Bath Deanery Everyone a discipleEveryone a disciple-maker

THE STORY SO FAR

DEANERYSYNOD

CONTEXT

CHANGE

CHANGE CHANGE

2121

2020

1919

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Peter Hill – Archdeacon of Nottingham30th October 2011

“I’m involved in the deployment strategy for the diocese and looking at where we put vicars,

clergy and mission leaders in the diocese for 2020, and just for your prayers, at the moment there are roughly 150 clergy in the diocese…

but by 2020, unless there is a serious miracle of ordination and vocation, there will only be 100

available to us. That’s a third less.And so, unless something changes we will be

placing lay people in charge of parishes before too long.”

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

Effie Clare Ludwell

NOT ALL CHANGE IS BAD

OPPORTUNITYOPPORTUNITYTO RETHINK TO RETHINK MINISTRYMINISTRY

TO A PROCESS

VISIONOur desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and transformed by God’s loving rule.

DISCIPLESHIPGo and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the

name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have

commanded you.

JESUS

DISCIPLELearner

Listener

Believer Trainee

StudentFollower

APPRENTICEHis disciples were with him in order to become like him

THE KINGDOMOF GOD

Our desire is to see hundreds more people drawn into discipleship and our whole community changed and

transformed by God’s loving rule.

RE-THINKING

WHERE DO YOU DRINK COFFEE?

COFFEE HOUSE

CAFES

CAFES

CAFES

CAFES

CAFES

SHOPPING

SHOPPING

SHOPPING

STATIONS

CAR PARKS

WORK

HOME

FRIENDS

FAMILY

CHURCH

ITS ABOUTTHE COFFEE

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAFE

ITS ABOUTDISCIPLESHIP

IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CHURCH

We must be a transforming and transformative church that looks outwards to the community and to the world in which we are set. The mission of God is not only a higher calling than the maintenance of the church. It is the very reason for which God brought the church into being. Practically speaking we need to stop starting with the church and focus instead on God’s mission.

And this mission belongs not just to your parish priest, but to all of you who have been marked with the sign of the cross at your baptism. We are all called as members of the Body of Christ, priest and people alike, to be a ministering congregation to the communities in which we are set.

I WILL BUILD I WILL BUILD MY CHURCHMY CHURCH

YOU GO AND YOU GO AND MAKE DISCIPLESMAKE DISCIPLES

EVERYONE A DISCIPLE-MAKER

EVERYONE A DISCIPLE

EVERYWHERE A DISCIPLESHIP INVITATION

EVERY CHURCH A DISCIPLESHIP CENTREEVERY CHURCH A

DISCIPLESHIP COMMUNITY

PUTTING

DISCIPLESHIP IN THE

CENTRE

Growing LeadersDeepening PartnershipsDeveloping Chaplaincy

DEEP ROOTSDEEP ROOTS

ONGOING REVIEW

A ROAD MAPA ROAD MAP

PUTTING

DISCIPLESHIP IN THE

CENTRE

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE COFFEE