VERSE 10
VERSE 10
VERSE 10
Vision Aims
• Aims are the changes you hope to
achieve as a result of your work
• Objectives are the activities you
undertake and the services you offer
to bring these changes about
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Review expenses
Maximise fundraising –
(a) events b) giving c) grants)
Communication and Transparency
(monthly reports, giving page on
website, making it easy for people to
give)
• Appropriate training
• A talent bank
• Co-ordinated welcome (on arrival in
church and at coffee after services)
• There is
a team in place for the morning service.
should be a team of people, not just one at
• There
a time, to facilitate talking to new people.
They
should
be
organised
and
trained,
for
both
• morning and evening services, and put new
people in contact with the appropriate group
leader(s), as required.
should be clearly identified as
• Welcomers
acting for the Church (not just friendly
parishioners !)
They
should
also
make
further
contact
with
•
new people during the week following their
arrival.
The
welcome
leaflet
should
be
kept
up
to
• date.
Caring
A
pastoral
care
team
should
be
set
up
&
• organised, with a clearly defined remit
validated by the PCC.
Among
other
tasks,
its
members
would
check
•
on absentees ; group leaders and welcomers
would also bring to the attention of this team
any absentees or other pastoral care worries.
The
appropriate
ways
of
caring
should
be
•
examined and defined.
• Offering possibilities for people of all ages
to explore their faith more deeply, to find
a place to pray and to study the word of
God.
• Different possibilities so everyone can find
a place in which to take root.
• Encouragement to get involved in all
aspects of church life, from an early age.
• Ensuring that current possibilities / groups
were well publicised
• Some possible new ways :
– Re-starting the ‘Keep on walking’ group, or a
similar group where people can ask
questions,
– Organising a meal (dinner ? breakfast ?
lunch ?) with a speaker and a
debate/discussion,
– Running courses to build on Alpha, either
general or focussed on a specific group (eg
married couples – ‘Elle et Lui’),
• Continuing our present contacts :
Braderie, ecumenical contacts,
summer barbecues,
• Identifying new opportunities and the
possibilities of making new contacts
(eg at the Citadelle),
• Hosting “outsider friendly” events
(concerts, pub quiz evenings,
bangers & mash evening, etc),
• Necessity to plan our calendar over a
year, in detail at least 3 months in
advance, and to publicise events well,
Two clear categories – internal and
external communication.
• Inner church (communication within
groups, group leaders, meetings)
• Internet presence (links on other
websites etc)
• Newsletter
• Publicity
•
• Invite the Ghanaians to sing in the
morning service
• Encourage members of the congregation
to attend each other’s services
• Hold a ‘rentrée’ service
• Ask different nationality groups to
organise a service as it would be held in
their country/community
• Teaching the children hymns in the
other languages used in our church
• Learning more about the other
cultures, perhaps via items on other
countries on the web-site
• Including mention in intercessions of
events in the other countries
VERSE 10
COVENANT PRAYER
(THE METHODIST CHURCH)
I am no longer my own but yours.
Put me to what you will, rank me with
whom you will;
Put me to doing, put me to suffering;
Let me be employed for you or laid
aside for you,
Exalted for you or brought low for
you;
Let me be full, let me be empty,
Let me have all things, let me have
nothing
I freely and wholeheartedly yield all
things to your pleasure and
disposal.
And now, glorious and blessed God,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
you are mine and I am yours.
So be it.
And the covenant made on earth,
let it be ratified in heaven. Amen.
Next Steps
• In which group would you like to
participate ?
• How can you help?
• Your contact details