Our central aim is to see our community transformed with the love of God by knowing Jesus and making Jesus known.

We try to give this shape with five key values:

1. God led.
   actively seeking to know and follow what God is doing today, because, unless God builds the house the labourers work in vain. Ps 127.1
   
   
2. Spirit empowered
   Expecting and making space to encounter God’s presence in everything we do, because: the same power that raised Christ from the dead is living in us. Rom 8.11, and Eph. 1. 17-21
   
   
3. Open and inclusive
   Offering a generous, grace-filled welcome, that values difference, encourages questioning, and enables honesty, integrity and transparency, because just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body – whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. And so the body is not made up of one part but of many... 1 Corinthians 12. 12-27 
   
   
4. Fully engaged
   offering everyone opportunities for contributing as well as receiving, seeking after God’s kingdom not our own comfort, and intentionally engaging in: Evangelism; Social Action; and Campaigning for Change, because each of us should use whatever gift we have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4.10
   
   
5. Always growing
   Growing in numbers, growing in depth of faith & knowledge, and growing closer together, by nurturing robust, personal faith at all ages, supporting families of all kinds in the struggles and joys of life, and working to connect with each other in genuine, diverse, caring relationship, because speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. Ephesians 4: 15-16

    

If you would like to know more or we can help you get connected in any way please do contact us.  Your first point of contact is Sue Nelson our Office Administrator, email churchoffice@holyapostles.org.uk or call 01242 242570.