Mission Hubs

What are Mission Hubs?

Beginning with 13 places and communities from across the diocese and church traditions, Mission Hubs are places which have been recognised as missionally healthy parishes, working across all ages, and are ready now to establish creative partnerships with churches around them to offer resource, people and expertise. Each one will look different depending on local need; there is no one way of being a Mission Hub. Most importantly, they are leaders and communities committed to working creatively with other Christians in their area to share the good news of Jesus Christ, that all may flourish and grow.

Mission Hubs are one of the outworkings of our vision commitment to invest in creative partnerships for local mission. Find out more about the whole Making Jesus Known vision and strategy here.

The infographic above demonstrates how the investment into the 13 initial Mission Hubs will impact on the areas around them.

Where are the phase one Mission Hubs and what will they offer?

Beaminster: St Mary’s	Discipleship: Deepening discipleship so that more disciples can make and encourage other disciples, leading to further spiritual growth and attendance growth. Missional Leaders: Raising up new pioneering missional leaders (lay and clergy) that are prepared to be sent to work in other places. To support church leaders in deepening & refreshing their own faith. Missing Generations: Creating new forms of ministry and mission to missing generations for churches to become more intergenerational. Investment into children, families and young people ministry through church, school and household engagement. Foundations for Mission: Strategically tailored interventions that missionally primes churches and benefices to be ready to be phase 2 Mission Hubs. Creative Partnerships in Local Mission: Plans to plant, graft, partner and walk alongside other parishes to see growth beyond the initial mission hubs. This cultivates a culture with an intent to build relationships and to partner with others.
Royal Wootton Bassett: The Light Church
Blandford Forum Parish Church
Devizes: St James, Southbroom
Trowbridge: St James
Melksham: St Michael’s
Corfe Mullen: St Nicholas
Poole: St Mary's Longfleet
Salisbury: St Francis
Salisbury: St Paul’s
Weymouth: St John’s, Hope House & Emmanuel
Weymouth: Littlemoor Ridgeway team
Weymouth: All Saints, Wyke Regis

What next?

These 13 places are just the first step: these are places that are ready now to invest their own resources on top of national church resources to develop their ministry and partner with others around them.

Over the next 2-3 years, other potential mission hubs will be identified for a phase 2.

If you’d like to find out more about Mission Hubs, contact Stuart Britton

National Church funding supports 13 local Mission Hubs in Diocese of Salisbury

13 urban areas, market towns, and rural villages are to be supported with money from the national church to develop Mission Hubs, as part of our diocesan vision to transform and grow the local church.

Mission Hubs

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