Vision and Values

Serving the Church, Reaching the World

New Word Alive’s aim can be summed up in the strap line, ‘Serving the Church, Reaching the World’.  Our desire is to resource individuals and churches and so empower them in their mission to their local communities and the wider world.  As we do that we will be guided by the following principles:

Bible

Our belief in the Bible as God’s living word and our supreme authority means that the Bible will be central in all our activities.  The core programme of New Word Alive will be Biblical exposition, supported by Bible Overviews and guides to Bible handling.

Engagement with God

Our belief that a personal relationship with God is the centre of human existence will lead us to encourage a real engagement with God through all that happens at New Word Alive.  We believe that God will be personally addressing us and changing us by his Spirit through his Word.  Given that, we want to help each other respond to Him in an appropriate way, whether it be prayer, worship, personal commitment or a change of life-direction. 

Training

Our belief that God gifts and works through all his people means we will place a high priority on training.  We will seek to provide seminars and training tracks that will help individuals discover and develop their own gifts.  With a huge variety of gifts from preaching to personal relationships, or children’s work to world mission, we will open up possibilities, provide examples and encouragement and seek to motivate and equip God’s people to serve him and his world.