Embracing Change: The Diocese of London's Vision for 2030
Amidst the challenges brought by COVID-19, the Diocese of London shares their vision for 2030, focusing on confident discipleship, compassionate communities, and creative growth. The pandemic has prompted a re-imagination of church life, emphasizing the importance of adapting to new ways of engagement and outreach.
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Our 2030 Vision
A time of re-imagining C-19 has caused great suffering, anxiety and changes to society and church life A time of mourning, suffering and sharing the compassion of Christ Forced change to church life going online, leadership through small groups, crisis response and collaboration It has not been easy Church giving and regular attendance has dropped We haven't always known who is following online services or their level of engagement Many have been exploring Christianity online Where do we go from here? See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? (Isaiah 43:19)
A big thank you A big thank you We re here to support you and parish mission This is the beginning of a conversation We d love to hear from you about how we might communicate this vision to your parishes, communities and networks as we support churches through covid
Our 2030 Vision Our 2030 Vision- - London responded London responded Last summer over 6,000 people responded to our listening campaign to discern our way towards 2030 Clear priorities emerged The ambitions are broad and still stand, despite Covid-19 But how we live and apply them has changed This is our vision
Diocese of London 2030 Vision Vision: Vision For every Londoner to encounter the love of God in Christ Ambition Priorities Resources Ambitions: inspiration Confident disciples Compassionate communities Creative growth Priorities Younger | Safer | More racially just Resources People & Diversity | Buildings | Finance Inspired by prayer
Confident Disciples Acts 2 - 42: They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer ..
Confident Disciples Confident Disciples Building on Ambassadors and everything we re doing well to grow disciples Recognising 59% Christians in CoE say their church does not equip people well for life in today's world at home, work or elsewhere A journey we go on together, respecting different approaches Question for discussion: What support do worshipping communities need to grow confident disciples, especially in these covid days?
Compassionate Communities Acts 2: 45 Acts 2: 45 to give to anyone who had need ..
Compassionate Communities Building on 1,500 compassion initiatives in our churches each year Focus for the 2030 Vision. For the diocesan team to support local initiatives across the following six areas:: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Caring for God s Creation responding to the climate crisis Mental health and wellbeing esp through Covid Modern Day Slavery and refugees Debt Youth violence and knife crime Homelessness and housing Question for discussion: What support do worshipping communities need to grow more compassionate communities, especially in response to the effects of covid?
Creative Growth Acts 2: 37 Acts 2: 37 And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved
Creative Growth Population of London is growing while CoE attendance is declining Call the church to be more creative, brave and experimental Working to our strengths and in collaboration with others Question for discussion: What support do worshipping communities need to grow in numbers, creatively?
To reach every Londoner, we need to grow. younger, safer and more racially just These are our 3 priorities
Growing Younger Acts 2: 17 Your young people shall see visions We re missing our young people Teenagers Students Young professionals Question for discussion: What support do worshipping communities need to grow younger?
Becoming Safer Acts 2: 28 You have made known to me the paths of life We have not done enough to prevent or respond to past abuse We are sorry and must do better in: Promoting a safer culture Our responsibility to children and adults at risk Responding to every safeguarding concern or allegation Caring for victims/survivors of abuse Responding to those who may pose a present risk to others Question for discussion: What support do worshipping communities need in order to grow safer?
Striving for racial justice Acts2: 5 from every nation under heaven We are diverse, from many cultures and backgrounds, speaking over 250 different languages. We need to examine our theology, structures, and appointments, to see where we have colluded with racism We need to say sorry and make real changes We need to be a community where people from diverse cultural backgrounds can be visible and contribute at every level of leadership and governance Question for discussion: How can our worshipping communities grow more racially just?
Diocese of London Vision 2030 Diocese of London Vision 2030 Vision: Vision For every Londoner to encounter the love of God in Christ Ambitions: Confident disciples Ambition Priorities Resources Inspiration Compassionate communities Creative growth Priorities Younger | Safer | More racially just Resources People & Diversity | Buildings | Finance Inspired by prayer
Feedback and response How can we live out our vision in a Covid world? What support do you need? 1. To share ideas or make any general suggestions about our vision, or for support needed, please contact Angus Stephenson at 2030vision@london.anglican.org 2. To discuss more local ideas for collaboration with other churches in your Episcopal Area please liaise with: Kensington: +Graham, Richard Frank, Jonathan Rust 2 Cities: +Sarah, Adam Atkinson Stepney: +Joanne, Andy Rider Willesden: +Pete, Christopher Ramsay Edmonton: +Rob, John Hawkins
