Vision for Mission

Trinity Theological College in Brisbane has two mission-related courses on offer at Trinity College in 2009.
Building Community
Building Community is being taught by Dave Andrews, using his books Compassionate Community Work and Not Religion But Love as the main texts. Thursday afternoons, 1 – 4 pm, February 26 to June 4.
Mission of the Church
Mission of [...]

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Carrying a street sign that once pointed to a growing Uniting Church congregation Vision for Mission Advocate Rev Duncan Macleod spoke to the November meeting of the Queensland Synod about the lessons learned from two and a half years with the Vision for Mission project.

Mr Macleod explained that the sign had become redundant when the [...]

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Here’s a process to help a community get their heads around what it means to be missional. This gives the opportunity to examine the heart of mission – being sent by Jesus. As we walk through different rooms in a church complex we stop to reflect on a period of Church history.
Concepts explored here can [...]

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The word ‘mission’ is thrown around in many circles, not just in the church. When I quiz people about it I get a range of answers.
Mission, as an English word, comes from ‘missio’, a Latin word describing ’sending’, from the verb, mittere, to send.
1. Mission as a project (often sent from HQ). “Your mission, should [...]

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