Background

Salt & Light is an international family of churches and leaders. We developed in the early 1970s around the leadership of Barney Coombs as leaders and churches were drawn together by a common desire to see the Body of Christ grow to be all God wants it to be. This has grown into an international family of several different apostolic spheres, joined through the relationship of leaders. The core leadership of our family of churches has certain beliefs, values and commitments. This is how we want to live together in our part of the family of God! As leaders we will live according to these core commitments. We will preach and teach these commitments in our conferences and training, constantly calling up churches to them. Recent discussions on the need for greater cohesion to provide a greater degree of mobilisation for the mission God has called us to, have led to a call for greater clarity on what the Salt & Light family of churches stand for and are committed to. They describe us now – the result of walking together relationally for 25 years – and so they are also the foundation for where we want to go together. We have explored a 3-stage model, successively setting out our place in God’s wider evangelical family, within the charismatic family and our distinctive character as the Salt & Light family.

Mission

A growing number of Salt & Light leaders and churches agree that God is leading us into a new phase of our engagement in world mission. He wants us to work together to make disciples among the least reached.