, and help to plant and graft new worshipping communities. Many of our smaller churches will also foster the culture and instincts from within their communities to become a Resource Church, working in partnership with other local churches, or across a benefice. If you’d like to find out how your church or faith community could be part of this, please get in touch.
Serve as One Church
By contending for the gospel in every community and sphere of public life, we seek to develop meaningful and collaborative partnerships with groups from other faiths, communities, and civic organisations.
We seek to achieve our vision through a shared sense of joining together in the transforming mission of God, discerning and enabling missional leaders, pioneering discipleship of young people, creating a culture of wellbeing and most importantly learning to live daily in God’s presence through prayer and the study of scripture.
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