Our Next SOMA SCHOOLS…

Blue Mountains, NSW
16th-20th January 2025
Host church – Soma Blue Mountains

Registrations are open!

Melbourne Central, VIC
15th-19th May 2025
Hosted by Innerwest Church, Kensington and Regeneration Church, Monash

Registrations will open February 2025…

WHAT IS SOMA SCHOOL?

An equipping environment where missional community moves from theory to experience.

We put people in an environment to experience missional community life, to taste and see, rather than just talk theoretically about it. Every participant stays in the home of a missional community leader and sees their lives. They’re immersed in a gospel rich environment and participate in everyday mission.

Soma School equips leaders, church planters, and staff to engage in missional community life, to lead missional communities, and to lead a church of missional communities.

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Who is soma australia?

Soma Australia is both a family and a movement. We’re a family of Australian churches who support each other. And we’re also a movement working with City to City Australia to equip and empower Australian churches and church planters.

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Soma Global Areas

Soma Global Areas is a new way to support and grow Soma churches across the world. The goal is to establish new Soma Areas. These are families of churches within different countries, so that multiple churches in a nation work together, in a more organised, sustainable and accountable way than we have so far. A Global Leadership Team has been formed, led by Brad Watson. Its role is to serve, equip and champion the emerging global areas. And then, under the umbrella of the Global Leadership Team, Area Teams are being formed in each country. An Australian Area Team has now been formed, and its role is to help strengthen, care for, and establish a healthy family of Soma churches here in Australia.

VISION

We want every man, woman, and child in Australia to experience an encounter with Jesus Christ in both word and deed in the everyday. We believe missional communities are a biblical and incredibly powerful way of seeing this happen.

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MISSION

We want to give people the ability to plant and lead missional communities, and to plant and lead churches of missional communities.

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JESUS IS BETTER

HIS CHURCH IS MORE

HIS MISSION IS EVERYDAY

Jesus is better

We believe Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, present ascension and intercession before God the Father on our behalf, and the work he’s doing by his Spirit in our lives and in our world, and his future return to make all things new… is the greatest news and the only hope for the world!

His church is more

We believe in Missional Communities, which are a way of re-imagining church life for Australians, that is relevant to modern life. They combine a focus on gospel renewal, cultivating deeper community by practicing ‘life on life’ discipleship, and committing to ongoing gospel centred mission to specific people or groups throughout urban, suburban and rural Australia. Missional Communities aren’t everything, but they’re foundational for us. We also believe in gathering regularly as a whole church, and in eldership and having theologically trained staff, and so on.

 

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his mission is every day

We believe in mission in the everyday stuff of life. We want to be witnesses of Jesus to the people the Holy Spirit sends us to live among, showing the Gospel by how we love them and each other, and sharing the Gospel in our willingness to give Jesus as the answer to every human longing. Jesus never sent his disciples on mission alone, so as a missional community we always work together to see the Gospel go out.

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City to city australia

City to City Australia exists to help leaders build gospel movements in Australian cities. The vision of City to City Australia is to join with God to see major city centres in Australia worshipping Jesus Christ as Lord.

Soma Australia has officially joined City to City Australia. 

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Soma US

We’re a family of churches. We make disciples, strengthen one another, and plant churches of Missional Communities towards Gospel Saturation…until every man, woman, and child has a daily encounter with Jesus in word and deed.

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