Vision for Mission

The Queensland Synod’s Vision for Mission has identified key areas where there needs to be culture shift.
Primarily there needs to be a shift toward entrepreneurial endeavours that are not reliant on the traditional models of funding. This means closer partnerships with community needs that can attract community funding. This has been [...]

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Vision for Mission is sponsoring the launch of the Greenhouse Project over 2007 and 2008.
Initially the Greenhouse Project was designed by Mark Cornford as a way of engaging Uniting Church young adults in mission, in teams rather than as individuals. Vision for Mission have worked with Mark to open this process up to any Uniting [...]

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A small steering group, part of the Mission Advisory Forum, started in 2001 to plan for a conference to help the Queensland Synod engage in the issue of church planting. The tentative name for the conference was “Seeds of Hope”. For various reasons the conference was postponed.
In the meantime CRM Australia (Church Resource Ministries) invited [...]

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I attended a worship service at Ponsonby Baptist back in the 1990s, while Mike Riddell was minister there. It was interesting service. A mixture of traditional organ-led hymns, guitar-led blues, informal and formal prayer. After half an hour of interactive worship we took a coffee break in the hall next door, where we heard about [...]

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The Vision for Mission team have done some hard work on establishing a process for working with mission projects. Before we could distribute large amounts of money, we had to have a transparent set of guidelines approved by the Synod Leadership Team and Finance and Property Services. Here’s a summary of where we’re at.
Sustainable Mission [...]

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There’s a humorous television advertisement doing the rounds, for Berlitz Communication School. I’ve written about the ad at Duncan’s TV. A young recruit is introduced to the controls of a Coastguard station by his older colleague. Once he’s on his own he discovers the subtleties of communicating with the English speaking communications officer. ‘Mayday Mayday [...]

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As the Vision for Mission team considers its support of mission projects, the following criteria will be considered. These criteria were included in the Vision For Mission document approved at the Queensland Synod, 2005.

Focus on cultural or common-purpose groups.
Relational approaches to evangelism.
People growing in faith & becoming active disciples of Christ.
Connections and relationships with individuals [...]

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I started as Vision for Mission Advocate on Wednesday March 1.
I had the opportunity to meet with the Synod Leadership team that day to talk through my priorities for the first month in the position.
No secrets…
First Priorities for March 2006
1. Appoint Members of Facilitation Team Establish Facilitation Team. I [...]

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