A more Christ-like Church: Growing new congregations

Filmed at the 2019 common vision conference at High Leigh, this film provides a short update about growing new congregations. Our churches are doing faithful work and serving their congregations, but there are people, neighbourhoods, communities and networks in each area of the diocese that are unreached and untouched. We also know that a population at least the size of Edinburgh will move into this diocese over the next fifteen years. Some of these people will be living and working far from any traditional church. Others may never have stepped into a Church of England church before. So, this plan is about serving people where they are and where they live by growing new congregations of all shapes and sizes. It’s a plan that needs and involves all of us if it is to succeed. It’s a plan that could eventually grow as many as 750 new congregations in our diocese. Find out more at www.oxford.anglican.org/commonvision or see Pathways magazine for regular updates about our common vision for a more Christ-like Church for the sake of God's world