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We welcome feed back and are constantly seeking to make sure this site meets the needs of those who use it. Please contact us using the button on each page which will link you to the staff member responsible for the particular area of work you read about.Church in Society, 2-3 Bedford Place,
Maidstone, Kent ME16 8JB
tel: 01622 755014 
Church in Society - Robert Runcie House
1. What we do Church in Society is a charitable company, a department of the Church of England Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester. It brings together a wide range of activity, focused on the desire to see all people and communities experience life in its fullness. This is a gracious gift of God, who creates, transforms and sustains lives and relationships. Church in Society works to enable the church's effective contribution to community, economic and social transformation, so that the full potential of all communities may be realised. Transformation is about recognising the hope and possibilities that come through dreaming dreams, struggling through difficult dilemmas, taking action, and celebrating the steps taken, however small they may be. 2. Our charitable framework The formal purpose of Church in Society is: to promote the role of the Church of England in Society by way of any charitable purpose for the benefit of the Community in the Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester and surrounding areas and in particular to advance education in social and moral responsibility, to relieve poverty and distress and to provide moral welfare.
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3. Our distinctive values
We set out to shape and evaluate our work against these criteria:
- raising awareness of the experience of people and their communities in their contexts, respecting their insights and story, gifts and needs;
- advocating alongside those whose contribution may be unheard, unseen or unvalued, or marginalised by society, cultures or systems;
- acting to make a positive difference by working with local churches and communities, working with partners from faith, voluntary, public and private sectors, and connecting the local with the strategic and global;
- discerning and witnessing to the active redeeming presence of God in all we do;
- modelling best practice in the management of staff and volunteers.
4. The strategy
a) I was a stranger and you invited me in (Matthew 25:35)
Release the potential of individuals to acknowledge diversity, respect identity, and thereby contribute and belong to flourishing communities.
b) He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives (Luke 4:18)
Expose decisions and structures in communities, local cultures and the church that disadvantage individuals and minority groups, and offer resources so that their voices may be heard and presence respected.
c) Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. (Matthew 25:40)
Prepare the ground and provide expertise that equips churches to interpret and connect with their local context as opportunities for ministry and mission.
Our 2008 Annual Report
www.canterbury.anglican.org
www.rochester.anglican.org
www.cofe.anglican.org
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