Dear One and All,
Fred Pratt Green’s hymn (691 StF) ‘What shall our greeting be’ starts verse two by asking ‘What is our mission here?’ On Sunday 2nd November, 2025, following the morning service, everyone is invited to attend a special church meeting, to get to grips with Fred Pratt Green’s question. The Mint Leadership team, the stewards and I have been wrestling with the questions I originally posed back in the early summer.
The following questions are what we now wish you to consider and respond to when
we meet on the 2nd November:
1: What do you see as the mission of the Mint Methodist Church, including the
Korean congregation, over the next 5 years?
Are there ideas we might implement that we are not currently doing, in line
with this mission?
2: How are we going to make this mission happen?
What is the role of the minister in this mission, given the responsibilities of
the minister across the circuit?
How would you see the lay leadership of the Mint developing over the next 5
years?
3: What do you see as the greatest challenges to and opportunities for the mission
of the Mint?
The Meeting will gather together after the service and will divide into groups each with a facilitator drawn from the Leadership Team and the Stewards. Following discussions in the groups we will join together in a plenary session and report our findings. Those findings will be considered by the Leadership Team and stewards and the church council and wider church will be further consulted and informed as to progress being made. As part of seeking what God will have The Mint do for its mission, it is also essential we consult those who use our premises and seek what insight they may have too.
Discerning God’s call to us and seeking the Holy Spirit’s guidance will be fundamental to the fruitfulness of this undertaking. We have asked that the Wednesday Prayer group pray for this work and I ask that home groups and the wider church pray and reflect on the questions posed. Our work on this area of church life is vital and every
person in the life of The Mint needs to feel part of it.
The church will continually ask ‘What is our mission?’ During the course of Lent preachers and ministers from The Mint will reflect in their services and sermons on ‘What is God calling us to be and to do?’ Again through our worship we will reflect, as a community, on these important questions. It is significant that this is done in the context of our worship which is central to our Christian faith. At Pentecost-tide the church council will be asked to consider the proposals and recommendations from the Leadership Team and stewards. If the church council is agreed, those recommendations and proposals will be adopted and put into action. Edward Plumtre reminds us ‘Your hand O’ God has guided, your flock from age to age’ (StF 692 v.1) May we prayerfully ask that this truth is evident in our discerning the call of God to his people at
The Mint.
Every blessing,
Simon