Family of Churches
We want to be a family of healthy churches that display and proclaim God’s love to Bristol and beyond.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Display and Proclaim God’s love
In response to God’s great love for us, we want to be churches that both display and proclaim God’s love in ways that would point people to Him.
So, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we long to be followers of Jesus who:
Love God
With the whole of our lives, celebrating His goodness and praising Him for the love He has shown us in Jesus
Love each other
With a humility and generosity that reflects how Jesus loves us, and which graciously speaks His truth into each other’s lives.
Love the people around us
With sacrificial deeds that point to Jesus and words that proclaim the good news of His Kingdom.
TO BRISTOL AND BEYOND
The good news of God’s saving love is good news of great joy for all people. We can’t keep it to ourselves. That’s why we want to equip and send people out as witnesses to Jesus.
Equip
We want to equip and encourage each other go out as witnesses to Jesus, who display and proclaim God’s love to the people around us.
Send
Because the good news of God’s love sends us out to people and places beyond our natural reach, we want to train and send people out to support and plant more churches that display and proclaim God’s love in Bristol, across the UK and throughout the world.
AS A FAMILY OF CHURCHES
If we’re going to do all this, we need to be…
Churches that are healthy
In order to be churches that are spiritually, relationally and organisationally healthy, by God’s grace, we want to help each other to:
- Take in and live out God’s Word.
- Depend on God in prayer.
- Live lives marked by praise and worship.
- Re-order our priorities to give ourselves to serve each other and the people around us.
- Be generous in going out to support and plant more churches in Bristol and beyond.
- Ensure all our leadership is Christlike, transparent, and accountable
Churches that support each other
As a family of churches, we work together to support each other. Here are some of the ways we do that:
- Learning Leaders and staff share ideas, learn from each other, and help guard against blind spots as they work together.
- Resourcing We share resources and logistics to lighten the load on each church.
- Ministry and Mission We work together in areas of ministry or mission that we could not do alone or could do better together.
- Sending We pool wisdom and experience to train and send gospel workers out across the city and the world.
- Planting We pull together to resource local initiatives to support and plant more churches in Bristol and beyond.
EXPLORE OUR CHURCHES
To Bristol and Beyond
The good news of God’s saving love is good news of great joy for all people. We can’t keep it to ourselves. That’s why we want to send people out as witnesses to Jesus.
Equip each other
We want to equip and encourage each other go out as witnesses to Jesus, who display and proclaim God’s love to the people around us.
And because the good news of God’s love sends us out to people and places beyond our natural reach, we want to train and send people out to support and plant more churches that display and proclaim God’s love in Bristol, across the UK and throughout the world.
Strive for Health
- Take in and live out God’s Word.
- Depend on God in prayer.
- Live lives marked by praise and worship.
- Re-order our priorities to give ourselves to serve each other and the people around us.
- Be generous in going out to support and plant more churches in Bristol and beyond.
- Ensure all our leadership is Christlike, transparent, and accountable
Churches that support each other
As a family of churches, we work together to support each other. Here are some of the ways we do that:
- Learning Leaders and staff share ideas, learn from each other, and help guard against blind spots as they work together.
- Resourcing We share resources and logistics to lighten the load on each church.
- Ministry and Mission We work together in areas of ministry or mission that we could not do alone or could do better together.
- Sending We pool wisdom and experience to train and send gospel workers out across the city and the world.
- Planting We pull together to resource local initiatives to support and plant more churches in Bristol and beyond.