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Building Our Future
Stratigic Plan

OUR OBJECTIVES
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Offering meaningful Christian worship with warm-hearted togetherness.
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Offering responsive pastoral care to those within or outside our Church community
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Deepening our understanding of the Gospel and our Methodist inheritance
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Fostering community in Christchurch West and beyond
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Nurturing our resources, whether people, property or financial
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Building for a vibrant future
OUR OUTCOMES
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Our Church community will feel empowered to share each other’s Christian experience and to be change-making, faithful and inclusive
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The needful among us or those whom we encounter ‘on the road’ are appropriately supported and connected
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Regardless of age, we are learning and growing in our faith and understanding of the world.
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We offer service and aroha within our parish and beyond
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We make the most of our time, talents, land and finance
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We develop and deliver a plan to support our community’s long term vision.

OUR VALUES

Whakapono –
faith and trust
Proclaiming the ever-present availability of God’s love, in keeping with our Methodist heritage Bicultural Journey -
Commitment to Te Tiriti O Waitangi
Manaakitanga -
Hospitality and care for ourselves, each other, and our neighbours because we are all children of God.
Kaitiakitanga -
Good stewardship of our resources, now and into the future
Aroha ki te tangata, Aroha ki te whenua -
Working for the wellbeing of the local community and our local place