Our Priorities

Our vision as a movement is:

'Growing healthy Churches in relationship for God's mission'

Following the discussion at Baptist Union Council in November 2018, a set of six priorities emerged.  These were outlined in the Council report:

• Given the urgent need to pursue God’s mission in our UK context, we believe that we need to focus on our value: 'Embrace adventure: Being serious about discipleship, willing to take risks, pioneer and move out of the comfort zone of familiar ways of doing things (Matt. 28:18-20)' Council particularly wanted to embody this value in the context of mission, evangelism and discipleship

• Working through the remaining recommendations of the Ignite report

• Developing leadership in all its forms, together with a focus on equipping the whole body of Christ

• Children Young People and Families – our CYF Round Table brought some concrete proposals to Council in their presentation and these were affirmed

• A similar but separate focus on Emerging Adults aged 18-35 – a group who are largely missing from our churches

• Digital revolution – not only our own digital capacity, but reflecting on the implications of the digital revolution on mission, ministry and society