Our Vision

Here at Holy Trinity we want to prayerfully and carefully discern what God wants us to do. Each year we set aside a Sunday to launch our vision for the coming year, as well as celebrating what God has been doing among us over the past twelve months.

During the autumn of 2023 we took time as a church to focus on our vision and values, and the mission that God has called us to. Vision Sunday on 14th January 2024 was a chance to refresh our wider vision and look at where God is calling us in the year ahead.

Through the discernment process over the autumn, we brought together our key values under four headings: Welcome, Worship, Wisdom and Witness. Dan led us through Ephesians 1:15-23 to see how God calls us as a church to become full of Jesus in every way. These four values sum up the ways in which we are continually filled up with Jesus and invite others to be filled with Jesus too.

As we looked at our mission as a church, we summarised our purpose in as simple a statement as possible: together with Jesus. These words help us to remember our calling as a community: to build that community and invite others to be part of it, to focus on Jesus above all else and to remember that we do this with Him and in His power and strength.

As we look to the coming year, the key message was not about new initiatives or extra ministries, but about refocusing ourselves on Jesus. Picking up on words from C. S. Lewis' book, 'The last battle', the call of God to us is to go "Further up and further in." We can be so busy as a church that we can forget to focus on Jesus, and we can become complacent in our walk with God. Thinking of the episode from Luke's gospel where Mary sat at Jesus' feet while her sister fretted about the practicalities, we are being called back to sit at Jesus' feet and to be less Martha, more Mary over the coming year.

You can listen to the sermon from Vision Sunday 2024 below:Download the Vision Sunday 2024 sermon.

Along with Vision Sunday, we set aside a Sunday each year in January as Giving Sunday. We use that occasion to think about how we give to God's work through prayer, service and finances. We revisit and renew our vision at the start of year on Giving Sunday, and again later in the year at our Annual Church Meeting.

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