Thank you very much to everybody for filling in the questionnaire. Your reflection on the past few years and your vision for our churches has been very interesting and promises to lead to an exciting conversation about our new vision statement.

This week we will start this conversation in our Lent Course. The sessions have been devised by Simon, Gordon, Anna & Paul and each week will involve worship, talks, discussion , conversation and prayer.

'Appreciative Enquiry' is at the heart of 'Vision 2012'. So we  begin by discovering and celebrating the best of what is , where we see God's life now, before dreaming what it would be like if there was more of that happening in the future. They are the first two steps, 'Discover' & 'Dream', and these will be the focus of  our Lent course,. Having put into words of God's vision for us, in the months after Easter, each part of our church community  will be invited to design ways of helping that Vision become a reality in their work. From there, with God, we will then work together to make that vision a reality. So 4 steps in all, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver! 

If you can, please join us for our first Lent Course evening, this Wednesday, 29th of February, 7.45 for 8pm, at the Church Centre. The topic is "Be selfish with God - Psalm 139".

If you cannot, do not worry. We will post updates on this blog and would like to encourage you to comment on anything that is published here.

The topics of the subsequent sessions will be

• Experiencing God in worship (7th of March)
• Living God's values  (14th of March)
• Serving God in the community (21 st of March)
• 2017? (28th of March)