Our vision as

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Our vision as a church is to be A people
empowered by Gods love joining God in
renewing all things
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AdorationA life of worship, studyand prayer
thatkeeps us rooted andestablished in
theeverlasting loveof God
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2011 Highlights

• Provision of team
• Christmas!
• justworship

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Opportunities 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

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The Challenges

• Provision of more people!
• More of the Spirit!

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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 Gods 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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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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2011 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

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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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Opportunities ahead

• Importance put on our discipling of teenagers and
  our youths depth in relationship with God and
  each other through pastoring and mentoring

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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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The 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

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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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Opportunities ahead

• People Development
• Support our governance structures
• Empower ministry teams to aim for their visions

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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 as a church is to be A people
empowered by Gods love joining God in
renewing all things