Vision 2022-2027
SEE | Vision 2022-2027
SEEING GOD’S LOVE
We exist as a community of disciples to show everyone God’s love. We believe that an encounter with Jesus, even a glimpse, will bring radical transformation (Luke 8:44). We are not an ember hiding in the wind, but a beacon of light, defiant against the darkness (Philippians 2:15).
Our desire is that through our services, our ministries, and our everyday ordinary lives, people who are broken by sin and shame might see Jesus and His love and find the healing, purpose and life only He can bring. A life that is anything but ordinary (John 10:10).
Therefore as existing disciples and new followers find grace, mercy and peace, (2 John 1:3), our identity is one that aches (Galatians 4:19) for people to see God’s love and embark upon the greatest journey that there ever was – that they might find life and glory (Luke 9:24).
KNOW | Vision 2022-2027
KNOWING GOD’S LOVE
Seeing to showing doesn’t just happen. Equipped disciples are not just created, they are forged - forged in prayer and the Word. Discipleship is the catalyst for all we do in Downshire. It is the deepening of the soil, the strengthening of the soul.
We long to be a community of Biblical-explorers, relentlessly asking the Holy Spirit to open up the Word to us that our lives might be consumed with His grace and peace (2 Peter 1:2).
Knowing God’s love, diving into God’s Word, praying without ceasing (1 Thess 5:17), are the driving force that lead us in our journey from seeing God’s love to serving Him in our everyday normal lives.
SHOW | Vision 2022-2027
SHOWING GOD’S LOVE
Our Sunday services last for an hour, our home groups a little longer – a fraction of the diverse weeks we move through. We rebel against the idea that Jesus is a small compartment in a busy and full life – Jesus is everything, Jesus is life.
Therefore we long to be a church that equips worshipful, prayerful, pioneering disciples and releases them into their everyday lives (Mark 16:20). Lives that consist of schools and bakeries, engineering firms and offices in the city, the frantic drop off of kids at school and being a friend during a crisis – life.
We long to be a community of sent disciples who are courageously Biblical. ‘Jesus-Pioneers’ in a world that is decaying, and in turn allowing other people to ‘see God’s love’ through our frontline lives.
We also know that some might be called to go beyond the confines of our local community and go to the furthest reaches of the globe. Our vision is that Downshire is a place that equips disciples wherever God might send them.
Disciples who make Disciples.