Vision

The vision is Jesus: to love Him, to know Him, and to see all things as He sees them. Everything else is the overflow. He is our focus, our ambition, our pace-setter, our inspiration, our friend. His are the rhythms of grace.

It is a movement of the Holy Spirit, fuelled in prayer and warfare, undermining the structural and personal work of darkness in every hurting life — unto their salvation, healing, transformation, liberation, and participation.

It is to become a sacrificial and interdependent community, and a community of communities, that pulsate with love, honesty, forgiveness, honour, and authenticity, who travel together in the real questions and pains and joys of our lives.

It is to learn to worship and pray corporately, intimately, expectantly, joyfully, freely, and with eyes that perceive the ever-present potential of His beautiful Kingdom.

It is to see transformed communities, economics inverted, poverty contended, addicts liberated, sex workers beloved, asylum seekers honoured, single people and families finding belonging and family together, the hungry fed, and orphans drawn into our homes.

It is to live with material simplicity and yet celebration of everything beautiful, delicious, and good. It is to embody prophetic generosity with our money, possessions, people and gifts. It is to steward a culture of love, honour, creativity, laughter, rest and authenticity in our leadership and teams, modelling a contagious new way of being to our city.

It is to espouse grace-modelled parenting, healthy lifestyles, and ethical shopping — to be a loud and effective voice in society for justice, anti-trafficking, aid and development locally and overseas, for peace and reconciliation in the conflicts of the world. It is to become a sending and receiving hub of missionary work, effectively and relationally linked to the nations.

It is to be an inspiration centre for the artisan and the entrepreneur, hosting an atmosphere of empowerment, courage, and reconnection to our God-given creativity. It is to enable every one of us to journey on the winds of the Spirit as partners with the very imagination of God.

The vision is to see miracle-bringers on the streets, in the offices and warehouses and shopping centres and back gardens of a city, inviting the Lordship of Jesus to transform the pains of the ordinary into His vibrant fullness. It is to see oh so many join this vision of the pursuit of Him, recognising in joy and clarity that He is alive, that He reigns, and that He calls us to friendship, to daughtership and sonship, and to partnership in His cosmic work of healing.

This vision is not ours, but has been inspired in us through meeting the Great Visionary; the One who truly sees what our souls and our city could be. The One whose values are more beautiful and ability more complete and love more radical than any other power or personality upon the earth. None can be compared with Him. He is our Visionary, our Leader, our Lord. He is our Origin, our Way Maker, and our Destination. He is our Source. And His name is Jesus.

For the unending glory of His name, so may this be.