Moving with God
Transforming Communities

Mission:

To transform the community, we will

• Share our faith in Jesus as its hope and unity now and into the future;
• Recognise all who are appropriately gifted, theologically equipped and practically skilled for the variety of roles the Church requires;
• Build on strengths in community service, social justice and reconciliation of all peoples;
• Strengthen faith, spiritual and leadership development;
• Be generous in spirit and with God's gifts;
• Promote responsibility for the caring of God's earth;
• Support both rural and urban communities by developing new approaches to church;
• Celebrate and praise God in inclusive and alive worship that is relevant and accessible to the community;
• Recognise that missional communities may not require church-owned facilities as the regular model of church;
• Strategically organise property assets to serve the mission of the church in the best way, including locating for the best regional contact with all members of the community;
• Combining resources, training, activities and community service, and for the development of faith communities and small groups away from regional centres rather than in church buildings;
• Strategic sales of existing real estate in favour of funding new and varied ministries;
• Work together with the community and other denominations and faiths;
• Acknowledge traditional ownership of the land by Aboriginal people and walk in fellowship and partnership with them; Engage in continued theological reflection and formal mission research; and
• Need more streamlined permission-giving processes empowering local missionaries, faith communities and congregations to participate in mission.

Guiding values

We value God's love and:

• Our commitment to Jesus Christ;
• The leading of the Holy Spirit;
• The inspiration of the Scriptures;
• The challenge of the Gospel;
• That all people are made in the image of God; and
• God's creation.