SION BAPTIST CHURCH - The Pastor's Vision for 2010

Our Mission is to be a Visionary, Forward-looking Church.

 

"To be Jesus to the world, showing Him to everyone in our Living, Serving and Worshipping."

 

The Bible

Our Bible Text for 2010 is

Jeremiah Chapter 29 verse 13:

"You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."

 

Serving

To be a WELCOMING CHURCH

Matthew Chapter 28 verses 19 to 20.

Mark Chapter 9 verse 37.Welcome

To be as warm and welcoming as we can, winning people to Christ and seeing the Church grow, developing into a mission-minded Church in the local community.

To be an active Church, seeking to learn from other ministries, so enhancing our ministry for Christ locally and even beyond!

 

Unity

UNITY - Acts Chapter 2 verses 42 to 47

A vision to see all our members and attendees involved in the ministry of the church as they are gifted, regularly attending worship, meetings and being fully committed to serving Christ in the local Church.

 

A CHURCH BUILT ON THE WORD OF GOD

2 Timothy Chapter 3 verse 16 &

James Chapter 5 verses 13 to 18

A vision to for the Church to have a firm foundation built on Scripture, encouraging our people to value and use their Bibles, and to continue to grapple with God's Word in our regular Bible Study meetings, exploring God's teachings on healing, wholeness, the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, and much, much more.

Word of God

 

Unity

PRAYER - Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 18

To develop our united and individual prayer lives, bringing us all towards a greater understanding of our call and relationship with our heavenly Father.

 

Home Group

FELLOWSHIP through HOME GROUPS

Home Groups help us to build our relationships and prayer lives with God and with one another in a less formal setting. We want to work on developing and building our network of groups to build and enrich the whole life, work and ministry of the church.

 

WORKING TOGETHER to

develop the LEADERSHIP TEAM

to ensure that the pastoral needs of the Church are met alongside the continual spiritual growth and development of the Pastor, Assistant Pastor, the Deacons and the Pastoral Team.

 Holy Spririt

 

Team work

GIFTS and TALENTS -

1 Corinthians Chapter 12 verse 12

We aim to enable and empower people to develop and use their natural and spiritual gifts and talents to enrich and grow effective team-work in the life and work of the Church.

 

A GIVING CHURCH WHICH IS FAITHFUL IN TITHING.

Malachi Chapter 3 verses 8 to 12

bringing our 10% into the storehouse, to be able to release people from financial worry as they give themselves to the Lord's work and to support the outreach of our fellowship.

 Tithing

 

The Good Shepherd

John Chapter 10 verse 14 & 15
"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me — just as the Father knows me and I know the Father — and I lay down my life for the sheep."

Readings taken from The Holy Bible: New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, by International Bible Society.

Matthew Chapter 28 v 19 to 20.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

Mark Chapter 9 verse 37.

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.

Acts Chapter 2 verses 42 - 47.

They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

2 Timothy Chapter 3 verse 16 & 17.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

James Chapter 5 verses 13 to 18.

Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.

Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 18.

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

1 Corinthians Chapter 12 v 12.

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ.

Malachi Chapter 3 vs 8 to 12.

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' "In tithes and offerings.
9 You are under a curse — the whole nation of you — because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the Lord Almighty. "Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land," says the Lord Almighty.