St Luke's Church Eccleshill, Bradford, UK

Our vision for St Luke's Church

What is our church all about, what is is trying to do, and where is it going?

Reaching a Vision

Many Anglicans think we already know what church is all about. After all, we've been doing it since 1848 - a lot longer than you've been having hot dinners. But that's not good enough for God's instrument for reaching a world which changes as time goes on.

Only God can give genuine vision. A vision reached by purely human effort would make us into an organisation but not into the Church of Jesus Christ!

It would be nice to present on this page a definite mission statement of our vision, our goals and objectives as a church, and the means by which we hope to reach the place we hope to be. But we are only part way there, and it would be wrong to give the impression that we have arrived. We are still on the move.

Our Logo

In Summer 2000 we adopted the following logo, after a period of receiving suggestions from members of our church:

The original design was that the shape held in the hands would be the parish boundaries. The parish of Eccleshill is roughly circular, encompassing parts of the BD2 and BD10 post-code areas, and the single church building lies roughly in the geographic centre. So we simplified the design a bit. We want to say our church's purpose is

to lift the people of Eccleshill to God in prayer, and
to help the people of the parish to receive the support of God's loving hands, expressed to us through Jesus Christ his Son.

Vision Statement

In Summer 2001 we asked people to choose some statements about what we wanted our church to be like (following a diocesan-wide call from the then bishop). From this emerged our four key points about our vision for St Luke's Church:

We want our church to be

united in Jesus,
focussed on Jesus,
showing love,

welcoming all equally.

We looked at a number of examples of different statements, and following these we felt we wanted to use the name of our church as a diagram to show these:

We're grateful to the ideas of St Cuthbert Wrose for helping us to see these ideas, and following our statement for our church, St Luke's CE(C) Primary School adopted a similar logo.

Where next?

We try to keep our statement up to date, and we also try to make our church like we want it to be. Please be patient with us, as we aren't there yet.

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Home Page. Bradford Diocese. Other pages: find us, usual services, diary, noticeboard, magazine. Contact us.	Our vision for St Luke's Church What is our church all about, what is is trying to do, and where is it going? Reaching a Vision Many Anglicans think we already know what church is all about. After all, we've been doing it since 1848 - a lot longer than you've been having hot dinners. But that's not good enough for God's instrument for reaching a world which changes as time goes on. Only God can give genuine vision. A vision reached by purely human effort would make us into an organisation but not into the Church of Jesus Christ! It would be nice to present on this page a definite mission statement of our vision, our goals and objectives as a church, and the means by which we hope to reach the place we hope to be. But we are only part way there, and it would be wrong to give the impression that we have arrived. We are still on the move. Our Logo In Summer 2000 we adopted the following logo, after a period of receiving suggestions from members of our church: The original design was that the shape held in the hands would be the parish boundaries. The parish of Eccleshill is roughly circular, encompassing parts of the BD2 and BD10 post-code areas, and the single church building lies roughly in the geographic centre. So we simplified the design a bit. We want to say our church's purpose is to lift the people of Eccleshill to God in prayer, and to help the people of the parish to receive the support of God's loving hands, expressed to us through Jesus Christ his Son. Vision Statement In Summer 2001 we asked people to choose some statements about what we wanted our church to be like (following a diocesan-wide call from the then bishop). From this emerged our four key points about our vision for St Luke's Church: We want our church to be united in Jesus, focussed on Jesus, showing love, welcoming all equally. We looked at a number of examples of different statements, and following these we felt we wanted to use the name of our church as a diagram to show these: We're grateful to the ideas of St Cuthbert Wrose for helping us to see these ideas, and following our statement for our church, St Luke's CE(C) Primary School adopted a similar logo. Where next? We try to keep our statement up to date, and we also try to make our church like we want it to be. Please be patient with us, as we aren't there yet.
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