Moving with God
Transforming Communities
Courageous Inclusive Generous
Mission:
To transform the community, we will
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Share our faith in Jesus as its hope and unity now and into the future;
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Recognise all who are appropriately gifted, theologically equipped and practically skilled for the variety of roles the Church requires;
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Build on strengths in community service, social justice and reconciliation of all peoples;
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Strengthen faith, spiritual and leadership development;
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Be generous in spirit and with God's gifts;
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Promote responsibility for the caring of God's earth;
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Support both rural and urban communities by developing new approaches to church;
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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;
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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;
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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;
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Strategic sales of existing real estate in favour of funding new and varied ministries;
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Work together with the community and other denominations and faiths;
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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
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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:
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Our commitment to Jesus Christ;
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The leading of the Holy Spirit;
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The inspiration of the Scriptures;
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The challenge of the Gospel;
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That all people are made in the image of God; and
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God's creation.