Vision Statement

“Together in these villages we offer Christ’s healing grace through our worship and service.”

2 Chronicles 7:14

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Context: God appears to Solomon and talks to him about worship in the newly completed Temple.

Ephesians 2:8,9

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith— and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—

9 not by works, so that no-one can boast.

Context: We are made alive in Christ, who unites us all as one.

“Together in these villages we offer Christ's healing grace through worship and service."

• Together —every single person in the community, as far as possible

• Villages — the people who live in these villages

• Christ's grace — offering His unconditional love through physical, emotional, and psychological healing, to those we don't like as well as those we find it easy to like.

• Worship - individual, flexible worship, from the structured and formal to the freer forms of service which offer a safe, supportive and loving environment. Worship is to be understood as how you live your daily life as well as what goes on in church buildings.

• Service — Helping and supporting others, praying for them, listening to God in seeking His will for the wider community not just the church family.