Onward in 2016

Clear purpose Strategy Achieving goals Maintain and manage resources Engage and involve members Adjust to the changes in the world Living to see God’s Kingdom come Living by faith in the abundance of God’s provision The Body of Christ – sharing gifted ministry. Transfiguration – transformed into God’s image Kingdom of God Good Organisation

Diocesan Strategic Priorities 1.Authentic Disciples 2.Re-imagining Church 3.Transforming Society 4.Generous Stewards

St Peter’s Strategic Priorities Authentic Disciples To equip people as followers of Christ, fulfilling their God-given potential as they exercise their gifting and calling with servant hearts.

St Peter’s Strategic Priorities Authentic Disciples “…we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” 2 Cor. 3:18

St Peter’s Strategic Priorities Authentic Disciples Regular teaching programmes linked to HGs Foundation courses – Alpha; Freedom in Christ… Leadership training Mentoring Growing in worship Prayer Stream

We will become more a community and less an organisation – that is a network of relationships expressing God's irresistible grace to people of all ages whilst intentionally seeking to reach the younger generations that are proportionally less represented in the church. Re-imagining the Church

Boundaries Management systems Power structures Conform to system Relationships Leadership Shared involvement Offering giftedness Community Organisation More a Community… Re-imagining the Church

Predefined project “Add on” project Attend on our terms Respond together Missional heart Serving others CommunityProgramme Missional Communities Re-imagining the Church

1.Healthy Church – engaging with the world 2.Healthy Family – Body of Christ 3.Going across cultural boundaries 4.DNA of Church Reaching Younger Generations Re-imagining the Church

Identify & develop missional communities We will listen more to the wider community Opportunities to “belong” will increase St Peter’s will grow more outward facing Opportunity for mission will increase Re-imagining the Church Outcomes

Agents of Social Transformation We will increase our presence & influence in Yateley community through the development of “Kingdom Enterprise” – social enterprise with Godly values, e.g. social justice, holiness, humility, mercy (Micah 6:8)

Agents of Social Transformation ““You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.”” Matthew 5:13-14

Agents of Social Transformation Ethical – caring for the environment Providing clothing and household items A retail destination Volunteering & employment opportunities A meeting place Discoveries Charity Shop

Agents of Social Transformation Community hub A meeting place – combating isolation A destination for leisure & friendship Volunteering & employment opportunities A platform for other support services Coffee Shop

Agents of Social Transformation Cranford Park CE Primary School Other local Primary Schools (including Yateley Manor) & Assembly Team Yateley School Children, young people & family work Vision 4 Youth Children & Young People

Agents of Social Transformation Yateley Town Council Co-op? Partnership Work

Agents of Social Transformation St Peter’s will be a hub of community activity Community served with increased commerce Less isolation; more involvement; more influence Community services grow and better resourced Outcomes

Good Stewards of God’s Grace We will express our unity with the worldwide Church of God, sharing our resources and God-given ministry with those of a different culture, nationality and situation.

Good Stewards of God’s Grace Starts in Yateley St Peter’s vision & strategy Core values and culture Shared ministry – homegroups; youth; children Congregational distinctives Relationship with group, deanery & diocese Unity with World-wide Church

Good Stewards of God’s Grace Relationships with mission partners Personal engagement Asset based support Mutual growth Sharing ministry and other resources Sharing resources and ministry cross- culturally

Good Stewards of God’s Grace Explore / build relationships with a partner Short term mission experiences Greater appreciation of world-wide Church A growing passion for mission Outcomes