The material is designed to strengthen a sense of identity, encourage connectedness and community across our movement, and informs decision-making in leadership.
Over four topic-based sessions (Jesus-Centred, Community, Mission, Freedom), participants reflect on the values that underpin the historical and cultural backbone of our movement. Together, you’ll explore how these values impact attitudes, practices, and decisions in our unique contexts.
Each session comes with a five-minute video and video script, PowerPoint slides, a Facilitator guide, discussion guides, as well as sermon starters and additional reading.
The Values Project is a thought-provoking, guided discussion designed to help organisations, churches, and groups talk and learn about their identity and values as Australian Baptists.
The material is designed to strengthen a sense of identity, encourage connectedness and community across our movement, and informs decision-making in leadership.
Anyone! There’s no training or prerequisites required. A Facilitator could be a small group leader, Pastor, ministry leader, school teacher — the list goes on.
While most people take it one session at a time, all four can definitely be covered in one sitting. The videos only go for five minutes and the subsequent discussion can go however long you want it to go for (we suggest a minimum of 30 minutes). To address all four episodes in one sitting, allow at least two hours. If time is limited, divide into four groups and have each group explore one episode each, and then report back to the whole group.
Australian Baptist Ministries acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to lands, waters and communities and the way they have cared for the Lord’s good creation. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present. As Christians, we commit ourselves to pray and work for justice and reconciliation with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia.