Aims and Core Convictions

The Partnership exists to glorify God by:

• Multiplying ministry across the region in the form of revitalisation and church plants.
• Developing greater partnership across like-minded churches.
• Providing a thriving regional training programme beyond congregational level training.

Core Convictions

In addition to our shared doctrinal convictions, we share the following core ministry convictions that enable us to form and motivate us to commit to working partnerships in our region:

1. That establishing, securing and growing healthy local churches is central to God’s saving purposes in the world.
2. That the verbal message of the gospel of Christ and him crucified is the only foundation and the essential means of growth and multiplication of healthy local churches.
3. That the Word of God (the Bible) must have a real, practical and ruling centrality in the daily life of the local church.
4. That biblical exposition is the primary ministry of the word which sustains and promotes all other forms of healthy ministry (including the full range of speaking and serving ministries).
5. That working regional partnerships between local churches (that transcend denominational and other divides on the basis of core doctrinal unity) are not only possible without sinful compromise, but positively valuable in advancing the gospel and growing the church