West Swindon and The Lydiards Church Partnership

Declaration of Intent

D1. The Covenant

We, the members of the West Swindon & The Lydiards Church Partnership, reflecting the traditions of the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches, agree to the following Covenant :

We affirm our common faith in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, according to the Old and New Testaments, and as expressed in the Apostles and Nicene Creeds. We rejoice in the wide variety of our Christian heritage, and thank God for the opportunities He gives us to grow together. Believing we are called by God to serve Him in the world, we commit ourselves to that calling - to “BE the People of God and EXTEND the Kingdom of God throughout West Swindon & The Lydiards”.

We specifically commit ourselves prayerfully :

to seek to understand more clearly the Vision of God and His calling to grow His kingdom here
to discover more from the Scriptures about the theological basis for our unity-in-mission, and its practical consequences
to conform ourselves to the values of Jesus, as enshrined in his teaching on discipleship and our ‘Declaration of Intent’
to share together in missionary outreach to the people that God leads us into contact with through our daily lives
to serve all the people of West Swindon & The Lydiards with the same unconditional covenantal love that God has for them.

This Covenant will be reviewed every 7 years, as determined by the Sponsoring Body.

The Covenanted Local Churches are :

All Saints Lydiard Millicent,
St.Mary’s Lydiard Tregoze,
Holy Trinity Shaw,
Toothill Church, and
Westlea Church.

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