Nexus - building a multicoloured future
A transformative shift is taking place in our family of churches and at the centre of this shift is the Multicoloured Church Initiative, a strategic initiative designed to foster ethnic diversity. The Biblical picture of diversity is one which brings glory to God through reconciling and unifying peoples from every tribe, language, people and nation.

But the church in the West has often taken a 'colour blind' or 'monocultural' approach toward building community and our desire is to move beyond this and enable the growth of communities which actively celebrate and integrate diverse cultural heritages.

Nexus - is a regular leadership gathering organised by the Multicoloured Church Initiative, serving our family of churches by gathering existing and emerging multi-ethnic leaders within our family. It's a safe place for leaders of colour or ethnic diversity to share experiences, discuss the unique challenges they face and to support one another. Nexus also gathers those who want to grow in understanding of these challenges.

The Multicoloured Church Initiative is overseen by Raj Saha and a team of others. Raj is based at Jubilee Church Teesside and has authored a number of papers and hosts the Nexus gatherings. Other key voices include Blessan Babu (City Church Sheffield & Family of Grace Oman), Chris Onyedinma (Jubilee Church Teesside), and Owen Hylton (Beacon Church & author of The Reconciled Church).

This and other initiatives grew out of 'Vision 2030' - we believe God is calling us to release multiple apostolic teams in dozens of nations, some where we are already working, some new. We want to partner with hundreds of local churches in these nations, serving them and catching them up in apostolic mission. Finally, we want to mobilise and release thousands of believers, to make a difference where they live and work.

One of the out-workings of this vision is the desire to see churches across the nations which better reflect the 'one new humanity' which the Bible speaks of. We acknowledge that many of our churches, particularly in Western contexts, have historically been 'monocultural' or 'colour blind' and recognise that one of the ways we can tackle this is to provide training and networking for existing and emerging leaders as we seek to build churches which are multi-ethnic communities and which better reflect the communities in which they are based.