Crosslinks Great Britain Strategy Document  - (Dec 2004) 

A. Crosslinks Objective and Distinctive

  • Biblical

  • Principally Anglican

  • Everything within prime focus.

B. Crosslinks Fundamental Priorities

  • Frontier Opportunities

  • Training Trainers.

C. Current Means of Realising Priorities

  • Mission Partners

  • Associate Mission Partners

  • Study Partners (BEST)

  • Grants (Projects)

  • Short-Term Mission (Smile and Next)

  • Short-term Schools of Biblical Training (SBTs).

D. General Missiological Principles

  • Mission is mission wherever it takes place.

  • Our desire to serve local churches wherever they exist

  • We will always seek to foster local church ownership of mission engagements, independent of Crosslinks.

E. Pertinent Factors (which we would seek to build upon)

  • Historic involvement in training for mission in integral way in Britain.

  • History of involvement in work with those of other religious faiths (Faith to Faith & other faiths workers).

  • Wide network of churches in Britain involved in mission outside of Britain through Crosslinks and concerned for mission in Britain.

  • Current events in the Church of England and Global Anglican Communion together with widespread decline in declared Christian allegiance in Britain.

  • People who have lost the gospel message themselves are unlikely to engage in God’s worldwide mission.

  • Many churches in Britain, who are involved in worldwide mission, now have opportunities for the cross-cultural mission on their own doorstep.

F. Crosslinks’ Potential Engagements in the British Scene over the next 5 years.

  • Other Faiths Work. There remains much to be done in encouraging British Christians to reach out to those of other religious faiths in Britain. We would seek to build upon the work of Faith to Faith in equipping British churches and the work of mission partners working amongst other faiths in Britain.

  • Training for Mission. In addition to our historic involvement in Trinity College Bristol we are pleased to be invited to contribute from our experience in Oak Hill Theological College.

  • New Church Plants and Other Ventures. We are being asked to help churches engage in mission to unreached groups in Britain. Crosslinks would seek to do anything possible to encourage new initiatives in reaching the lost in Britain.