1. Vision for Auckland
Action Forum
Since 1996, Christian leaders across multiple sectors,
denominations and ethnicities in Auckland under the name Vision
for Auckland have been meeting to understand God's
conversation with the city, the conversation within the
city, and how these mesh into city transformation.
This began with a core group of leaders of movements
in the city meeting once a month together as a thinktank,
an action group, and now a monthly forum for city leaders
to reflect on ideas together.
2. Events: Vision for Auckland Hui
In March 1999, many of these leaders met to present
strategies for their sector of the city and discern God's
purposes for the future. A yearly event like this is
needed. It included a manual with 2 page vision summaries
from many of the 48 sector networks. This complements
other ongoing events.
3. The Operational Team
To serve this a team is developing which includes
people who serve various apostolic leaders in the city
and are operationalising events. A coordinator and office
is needed. Their tasks include: Production of 2 monthly
calendar; coordination of the city churches and church
leaders' database; using the VfA logo for events and
movements; organisation of major gatherings of 100
leaders each year, the buildup to which enables leaders
to look at their strategy with teams of like-minded
people across the body; publishing of strategies and
vision booklets for each major network.
4. Networks
This group networked existing movements into an
integrating framework of Network Task
Forces in various sectors of the city building
relationships across the barriers (releasing brotherly
love), and developing vision and strategies (releasing
faith). These include major denominational/church sectors;
renewal movements in major denominational sectors;
specialist networks such as children, youth, societal
sectors such as business, politics, law, the arts. Each
include mainline, Catholic, evangelical and Pentecostal
leaders. Three are mentioned below.
A hui with John Dawson and meetings periodically with
leaders from the 350 ethnic churches have gradually been
building bridges between Chinese, Korean, Samoan, Tongan,
Indian etc communities in the context of the hosting into
this nation by the indigenous people.
How does the Kingdom affect the legal profession, the medical
profession, environment, education, etc. There are nuclei working in
each of these areas. This network connects these. For example, one
sector is that of business leadership. How does the kingdom of God
relate to the realities of ethical management, personnel needs,
stresses of production and creativity? The booklet at the side
represents the perspectives of a number of leaders.
The Evangelism Network
Prayer Network
Various movements that motivate prayer are connected
in the prayer network. John Fulford co-ordinates
this.
Vision
for Auckland
