Mission Statement

Mission

1. To devise, develop and maintain effective strategies for reaching every person in our local community with the Good News that God loves and cares about them.
2. To see people continually being added to the church family from the conversion of non-Christians, the re-commitment of Christians whose faith has lapsed and Christians who move into the local community.
3. To have an ongoing commitment to and resourcing of overseas mission.
4. To have a high positive profile in the local community being known for our welcome, care, and love of God.
5. To be a community that values and expresses a wide-ranging cultural diversity as we follow Jesus Christ.
6. To serve the community in modelling, demonstrating and working for the reconciliation of all people.
7. To engage actively with the processes and structures of our local community e.g. education, business, politics and support agencies.
8. To campaign on behalf of those needing justice locally, nationally and internationally.

Discipleship

1. To see each member  live their daily life as a spiritual offering before God through faith in Jesus Christ being “built together as living stones into a spiritual house.” (1 Peter 2 v 5)
2. To see those who are members of Greenford Baptist Church being actively committed and involved in church life.
3. To see every member regularly meeting with others specifically for sharing, prayer and reading the Bible.
4. To see each member not just being a believer but being discipled and discipling others including the living of “clean lives” and the process of “the renewal of our minds”.
5. To see each member becoming increasingly aware of their personal gifting, and growing in serving God by using their gifts.
6. To see personal prayer, Bible study and listening to God as a priority for every member.
7. To see every member being loved and cared for, and in turn loving and caring for other members of the church. We see the caring of members for each other as the primary source of pastoral care within Greenford Baptist Church. However we also aim to see provided an additional source of pastoral care particularly to those who are in special need.
8. To see everyone who is a part of Greenford Baptist Church giving money to the church as directed by God.

Roles

1. The aim of the Leadership is to serve Greenford Baptist Church by seeing her discipled for the work of Christian service, to be built up until we all come together to unity in our faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God, to become mature people reaching to the very height of Christ’s full stature.  (Ephesians 4: 12-13)
2. The Leadership Team’s responsibility is to oversee the life of Greenford Baptist Church especially for vision and strategy. This includes identifying, supporting and encouraging specialised ministries that enhance and aid the delivery of our vision.
3. The Staff Team has responsibility for owning and implementing the vision, developing the strategy agreed by the Leadership Team and seeing them woven into the life of the church.
4. The Ministry Network will provide mutual support, share information, be a sounding board and give feedback to the Leadership and Staff Teams.
5. The Church Premises Management Team will oversee the maintenance and usage of the church building and grounds on behalf of the Leadership Team.

Communication

1. To see effective communication both within our church family and from our church family to those in the surrounding community, utilising a range of different media.

Community and Church Links

1. To continue working with local, national and international churches, groups and initiatives.
2. To be a resource to other churches including mission, encouragement, teaching, worship and in modelling multi-cultural community.

Our Church Building

1. Buildings to be inviting and safe for all who enter lawfully.
2. To see our buildings being used effectively.

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