Open Door Church : Our Year

Family is a core value at the Open Door Church. We recognise that God has brought us together as a local expression of His worldwide family. He has called us into relationship - with Himself, with one another and with those we encounter in our daily lives. The hallmark of these relationships is to be love.

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." John 13:34

In this year of 2010 we want to focus on FAMILY:

strengthening the Open Door Church family
strengthening families within the Open Door Church

We consider family to be a place of:

SECURITY - a people to belong to
STRENGTH AND ENCOURAGEMENT- as we journey together
OPENNESS AND HONESTY - a place to be real and let God do His work
GROWTH - vision-focussed health and fruitfulness
RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCIPLINE - everyone playing their part

We will also continue to advance in those areas we emphasised for 2009:

DISCIPLESHIP - strengthening our foundations of faith in God and growing in our daily walk with Him
PRAYER - strengthening our personal and corporate prayer life so that we may capture more of God's heart and prepare the way for us to move forward with God's resources
SUNDAY TEACHING SERIES - providing Bible based teaching for living God's way and helping us learn to apply it
BUILDINGS - acquiring properties to facilitate the work God has given us to do
STAFF - increasing the workforce with more volunteers and paid staff

"I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14