Thriving churches

  • Thriving community life

    Churches that are fun to be part of, where relationships are characterised by love, care, and commitment.  

    Churches where men and women, young and old, of a variety of ethnicities and cultural backgrounds are growing as disciples of Jesus and using their God-given gifts to serve one another.  

  • Thriving devotional life

    Churches with Spirit-filled worship and passionate prayer, and a deep commitment to Scripture.  

    Churches that embody Christ-like values of humility, integrity, generosity, and grace.  

  • Thriving missional life

    Churches where people can explore questions of faith and experience God’s life-changing power, and which regularly see people become followers of Jesus.  

    Churches that look beyond themselves, seeking to multiply the life of God through planting churches and reaching the lost.

Advancing the Kingdom

  • Proclaiming the Gospel

    Representing Jesus in our communities and workplaces, living in such a way that we are good news to those around us.  

    Declaring the gospel of Jesus and demonstrating God’s Kingdom through signs and wonders. 

  • Shaping Society

    Taking a stand against poverty and injustice, and caring for the marginalised in our towns, villages and cities.  

    Contributing to the flourishing of our nation and the transformation of society.   

  • Loving the Nations

    Enjoying friendships and connections within our global family and learning and receiving from other nations and cultures. 

    Going to the nations, to serve, bless and build, and play our part in fulfilling the Great Commission.  

10-year strategic priorities

Thriving Churches 

  • Existing churches strengthened, with significant growth across the network  

  • New churches planted, including into cities 

  • Multiple hub churches established serving as bases for resourcing and sending  

  • Many leaders of all generations equipped and inspired to lead thriving churches & plant new churches 

Advancing the Kingdom 

  • A culture better reflecting the Kingdom of God in place among us, including greater supernatural life of the Spirit  

  • Many leaders equipped and inspired to advance God’s Kingdom in all spheres of life 

  • Greater connections with other networks and denominations for the good of our nation  

  • New nations touched with Kingdom life and churches supported and planted in other nations  

2-year strategic priorities

  • Culture and values  

    • Identification of aspects of our culture which need addressing and changing to see our 10-year priorities realised 

  • Leadership  

    • Identification of leaders to take on upcoming church leadership roles 

    • Clear strategy and pipeline for leadership training in place  

    • Intentional training and identifying of leaders to oversee other churches 

  • Church plants 

    • Current church plants strengthened 

    • Next church plants and potential leaders identified and preliminary work underway 

  • Nations  

    • Identification of nations to be serving, connecting with and resourcing 

These 2-year priorities are to run from Feb 2025-Jan 2027, after which a fresh set of 2-year priorities begin.

Wider Family

Salt and Light Advance is part of a growing international family of churches - Salt & Light International - across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The family has grown into an international affiliation of several different apostolic spheres (regions), joined through the relationship of leaders.