St. Andrew's Church, Jersey

_This document contains information for you to keep, about the plans and aspirations for our Church Family here at St Andrews

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We are a family that endeavours to learn together, to encourage and love one another and to pray and worship as one. We would like to see our church grow and each member  build a relationship with our Father so closely that other people can see the grace and love of God through us. Our dreams as children of God are to see more people come to Christ and live in Him with the passion we have, courageously bringing this passion into the community.

Much of this was taken from the statement the youth created at the church weekend

_Dear Friend,

In September we were together for a Church Weekend looking at what God’s vision might be for us as a church today and into the future. A while back we developed a new Logo and Strapline ‘St. Andrew’s, God’s heart for the community’ and with it a whole new emphasis on our reason for being here. This came after consulting with people and looking outside of our building.

As a result of this new ‘branding’ it was felt that we needed a new focus and as a leadership team we believed this would come in the form of a Mission Statement. After a lot of information was received from many different people under the guidance of Revd. Gordon Randall from the Diocese, we now present to you this Mission document.

You will not be able to do all of what we are asking you to consider, but equally you might be more than willing to be part of it. Have a look at what follows and let one of the officers know if you would like to be part of something you see herein.

One thing was identified above others and that was administrative help so we are currently looking into the provision of this help.

We will look to examine our progress annually and review this document after 3 years.

Yours in Christ
The Revd Mike Taylor

__Internally as a worshipping community

• To be a community, worshipping God and belonging to Him. 

Externally as a worshipping community (Outreach)

• To be fishers of our wider community (beyond the church) seeking and saving the lost. 

Influence

• To build God’s kingdom here in St. Andrew’s and become more deeply rooted in our wider community generously living out our loving service for His glory.

_We aim to be a community, worshipping God and belonging to Him in the following ways... 

• To learn how to work together

• To learn how to worship together
• To respect our differences whilst valuing our unity
• To pray together
• To reach out with the love we have
• To mentor each other—encouraging growth

To do these things...

• we need people to look at how we might work together
• we need people to look at planning for joint services
• we need people to understand our diversity
• we need people to come along to prayer events
• we need people to get involved in outreach
• we need people to become mentors to others

This will mean that unity will be a description of our church
This will mean that the joint services satisfy as many members as possible
This will mean that we will be able to support each other
This will mean that our prayer meetings will increase in numbers attending
This will mean that more people will be reached for the gospel
This will mean that everybody will be encouraged by another
Resulting in a greater sense of unity

_We aim to be fishers of our wider community (beyond the church) seeking and saving the lost. 

• To make sure occasional visitors know what we do and offer
• To offer gifts to businesses and people in our community
• To offer more acts of service to our community
• To be more visible in our community

To do these things…

• we need people to help provide information packs
• we need people to make cakes etc, to deliver and to hand out at special times
• we need people to help with Grace Trust, to think about helping folk with shopping, gardening, babysitting
• we need people to produce advertising and to take it out into the shops and maybe houses of out district

This will mean that at each occasional service there will be packs to hand out to visitors
This will mean that we can bless our community with seasonal gifts
This will mean that we will build a reputation of community care
This will mean that we will be more widely known and recognised for what we are doing
To see our numbers increase in 5 years by 10 people

_We aim to build God’s kingdom here in St. Andrew’s and become more deeply rooted in our wider

community generously living out our loving service for His glory.

• To look at further developing occasional services
• To look at making the most of occasional events
• To take the church out doors—possibly the park
• To make more of family/community events
• To follow up for Baptism and wedding families—possibly special services

To do these things...

• we need people to look at the development of occasional services
• we need people to get involved in occasional events
• we need people to get involved in outside church services
• we need people to volunteer to help at community/family events
• we need people to help to administer follow up

This will mean that we will be able to reach more people more effectively
This will mean that it won’t be left to a few to host and run these events
This will mean that our visibility and availability will be higher and more people reached for Christ
This will mean that it will be the work of the many not the few
This will make everything we do more efficient
That we will be more visible and have greater influence