Bath Deanery Everyone a disciple Everyone a disciple-maker

THE STORY SO FAR

DEANERY SYNOD

CONTEXT

CHANGE

CHANGE

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Peter Hill – Archdeacon of Nottingham 30 th October 2011 Im involved in the deployment strategy for the diocese and looking at where we put vicars, clergy and mission leaders in the diocese for 2020, and just for your prayers, at the moment there are roughly 150 clergy in the diocese… but by 2020, unless there is a serious miracle of ordination and vocation, there will only be 100 available to us. Thats a third less. And so, unless something changes we will be placing lay people in charge of parishes before too long.

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

Effie Clare Ludwell

NOT ALL CHANGE IS BAD

OPPORTUNITY TO RETHINK MINISTRY

TO A PROCESS

VISION Our desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and transformed by Gods loving rule.

DISCIPLESHIP Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. JESUS

DISCIPLE Learner Listener Believer Trainee Student Follower

APPRENTICE His disciples were with him in order to become like him

THE KINGDOM OF GOD Our desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and transformed by Gods loving rule.

RE-THINKING

WHERE DO YOU DRINK COFFEE?

COFFEE HOUSE

CAFES

SHOPPING

STATIONS

CAR PARKS

WORK

HOME

FRIENDS

FAMILY

CHURCH

ITS ABOUT THE COFFEE ITS NOT ABOUT THE CAFE

ITS ABOUT DISCIPLESHIP ITS NOT ABOUT THE CHURCH

We must be a transforming and transformative church that looks outwards to the community and to the world in which we are set. The mission of God is not only a higher calling than the maintenance of the church. It is the very reason for which God brought the church into being. Practically speaking we need to stop starting with the church and focus instead on Gods mission.

And this mission belongs not just to your parish priest, but to all of you who have been marked with the sign of the cross at your baptism. We are all called as members of the Body of Christ, priest and people alike, to be a ministering congregation to the communities in which we are set.

I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH YOU GO AND MAKE DISCIPLES

EVERYONE A DISCIPLE-MAKER EVERYONE A DISCIPLE

EVERYWHERE A DISCIPLESHIP INVITATION EVERY CHURCH A DISCIPLESHIP CENTRE EVERY CHURCH A DISCIPLESHIP COMMUNITY

PUTTING DISCIPLESHIP IN THE CENTRE

Growing Leaders Deepening Partnerships Developing Chaplaincy

DEEP ROOTS

ONGOING REVIEW

A ROAD MAP

PUTTING DISCIPLESHIP IN THE CENTRE

ITS ALL ABOUT THE COFFEE