God Sized Dream

Clovie in 2030

Vision Priorities

Our God-Sized Dream

Throughout 2020, Clovie engaged in a churchwide discernment process called the 'God Sized Dream', exploring discipleship and missional priorities for the next 5-10 years. This involved prayer and fasting, surveys, focus groups, and life group engagement.

The result was the formation of a strategic framework called the 'Vision Priorities' - Reach, Grow, Multiply, Expand, and Innovate. This booklet will walk you through each of those priorities, to hopefully provide a deeper understanding of the God Sized Dream.

If you have any questions or want to know more, please reach out to our team by emailing office@clovercrest.com.au or calling us on 8397 9400.

Reaching, Growing, Multiplying, Expanding, and Innovating for God’s Kingdom

At Clovie, we are committed to reaching people for Jesus, growing deeper in faith, multiplying leaders, expanding gatherings, and innovating with courage as we live out God’s Kingdom mission together.

  1. Mobilising each person and ministry to exist so that they introduce other people to Jesus
  2. Providing local missional opportunities (e.g. personal informal outreach, regular Alpha, Discovery Bible Study (DBS), Pathway missional initiatives, local schools, COACH, ongoing church missional initiatives like Gingerbread night)
  3. Exploring National missional opportunities
  4. Fostering International mission (e.g. ongoing missionary support, growing pipeline of sent missionaries, Pong (IJM), BWA, Compassion, H4H giving to projects
  5. Life Groups participating in our annual Reaching Beyond projects
  6. Reaching people for Jesus through our key community engagement arms will be a priority (e.g. Quench and Pathway)
  1. Creating regular and specific opportunities to Experience God (e.g. worship, prayer, bible teaching, online content, etc)
  2. Teaching and providing regular opportunities for baptism
  3. Emphasising Life Group engagement key to creating community
  4. Promoting a serving culture across the life of the church
  5. Fostering a strong discipling culture across all generations
  6. Everyone being discipled relationally by another (e.g. friend, family, discipleship team)
  7. Life groups engaging in missional practices (e.g. reaching beyond)
  8. Providing training to grow spiritually (e.g. SHAPE, Prophecy Course, etc)
  1. Developing and promoting leadership pathways across the life of the church where collaboration and alignment toward missional outcomes is developed and celebrated (e.g. Leadership Academy)
  2. Exploring and implementing an apprenticeship model across Clovie ministries (e.g. Jesus' model of 72 > 12 > 3, go deep with a few)
  3. Developing partnerships with like minded organisations (e.g. Baptist Care, ARK Fostering, Tabor Bible College, Arrow Australia, etc)
  4. Developing a strong marketplace ministry for mission (e.g. City Bible Forum, Engage, CBMC Prayer breakfast, etc)
  1. Developing Clovie Online as a thriving campus of Clovie
  2. Exploring multi site options as campuses / church plants and revitalisations
  3. Exploring other mid week missional gatherings to grow the Kingdom (e.g. retirement villages, schools, Pathway, Quench)
  4. Continuing to be intentional and relational in informal outreach in the life of the church
  5. Consider targeted groups (e.g. special needs, addictions, disabilities, mental health)

  1. Fostering a innovative culture across Clovie that ensures we fulfil our vision and mission
  2. Kingdom dreaming team formed and utilised
  3. Responding and anticipating missional needs and opportunities (e.g. natural disaster response)
  4. Developing Pathway (e.g. life skills, financial literacy, community garden) to continue to grow and innovate into their next season of ministry
  5. Developing Quench to continue to grow and innovate into their next season of ministry
  6. Being committed to being salt and light in our local schools
  7. Exploring opportunities to increase relevance to local community (e.g. Early Learning Centre (ELC), mental health, relational breakdown, etc)