Vision for Airedale
Our mission is to live the Gospel life and to share this with all those we come into contact with.
- Deepen and develop a love and knowledge of God across our communities
- Grow a church by making new disciples, a generation younger than the present over all age profile of our current community. Daring to be different and moving away from our traditional way of doing things:
- Encourage and develop lay leadership in all its forms and empower people to share their gifts across the circuit.
- Have an input within the wider local community (outreach), building on initiatives already in place and bringing a Christian perspective to issues around social, economic and ecological both local and national.
The above will be achieved by the following means:
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- Continue and develop the spiritual growth of the community of Christ in the Airedale circuit, building on what is here already.
- Devise new initiatives to improve the spiritual well-being of all members new and old
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- A variety of forms of worship from reflective to ZOOM and beyond!!
- Open to celebrating God in different settings, not just within a church building
- Developing an inter-generational community so that we can exchange a variety of ideas and experiences so that we can enrich each other.
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- Continue to offer lay-lead pastoral support
- Work in ministry with lay preachers and worship leaders
- Work with other Christians ecumenically across a range of initiatives.
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- Develop an increasing awareness of social justice issues across the communities of the Airedale Circuit
- Working with already establish community groups to bring a faith perspective