Awards
As a church community that seeks to LIVE for Jesus wholeheartedly, LOVE one another deeply, LEADing to transformed lives and communities, we continue to step out into new areas we feel God calling us into. We are thrilled to have been recognised for several awards in different areas.
Carbon Net-Zero Demonstrator Church
As part of a wider project of building improvement works, St Luke’s became a Net Zero Carbon Programme Demonstrator Church.
As a church we have a strong vision benchmarked by two simple questions; Will what we do help people come to faith and grow in faith in Jesus? We quickly realised we needed warm and welcoming community spaces within our building.
We are so incredibly grateful to have received a grant of £50,000 from the Net Zero Programme and £36,000 from the Benefact Trust to help us install heating systems that keep our community spaces warm and welcoming, and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
To find out more, watch the video from the Church of England, filmed at St Luke’s about this essential work.
Fact sheet on our heating system at St Luke’s:
St. Luke’s Maidstone Heating Installation FAQ Sheet (Aug 26)
Resourcing Church in the Church of England
St Luke’s, Maidstone is a resourcing church in the Diocese of Canterbury.
This resourcing church DNA sits within the discipleship priority of planting and multiplication (see our Discipleship Priorities for more info).
“A resourcing church is designated by its bishop to be a church-planting (revitalising) church which trains leaders to resource and support mission across a diocese.”
Bishop Ric Thorpe – ‘City Centre Resource Churches’
We are very grateful to the national church and the diocesan investment programme for all the funding we have received to date.
Growing Hope Gold Award
We are thrilled to have been awarded a Growing Hope Gold Award.
The Growing Hope Accessibility Award assesses and awards not only churches’ physical accessibility but accessibility according to all varied needs.
At St. Luke’s we want everyone to be seen, heard, able to belong and join in, including those with additional needs.
To find out more about our provision specifically, please visit our Accessibility page.
Single Friendly Church Award
St Luke’s Maidstone is a Single Friendly Church. We are a community of all ages and stages, and whether you are whatever your circumstance – single, married, single again, with or without children – no matter where you’ve been or what you’ve done in life – you are welcome.
Single Friendly Church Network we’re teaming up with churches of all different traditions across the UK to inspire a movement that truly welcomes and includes single people.
ECO CHURCH BRONZE AWARD
St Luke’s is a church that loves God, and all that he has made. St Luke’s is an Eco Church and in 2018 received the A Rocha Bronze Award for our commitment to caring for God’s creation.
We believe that God made humanity in his image, as his image bearers we have a responsibility to care for and work with the good environment God has created. We are conscious of our responsibility to carefully steward the global resources that God has given us and, in particular, our impact on the environment. We want to be proactive in reducing our impact and carbon emissions so that we can be carbon neutral by 2030.
