Transforming WiganStrategy 2016

1. VisionTo see 10% of Wigan on a discipleship journey with Jesus by 2022. A transforming ‘one-in-ten’ vision that seeks to encourage people to encounter Jesus from the first stage of exploring, through to engagement with his invite, and on to serving him as a commissioned disciple using the gifts he gives.

2. PrinciplesMaking Disciples.Growing Disciples.Transforming the ‘going to church’ consumer model into a ‘church to go’ provider model that resources and equips people to share their faith, exercise their gifts & ministries and grow individually and together as the body of Christ.

3. AimsRenewing Disciples. Re-orientating Church. Reviving Community.Establishing discipleship over and above church-membership. Equipping people to be confident in their faith to serve and share the good news of Jesus wherever they are each day. Creating new worship community ‘hubs’ through re-forming the viable traditional expressions and planting fresh expressions of church to make and grow disciples. Developing partnerships with other church groups and community providers to enable fullness of life in Wigan.

4. ObjectivesGathering the passionate. Germinating prayer. Growing leaders. Giving love and careEquipping and helping those more passionate about being disciples of Jesus than being attenders of church services. Establishing a network of prayer across Wigan. Raising up, appointing and supporting new local missional leaders and teams to enable and resource the growth. In all of this, loving and caring for those who struggle with such transformational change.

5. Goals in 2016Establishing the Team Wigan ethos.Creating the House of Prayer network.Growing Local Missional Leadership.Developing Deeper Discipleship.Planting new worship communities among young people.Transformation will focus on the leadership and re-structuring of the small-parish model into a number of new worship community hubs that will eventually become ‘NewParishes’ within the overall Diocesan vision and plan. See overleaf for more detail on the plans to achieve these goals in 2016.

ONE VISIONTo see 10% of people in Wigan on a discipleship

journey with Jesus.

TWO PRINCIPLESMaking Disciples

Growing Disciples

THREE AIMSRenewing disciples

Re-orientating churchReviving community

FOUR OBJECTIVESGathering the

passionateGerminating prayer

Growing leadersGiving love and care

FIVE GOALSTeam Wigan

House of PrayerDeeper Discipleship

Local Missional Leadership

Young people

“Every teacher of religious law who

becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a homeowner who brings from their storeroom new

gems of truth as well as old.”

PRINCIPLE VALUES

GREAT COMMANDMENT

Loving God with all our heart, soul and mind, and

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Transforming Wigan. Strategic Goals 2016

(i) Establishing the ‘Team Wigan’ ethos The small parish model with the attitude of “my building, my service and my vicar” is dying fast. Within the Diocesan strategy to grow ‘a bigger church to make a bigger difference,’ we will develop one Church in Wigan uniting all the disciples of Jesus – partnering with all denominations wanting to journey together in this. ‘Team Wigan’ will grow new Hubs of worship communities each with a Hub Leader and Associate who, together with the Local Missional Leaders of each worship community in the Hub, will form the leadership team to make and grow disciples in that Hub

context.

(ii) Creating the House of Prayer networkEach worship community will have a Prayer Co-ordinator. They will join together to develop the network with the aim of creating a vibrant House of Prayer. A rhythm of prayer will be established and we will also explore the idea of forming a prayer community

for people to join for a season.

(iii) Growing Local Missional LeadershipWe will invest in training, resourcing and coaching leadership to enable us to reform traditional and form new worship communities. The ‘Directions’ course will play a key role. We will set a new Leadership Development Pathway building on the good principles of the Diocesan School of Leadership and the Inter-Diocesan Learning

Community.

(iv) Developing Deeper DiscipleshipThe shift from ‘church attender’ to ‘disciple of Jesus’ is critical. We will keep up a monthly encouragement and equipping event and develop resources to help people make this shift and grow as disciples who make and grow disciples. Our ‘BreakOut Sunday’ on May 15th (Pentecost) will get us out of our boxes and into Wigan to express

and celebrate the presence of Jesus with us and in us by the power of His Spirit.

(v) New worship communities for young peopleYoung people are our focus group for making and growing disciples. We will plant new worship communities through our schools and will grow chaplaincy to include new worship communities. We will appoint specific

‘catalyst’ pioneers to grow this work as a team together in Wigan.

… and in and around thisWe will undertake a mission audit to inform our growth strategy going forward. We will be ‘pruning’ as well ‘planting’. As we move from the old to the new we will need to help one another step on in faith and love.

PRINCIPLE VALUES

GREAT COMMANDMENT

Loving God with all our heart, soul and mind, and