#Creating Spaces and Places - PART 2

We are in reach 23. Well done, little bit of a pause

but World arm and what is reads, 23, if you're visiting or you

haven't been here. But for the past couple of weeks

reach last year, I launched reach, which is essentially our

10-year Vision. If you like to extend our reach

to reach the Lost, thank you, Edward Cathy over there and this

really is something that we've done throughout the life of this

church for 35 plus years because we recognize, that is the

mission of the church, isn't it? The mission?

Of the church is to proclaim the gospel of Christ in word and in

deed and so that is what we are doing and I launched reach last

year. And how are we going to reach

the lost by what creating Well done.

Excellent. That's exactly how we do it yet.

It's thank you. People are pointing to the

greeted by their Mark. Yes, I know.

But you you at least engaged? Well, that's creative spaces and

places. So last year we did some amazing

spaces. Didn't we add the brand new

youth Auditorium that we use throughout the week?

The new Venture Land space and you Treasure Chest Ministry

which is our special educational needs Ministry many other

spaces. We launched that I'm probably

going to forget in this. Moment, but we did lots of

things and then places as we launch a new multi site model,

what does that mean? You know, historically, we have

planted autonomous, churches out.

And we said, right off you go, go start a church, independent

churches. But what we're doing is what's

called multi site. Where essentially, we set up

different geographical locations.

One Church, many sites that we can extend our borders Beyond

this building and as you guys all know Hatfield launched last

year with our site pass, Has a general.

This is the fourth week that are meeting on a Sunday.

Would you bless them? Lord.

And we just seen so much fruit from that, which is so exciting.

And so, this year, I recapped, in terms of spaces and places,

we looked last week at spaces, the brand-new connect Lounge

that, we're going to be building this year and I love the way

Richard kind of position that for us.

It's like the whole, when you go to someone's house, they welcome

you in the hall. They take your coat.

Would you like a drink? And that's what we don't have in

this place. People will To the huge

building. The felt overwhelmed is

difficult to connect. We have a welcome desk that

people don't even realize, is there.

And so it connect Lounge, will be can be intentional on hosting

people. Well, and connecting people and

having a pastoral component of that, in that space and and the

Bookshop as well, all of those things.

And then we spend time with the Edward looking at the brand new

Young Adult Ministry that we launched in, which is really

exciting. We're going to be launching a

Sunday evening service. Probably September, although

timing to be confirmed and that's really exciting.

Plus a ton of other initiatives as we focus on our young adults,

18 to 25. And some of those stats Edward

was sharing with regards to the thousands that we have on our

doorstep in the University. I met some, some students here

this morning for the first time from that very University, how

many 30,000? I think you said, 32,000,

apologies, I missed that 32,000 on our doorstep, and that is

really exciting. And so that brings us to today,

which is the places component of reach 23 and it's worth saying

that next week. We're going to look at everyone

gets to play, how we can be involved in reach a 23, because

as is of our Alum, a prophetess who spoke to us as a church

before covid. Said, you know, let there's a

lot of resources in here that need to run, open the gates and

let them run. You know this can't be done

without you. The reason we did are all that

we did last year was because Because of you.

And so we're going to be looking at that next week.