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To envision, help and facilitate local churches in the evangelism and discipleship of young people (11-19 year olds), and to support, encourage and resource this youth work in the community and surrounding villages.
Vision Ø To see a growing crowd of young Christians running the marathon of lifelong faith with their eyes fixed on Jesus, through the provision of an ecumenical support base to a Christian life; Ø To see young Christians in the area reaching out with their faith and bringing their peers into God’s family. Ø To see Youth Leaders from all the churches coming together to work as the Body of Christ to bring Jesus to all young people; Ø To establish God’s Kingdom in the lives of all young people in Banbury and the surrounding villages.
Aims Ø To see local churches taking active responsibility for the discipleship of their young people Ø To encourage local churches to work together in providing Christian outreach into all the secondary schools in the area, colleges of further education and other places where young people might meet. Ø To encourage the young people to participate in the community projects
Impact’s Core Values Ø seek, in everything we do, to further God’s Kingdom rather than individual churches; Ø be an interdenominational organisation supporting and being supported by all churches in the local area; Ø through each of our activities, help young people to come to know God and enter into a close relationship with him; Ø endeavour to ensure that more young people in our communities come to hear God’s good news; Ø facilitate and promote the development of youth work using local resources within all sectors of the community, its churches and its surrounding villages
Impact’s Basis of Faith Recognising the diversity of theology represented by the churches supporting Impact, after prayerful consideration, the Churches Together Basis of Faith was adopted by Impact. This is : · Acknowledging God’s revelation in Christ, we confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures, and, in obedience to God’s will and in the power of the Holy Spirit commit ourselves: Ø to seek a deepening of our communion with Christ and with one another in the Church, which is his body; and Ø to fulfil our mission to proclaim the Gospel by common witness and service in the world Ø to the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. · the authority comes from the Bible. · all teaching is from the Bible not adding to it or taking away from the glorious word of God. · teach to the head and heart and hands of the young people. · to have a passion to see young people live faithful lives for our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Impact’s Youth Worker Vision We have a Vision for churches - to provide paid or voluntary youth workers in their churches and secondary schools. We have a vision for 4 full-time salaried youth workers dedicated to reaching out with the gospel to, and working with, the students of our 4 secondary schools (Warriner, Banbury, Drayton, Chenderit). Funding to be sourced from existing donors, individual people, individual churches and ‘parachurch’ organisations e.g. Deanery, Regional Circuit, Diocese, local companies, and acceptable national funding sources. Their job description will be to spread the good news of Jesus by: Ø working in partnership with the schools as much as is possible; Ø helping to provide the OFSTED required ‘spirituality’ input’; Ø acting as unofficial ‘chaplains’; Ø helping the schools to provide pre and after school provision; Ø teaching in classes; and providing lunchtime clubs, assemblies etc.
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