VITALITY
Working to see disciple makers grow fully into their healthiest, whole selves in order to see God movements spread across the UK and beyond!
Vitality means life! It conveys the purpose of all things to live, grow, and develop.
Novo UK’s Vitality team exists to help each Novo member live at full capacity in all areas of our lives: spiritual and physical health, our relationship with ourselves, relationships with family and close friends, ministry, and as healthy members of society.
At the core of all development and growth – or vitality – is the transformative power of connection. We are relational beings, made from and for a relational God. After all, God is “triune,” a word which refers to the mutual and continuous relationship between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Our team focuses development around this core reality – connection – to help Novo UK members grow fully into the image of Christ and, in doing so, see the Kingdom come in greater fullness in their lives, spheres of influence, and to the ends of the earth.
Our development efforts concentrate on two main areas:
The inner spiritual life of individual members, conducted in their own interactive relationship with God (prayer of all kinds) and others they share the journey with (community of all kinds)
The outflowing of that growing spiritual life into members’ local contexts in forms of intentional ministry development (personal calling within team or relational settings, growing ministry skills, and professional development of all kinds)
These areas of development are addressed in two primary contexts:
Acute Care: reacting to the immediate, felt needs of members with specific responses. This may take the form of spiritual direction, counselling, inner or physical healing ministry, encouraging words or images from the Spirit, and may be done individually or in small group settings.
Proactive or Intentional Development: responding to the areas of shared growth all members have in common, as well as specific needs of teams within Novo UK. This looks like encouraging the growth of individual members in various forms of prayer, conducting trainings for leaders and disciple makers (like E4M - link to landing page), working cross-culturally, and facilitating both individual and group discernment processes. Our strategy over the next season is to grow this list of reusable tools to cover all areas of holistic development.
Our passion is to see all members of Novo UK grow fully into their healthiest, whole selves for the sake of our shared calling to see God movements spread across the UK and beyond!