Renew Vision Update Feb 09

Last year St Jude's launched our Renew Vision - To Seek the spiritual renewal of inner northern Melbourne, our City and the World. Read more here.



I thought it was time to update some of our progress in Vision implementation.

Here are some of the things that are underway:

• We have made prayer a priority for the Vision and have re-launched our monthly prayer meetings as "Renew Prayer" where we focus in on aspects of the Vision each month. Last Monday there were 50 people at the meeting. We want to encourage each one to bring a friend next month. All of our leaders are expected to be part of these gatherings.
• We wanted to put some staff resources into raising up leaders, training and global mission, and so we appointed John Sugars as Assistant Vicar on Jan 1st to work 3 days a week in this area.
• We appointed Tim Patrick to the 5pm Congregation to help that part of our ministry re-focus on reaching the many young urban professionals in the inner north of Melbourne. He was commissioned on Sunday Feb 1st.
• We are currently reviewing the "governance structures" of St Jude's so that we have better accountability and reporting structures and a clearer idea what everyone in oversight ministries is supposed to be doing. The team is meeting this week and a report will come to the Vestry in a few months time.
• We are holding a lunch meeting for other church leaders in the Inner North of Melbourne to share some of our hopes and hopefully launch a prayer movement.
• We are working hard to launch a new St Jude's Website for better communication.

There are lots of other plans in place for 2009 and each team is working hard on their Vision goals.

Please pray for Spiritual Renewal - first for our church, and then for our World.