Category: Planning
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Being in place until the door opens and the path appears
Being in place until the door opens and the path appears By The Ven. Valerie Hoare My husband Doug and I started putting intentional plans in place for our retirement at least five years before the actual predicted date, but it became ‘real’ on my 69th birthday in July last year. One of our children…
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Learning about your local community
How well does your church know the local community? Do you know who lives in your community and what they do? The local church exists specifically to be part of God’s mission in the world. To love and serve its local community to the best of its ability. In order to do this well, it…
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What is the point of mission planning?
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, defined mission as, “finding out what God is doing and joining in”. We are reminded by this quote that the church exists only to be part of God’s mission in the world and that God goes before us in whatever missional activities we undertake. Every local church therefore has…