Our lives are often in constant motion. At Collective, we hope to pause, gather, and truly see one another. We meet regularly at the table—a place of nourishment, centred on relationship where space never runs out.
Collective exists to point beyond ourselves, inviting the people of our towns and villages into a living encounter with the person of Jesus through our shared life together—to be a sign and a foretaste of God’s plan for creation.
We are a collective of people from all walks and stages of life. An eclectic gathering of young and old, coming together to explore new ways of joining God’s story in our towns and villages. Our stories, backgrounds, and interests are varied. But we are held together by one common bond:
WE BELIEVE THAT GOD’S GRACE IN JESUS IS THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS ALL OF LIFE.
So wherever you are on your spiritual journey, whether you are committed to following Jesus Christ, are skeptical, or are just mildly curious about Christianity, we welcome you.
What is a
MicroChurch?
A microchurch is a local community of God’s people seeking to love God and its neighbours by participating in God’s mission in a simple and relational way in its context. In other words, it’s the church in micro form!
Microchurches find their purpose and identity in being God’s sent ones. That missional grounding shapes their worship, discipleship, and life together in their neighbourhoods. They usually meet in one another’s homes, often sharing a meal in the context of their worship gathering.
Leadership is circular rather than triangular, and the integrity, posture, and accountability of the primary facilitators is critical for the healthy formation of the community.
As a missional community, microchurch members commit to postures and practices in their ordinary, everyday lives that help them discern and participate in God’s mission right where they live.
This more intimate and informal context creates space for authentic relationships, personal and communal spiritual growth, organic contextual engagement, and intentional daily missional living, all of which are often more difficult in larger congregational settings.
We seek to create real belonging for those looking for deeper spiritual meaning while equipping each other to be full-hearted disciples on mission in God’s world. we purposely keep it simple so that following jesus stays central in our life together.
We are less like a corporation and more like a community, less like an institution and more like a family. You won’t find a huge list of programmes at Collective but you will find a gathering of people learning how to love one another and love our neighbourhoods.
Our story is about a people desiring to be centred around Christ. Many of us come from
backgrounds where our involvement in church led us to burn out in the meeting culture or disillusionment with the one day a week culture.
We see belief as a dynamic lived out within reality, which doesn’t translate well into a few paragraphs on a website. The sad truth is, there are days when our lives express our belief in God, and there are other days when our beliefs are merely empty statements we live in spite of.
Ultimately, you can find our actual beliefs in the lived out expressions of our collective lives.
And it’s something that ultimately we aspire to believe … not just in our hearts and minds, but in the way that we live in this world.
The way of Jesus is a lifestyle of holistic healing for individuals, families, neighbourhoods and nations. To follow this way is the countercultural road of limitless forgiveness, radical acceptance, nonviolent peacemaking, abundant generosity and sacrificial love.
Salvation isn’t a contractual relationship of filling in the right theological answers or behaving the correct way, but an ongoing covenantal relationship of integrity with our Source, Creator, God or Ultimate Reality.
This understanding can move us away from religious systems, meritocracies or worthiness ladders as our pathway to God as we understand that union with God simply ‘is’ because of Jesus. In this way, salvation is about your NOW life, not your afterlife.
We must never confuse the Kingdom of God with the kingdoms of this world. God’s Kingdom is power under, not power over; invitation, not coercion; service, not consumption.
As a community of people, committed to be a benefit and blessing to the world, we welcome all persons to participate in the life of our community.
God doesn’t cause suffering, but redeems it. And calls us to join in the work of renewing, reconciling and redeeming all things.
The future is open and full of possibilities. We must embrace the awesome role we are invited to play in it.