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  • Where is your vision for the church?

    Where is your vision for the church?

    I am the youngest child in my family. I have two older brothers and a sister and there is a five to ten year gap between them and me. When I was little, on the odd occasion my parents went out, they left my siblings in charge of themselves, of the house and of me.…

  • What is the point of mission planning?

    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…