Our Mission 

The Trafford Circuit and its churches aims to be an inclusive, justice seeking and welcoming.

We will do this by the following means (taken from The Methodist Churches God for All Strategy and the criteria for New Places for New People)

Being a Church for Everyone 

• Meeting people where they are
• Starting Christian Communities in new places
• Welcoming new people to new places - Makers Nook and Telugu fellowship
• Working and speaking for social justice - The Vine and Altrincham - People Seeking Asylum, Foodbanks, Cornerstone, Timperley
• New expressions of worship  - New Song Cafe - Altrincham, Lego Church - Altrincham, Story Church - The Avenue, Breakfast Church - Cornerstone, Altrincham, 

• Equipping us to share our story
• Being online as well as in person - Online Worship - Zoom most evening services, weekly recorded video and streaming new song cafe
• Being present in the community eg at Festivals - attendance at pride Altrincham, Stretford, Partington Festival, Altrincham Festival, Marathon, 
• Opportunities for gentle faith conversations - through coffee mornings, weekly lunches and coffee and chat - mission enablers to be available 
• Schools and Uniformed organisations - GB and BB at Altrincham, Cornerstone and Sevenways, Youth Group Sunday Evening, Holiday Clubs - Altrincham, Timperley and Cornerstone, Messy Church, Timperley, The Village, Story Church - The Avenue
• 3 Generate - attended last 4 years and will continue to encourage our youth and enable active participation. 

• Learning to lead together - shared leadership with lay volunteers and employees and ordained colleagues.
• Prioritising outreach
• Coaching - all employees will receive coaching
• Basing all decisions for finance/property on these missional aims - mission at the centre, in line with ensuring our property is fit purpose and environmentally sound we will ensure our mission aims re met and properties released to ensure our missional aims are realised.

• Studying the Methodist Way of Life
• Listening to ideas, especially from young people
• Having prayer, worship and theological conversations as central to our being - Looking deeper, bible study groups, advent and lent sessions 
• Ecumenical witness - active engagement in churches together in Hale, Timperley, Sale and Stretford and Urmston