2030 will loosely mark 2,000 years since Jesus of Nazareth began a public ministry that has changed the planet in a way that is still unmatched by any other figure from human history.

The Bible says that Jesus began his public-facing ministry when he was around 30, and most agree it lasted two and a half, to three years before his revolutionary way of being got him executed by those in authority. Christians all over the globe for the past 2,000 years believe that not only did Jesus minister then, but that he rose from the dead (as he said he would) and that people today can know him, have a living, transformative relationship with him, and live in unity with God, each other, and ourselves through him. This is the living experience of around 2.6 billion people across the earth today.

JC33 will loosely follow the timeline of Jesus' life and ministry over a three year period, marking it with key events and opportunities both centrally and as individual churches.

We will launch things using Christmas 2030 (the very end of that year), meaning that the timeline will last 2031, 2032 and to Pentecost 2033. Two and a half years.

There will be just 5 or 6 major events each year, only 2 or 3 of which will involve whole-island gatherings. The rest will either be N, S, E, W type events, or targeted at specific groups (e.g. one major kids event, one major event aimed at leaders, one for training, and a few designed around sharing Jesus explicitly) - but any church can run as many or as few events / opportunities as they wish over the 3 years.

It will all build from Christmas 2030 up to Holy Week 2033 - marking 2,000 years since the death and resurrection of Jesus.

There will be two types of events happening as the three years progress.

Firstly there will be key events that are organised centrally, with larger resourcing and advertising. These will be organised as partnerships of churches working together, from multiple streams (denominations) of the Christian Church. For instance, maybe a speaker on social justice, with every church invited, or a giant family picnic with bands and storytelling to mark "The Feeding of the 5000", with every church across the Island getting an invitation.

Secondly, there will be local events and opportunities organised by individual churches or church groups. Maybe a mens group could host a local listening service to talk about mental health, or a church could run a series of services aimed at praying for healing, to remember the multiple times Jesus healed people.

All of these events, both big and small, would be on the google calendar on this site, alongside our rough timeline of the ministry of Jesus.

Partnership and involvement in this whole mission initiative will be designed and built to be easy, relational and low on work-load.

We will be building a small team between the denominations who will oversee, manage, dream, create, advertise - so that any church wanting to get involved can do so from the smallest involvement of simply advertising other people's events and going along - right through to staging your own events or helping make the central events happen.

Everything works from an 'opt-in' base, from whole denominations or groups of churches, to individual churches and individual people.

The final event would be something like a weekend conference somewhere for all churches and visitors / explorers of faith, to come and hear speakers, worship together, and ask for the Holy Spirit of God to come fill our churches afresh.

After 3 years of working together, meeting new people etc, this should be a beautiful and powerful way to finish.

The final event would be something like a weekend conference somewhere for all churches and visitors / explorers of faith, to come and hear speakers, worship together, and ask for the Holy Spirit of God to come fill our churches afresh.

After 3 years of working together, meeting new people etc, this should be a beautiful and powerful way to finish.