Our Vision
All are welcome and all are working together for God in our community.
Our Mission
Our Aim
To be a cohesive, caring church community. Learning, worshipping and witnessing to the love of God.
Our Priorities
Nourish
Nourish a worshipping community by increasing awareness of God’s presence and celebrating his love
We will achieve this by:
- frequent participation of cross-section of congregation in worship
- continuing to provide Sunday Club
- supporting our uniformed organisations
- holding regular All Age Worship
- using a range of resources and styles to enhance worship e.g. Taize services
- sustaining high quality music by maintaining the church organ, paying an assistant organist and encouraging more to join band/orchestra
- continued access to Zoom services
Nuture
Nurture our church family
We will achieve this by:
- encouraging everybody to help as well as be helped
- finding out what our congregation wants and what skills they can bring
- offering pastoral help and prayer in times of need
- organising occasional social gatherings such as Harvest breakfast, lunches, Tea & Chat
- wide circulation of attractive church magazine and weekly sheet
- effective use of social media
Help
Help people develop their faith
We will achieve this by:
- running small house groups
- promoting various resources, study notes and seasonal materials
- offering mentorship
- supporting the work of Churches Together in Buxton
Develop
Develop more welcoming buildings
We will achieve this by:
- making building warm and weathertight
- taking measures to lower our impact on the climate
- making our building fully accessible
- undertaking a dementia-friendly church audit
- improving signage
Use
Use our premises for witness and mission
We will achieve this by:
- actively marketing our premises so they are fully used all week, boosting our income as well as our audience and profile
- providing a welcoming weekly café
- fostering links with local groups
Witness
Witness for social justice
We will achieve this by:
- continuing to learn from and support world issues through: Christian Aid, All We Can, JMA, Action for Children, Fairtrade and specific campaigns
- offering to use our resources to help people in need in our local community
- becoming an Eco Church