Objectives

The Council's objectives are:

to enhance the Church's mission by:

  • promoting spiritual and numerical growth
  • enabling and supporting the worshipping Church and encouraging and promoting new ways of being Church, and
  • engaging with issues of social justice and environmental stewardship

to sustain and advance the Church's work in education, lifelong learning and discipleship;

to enable the Church to select, train and resource the right people, both ordained and lay, to carry out public ministry and to encourage lay people in their vocation to the world; and

to encourage the maintenance and development of the inherited fabric of Church buildings for worship and service to the community.