Our vision as a church is to be A people empowered by God’s love; joining God in renewing all things

Adoration A life of worship, study and prayer that keeps us rooted and established in the everlasting love of God

Provision of team Christmas! justworship 2011 Highlights

Depth of encounter – in services, prayer meetings, justworship, Life Groups, 24-7 prayer… Training and developing new musical and technical volunteers Audio and visual improvements Opportunities ahead

Provision of more people! More of the Spirit! The Challenges

Belonging A quality of relationship in our caring, supporting, challenging and loving of one another

2011 Highlights Welcoming Church Weekend Seniors Life Group Leaders Training Evenings Launch of Life Group Directory

2011 Highlights Increase in number of Life Groups & proportion of congregational membership 40 Days, One Gospel & The Big Story: Bible Overview

Opportunities ahead Drawing more seniors into church family & deeper into faith conversations Increase in proportion of church congregation engaged in Life Groups Increase in multiplication & planting of Life Groups

The Challenges The barriers of age The pressure of life The reality of life coming through death Identifying & raising up emerging leaders to lead new expressions of Life Groups

Community A generous outworking of God’s love for the sake of others; our neighbours, work colleagues, families and friends, whether close to home or further afield.

2011 Highlights People drawn towards God through Alpha; Refresh cafe; seniors’ activities and drop-in The men's vision: ‘To raise an army of men fully alive, trained and equipped to transform society and the nations’ and some excellent men's events

2011 Highlights The formalising of Tearfund, ASHA and SOMA as our global engagement partnerships for the next three years

Opportunities ahead Further develop outreach opportunities Further develop global engagement partnerships with recently formalised organisations as well as our link missionaries

The Challenge To hold in our hearts, as we live provocative lives, those outside the church as well as those inside it

2011 Highlights Leaders In Training internship programme Schools ministry Rainbow Club

Opportunities ahead Creating new opportunities to get to know and support local families Continue to encourage the kids to grow in their own personal relationship with God Training and equipping leaders

The Challenges Raising up new leaders Supporting & resourcing parents

A generic youth slide here. YOUTH MINISTRY

2011 Highlights Combined Younger Youth & Generator Weekend away in March; emergence of young leaders as a result Taking 12 members of our 6 th form to help on a beach mission in Perranporth, Cornwall

‘Youth for Youth’ event run at St Stephen’s as part of the 2012 London Calling initiative with over 100 youth from 23 different churches 2011 Highlights

Opportunities ahead Build and invest in young leaders, including potential mission trips at home and abroad Build on existing strong links within our community, increasing ties with local schools and youth

Importance put on our discipling of teenagers and our youth’s depth in relationship with God and each other through pastoring and mentoring Opportunities ahead

The Challenges Retaining contact with youth in our community from non-christian backgrounds past the age of 13 Retaining and obtaining the right team and staff to enable our ministry to expand into new places and to deepen relationships with the youth we currently have contact with

Providing a safe and constant environment which is ‘home’ to our youth where we can build relationship on a weekly basis and give them a viable option to socialise in a safe setting How to best support parents and their relationships with their teenagers The Challenges

OPERATIONS and DEVELOPMENT

2011 Highlights Church weekend Financial provision Increasingly useful and beautiful building spaces

Opportunities ahead Building Development ‘The Prayer Chapel’ Crown Road Offices Communications Development New website launch More communication tools Sharing stories!

People Development Support our governance structures Empower ministry teams to aim for their visions Opportunities ahead

The Challenges Resource the ministry departments future work in a financially challenging environment Raise up additional volunteers and train and support them

Our vision as a church is to be A people empowered by God’s love; joining God in renewing all things