Our Vision is to …

Know and love God, and to participate in God’s mission of reconciliation to his whole creation.

Our Mission is to …

Is to build vital worshipping communities: communities whose evangelism, teaching, service, and loving spirit prepare the community of God’s people to fulfil ...

The Great Commandment of Christ to …

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself; and ...

The Great Commission of Christ to …

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded. 

Our Challenge is incredibly exciting.  Just imagine the possibilities - difficulties and challenges yes – of being able to tap into the creativity of God to bring people into the fullness of the humanity that he intended and therefore into relationship with him; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Through the vision of the CEEC, God has given us the freedom to be agents of change.  The CEEC was founded on the vision of the convergence of the streams of Christian spirituality in the life and worship of the Church which have existed for two thousand years; the sacramental, the evangelical and the charismatic.   

The CEEC is a Convergence Church       

What is Convergence?

The Sacramental is God’s giving of himself to us in Christ, his life flowing into us to enable us to give our lives freely to him in worship and service; us having the privilege of participating in the very life of the Trinity. Sacra-mentum, meaning 'sacred action'. This life flows from God though the sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist by faith so that our lives become sacraments to be lived out in the world.  As we pray together following the Lord’s Supper:

"Father, we give ourselves to you as a living sacrifice through Jesus Christ our Lord. Send us into the world in the power of your Spirit to proclaim your life through ours"

The Evangelical is indivisibly linked with the Spirit and Sacrament.  Evangelical is not simply the biblical preaching of the Word of God, it is as Saint Paul said to the Corinthian Church, “For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” (1 Cor 11:26)  To be truly evangelical one is being the messenger of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the revelation of God himself.  If the Church is being truly evangelical it will be a prophetic messenger to the world and the Word of God will not return empty. 

The Charismatic is the grace of God working in the life of the Church.  The life of God flows through the Church through the work of the Holy Spirit. The sacramental life flows from God to his people by the power of the Spirit and the essence of this flow is Love, the very essence of God.  The charismatic is the fulfilment of sacramental life in response to the prompting of the Spirit and truly proclaims the power of the Lord’s life, death and resurrection. The Church in the power of the Spirit should expect signs and wonders through its ministry. 

There is no clear distinction between the sacramental, evangelical and charismatic, one without the other would be incomplete, they flow and weave together, serving one another, just as the three persons of the Trinity are complete within themselves.