Lightwave Community

The Lightwave Community was begun as part of the Growing in God in the Countryside Project, funded by the Church Commissioners from 2019-2024.  The project aims to enable rural communities to flourish, and we believe this is God’s calling for the church in the Suffolk countryside. The vision is:

• to provide a canopy of prayer, focussed on mission, for the county of Suffolk
• to eplore untrodden pathways by providing a ssafe space for experimentation, learning, and responsiveness to missional opportunity
• to encourage small groups as places to grow disciples and do mission together, as part of a growing mixed ecology of church in the Diocese.

 The main carrier of the vision is the Lightwave Community:

The Lightwave community is a is a dispersed church community within the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, made up of small disciple-making groups and fresh expressions of church which embrace shared practices and have a focus on innovative mission.  The name comes from the idea of light waves being the way in which light spreads into dark places.  It is committed to shining the light of Jesus through Christian witness and practical service: groups are especially involved in combatting isolation and poverty, engage in youth work, care for creation and agricultural chaplaincy. 

The Lightwave community is governed by the Bishop's Mission Order in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and functions as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation with a Board of Trustees.

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