Our Vision:

'Welcoming, vibrant and serving the community - God's love in action'.

As the church, the gathered body of Christ, caring for his creation and with a foundation for prayer, we are called to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbour as ourselves.

To inhabit this vision, our strategy is to focus on:

Discipleship

Lives and relationships are restored and transformed by God’s grace, 

Outreach

Living out and generously sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ

Serving the Community

In our homes, communities and our city.

Grace and Gentleness

As the Church, the gathered Body of Christ, caring for His creation, we are called to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbour as ourselves.

Becoming a community of God’s grace and gentleness means:

Living out and generously sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ so that lives and relationships are restored and transformed by God’s grace, in our homes, communities and our city.

Prayer

Prayer is central to our relationship with God and the delivery of our vision, which reaffirms the aspirations of the St Matthew’s prayer:

Heavenly Father, pour out your Holy Spirit upon St Matthews,
Grant us a new vision of your glory, a new experience of your power,
a new faithfulness to your Word,
a new consecration to your service so that,
through our renewed witness your Holy Name may be glorified and your Kingdom advanced,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen