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The Diocese
of Chester has launched a new initiative called “Growth Action
Planning” or GAP for short.
At St
Luke’s we are starting our GAP project by asking residents of the
Parish what they are looking for in the church, so that we can change to
serve the community better.
The primary
aim of Growth Action Planning is to help each church in the Diocese to
focus on what God longs for it to be like in 5 years time. The church then
decides on the priorities it will set for the coming year. This is to
ensure that each church uses its energy and talents wisely. It follows from
this that the most important thing in GAP is to discern God’s calling
for your church and this means that prayer is central to all that we do in
GAP.
Growth is about quality of worship, deepening discipleship, growing in
prayer and developing our contacts with the wider community. Alongside
this, ‘Growth’ in GAP is also about growth in numbers. As a
church grows in health it will grow in numbers. GAP asks us to plan for the
future of the church in this holistic way but does not allow us to sweep
the issue of numerical growth under the carpet.
Download a
leaflet on Becoming a Healthy
Church here.
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