What are Covenant Groups?

What is the Seeds Covenant

The Seeds Covenant is an attempt at naming the spirit of conversations, connections and commitments that take place around themes of spirituality, community and mission that have emerged out of the life of Urban Seed.  Groups covenant around the following ideas...

Know the Word:

Includes our approach to worship gatherings, bible study, and public missional conversations ala city walks and seminar series.  We encourage punters to think and write around the gospel lectionary readings for the website and to preach.

Grow Home through Slow Food:

We encourage punters to explore themes of poverty, chastity and obedience in creating a sense of shared community around an open table.

Go Engage:

Theological ideas and practical means of Teaching, Healing and Casting out Evil are workshopped in order for a group to engage in local mission.

Seedy punters and Locality based household/cluster groups meet during Lent to discern the meaning of the charism using a Quaker style approach of queries and advices.

A gathering of the mobs is held around Pentecost to celebrate our common connections and commitments.

Each year clusters appoint a Deacon and/or Guardian for the task of nurturing the resources of the Seeds collective and to build connections between other cluster mobs.


A bottle of oil (a symbol of healing) for Go Engage, A packet of seeds in a Credo Cafe bowl for Growing Home through Slow Food and a Bible for Knowing the Word.  Symbols used for a Seeds Blessing at Luke and Kylie's Wedding.