Team Plan
SUMMARY OF ACTION POINTS 2013/14
Team Draft 1 3/10/13
CHURCH
Leadership
Clergy
Leadership
LMDG
Goal
Actions
Staff to build sense of
team and ensure regular
times away together for
prayer, reflection and
planning.
Develop programme of days
away.
Book venues.
Allocate leading of
worship/sessions.
Review.
Jan 2014
Team
Jan 2014
Feb 2014
SC
Team
Aug 2014
Team
Staff to attend relevant
training courses.
Feedback.
Agree training needs.
Book courses
Jan 2014
Feb 2014
Team
individual
Ensure clergy take
holiday allowance and
days off.
Plan holidays, retreats, etc
Monitor.
Nov 2013
Team
monthly
Team
Meet regularly to
worship, build
relationships and
capacity, identify roles
and discuss detailed
tasks/events and issues.
Develop and agree
programme of meetings and
away days.
Book venues
Agree training programme
for LMDG and individuals
incl LMDG/CMD
modules/courses.
Feedback to Group.
Review.
Sept 2013
Group
Oct 2013
Oct 2013
?
Group
June 2014
Group
Finalise Team Plan and
Action Points.
Begin to match action points
to people.
Oct 2013
Ensure a manageable
annual plan and strategy
for BTM
Timing
Resources
needed
Oct 2013Jan 2014
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Who
How measured
Review
date
Notes
Every member
ministry (also
known as
collaborative
ministry)
Worship
To ensure that every
member of a BTM
church is fulfilling their
calling.
Facilitate existing
congregations in
worshipping God in
traditional and more
modern styles.
Enable those outside the
church to worship God.
Allocate time lines.
Implement.
Review.
LMDG does Enabling
Others module.
Review.
Develop preaching/teaching
programme re gifts/ministry.
Explore ownership of
responsibilities (eg LMDG
“Shared and delegated
ministries”).
Facilitate “testimonies” by
those in role - in services,
LMDG, Cross+Link etc.
Develop programme of
identifying gifts in
congregations (eg “Enabling
Others”).
Provide opportunities for
mentoring, accompaniment,
training, etc.
Review.
Jan 2014
Jan-July 14
July 2014
12/10/13
7/11/13
Feb-Mar
2014
Feb-Mar
2014
Feb-Mar
2014
Feb-Mar
2014
Apr-Dec
2014
Feb 2015
Develop existing services to
involve congregations as
much as possible and
provide them with a variety
of worship styles.
Research and develop
worship “events” which are
accessible to different age
groups outside the existing
church.
Visit other Fresh
Expressions.
Develop forum across the
BTM to share good practice.
Review team services.
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Encourage choirs.
Teach/learn more modern
worship songs.
Develop annual programme
of rural/outdoor services.
Prayer
Encourage and facilitate
a life of prayer - formal
and informal, corporate
and individual –
amongst all those we
care for.
Preaching/teaching on
prayer.
Disseminate info on prayer
widely and through all
media.
Encourage buddies, prayer
partners/triplets.
Promote prayer with
individuals during 10.30am
at St Mary’s and consider
for other churches.
Develop prayer
boards/boxes at all churches.
Lead by example eg
extemporare prayer in
meetings, homes, etc.
Advertise Morning Prayer.
Pewsheet.
Healing
Ministry
To ensure that all those
we encounter who are
sick are given the
opportunity to be prayed
with.
Develop and resource
healing ministry team at St
Mary’s.
Expand ministry into other
churches.
Develop healing service.
Discipleship
Ensure that we all are
grounded in the
foundations of Christian
faith and grow in faith
Preaching/teaching.
Introduce and develop
Pilgrim across the Team,
including confirmation
classes and small groups
(see proposed Pilgrim
3
programme.)
Develop a culture of small
groups.
Encourage small group
leadership.
Lent course – What? How?
Promote baptism of children
and adult believers.
Encourage confirmation.
Organise one team away day
per year.
Organise one away weekend
every two years and
investigate possibility of
sharing with another
deanery benefice.
Occasional
Offices
To ensure that those
who come to us for
baptisms, weddings and
funerals are cared for
and given the best
possible attention.
Continue to tighten up on
admin (ie forms, lists,
arrangements,
communication).
Baptisms
Review baptism policy.
Off dates agreed.
Max no. per Sunday.
Recruit and train visitors.
Baptism Prep?
Clergy/baptism visitor visit
family at least 2 weeks
before.
Follow up families.
Invite families to relevant
services/events.
Weddings
Introduce new form.
Admin to check
arrangements 6, 3 and 1
month before wedding.
Clergy to meet couple at
4
least 3 months before
wedding.
All couples invited to
Marriage Prep.
Invite couples to relevant
services/events.
Annual marriage celebration
service.
Funerals/bereavement
BSG follow up families.
Recruit new BSG members.
BSG meet at least 4 times
p.a.
Occasional BSG training.
Biannual Commemoration
services.
Memorial book at St
Mary’s.
Welcome
To ensure that all those
we encounter feel loved
and welcome
Response cards in every
church. Follow up within 2
weeks.
Develop Welcome Pack.
Continue to develop a
culture of welcome.
Preaching/teaching.
Training of welcomers.
Pastoral care
To ensure that those in
need of care receive it
Residential homes
Visiting, HC and services.
Home visiting
Develop teams.
Hospital
Visiting and weekly HC.
Prayer
Improve communication of
needs.
Training provided as
needed.
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Stewardship
All church members
using the gifts God has
given them for the good
of all
Preaching /teaching – at
least one sermon series p.a.
Identification of
congregational gifts and
encouragement to use them
(various tools available).
Training and
accompaniment provided
where needed.
Financial needs regularly
communicated.
Encourage gift aided
donations.
Every church supporting
financially at least one
charitable cause.
Children and
Young People
To ensure that children
and young people are
welcome, cared for and
taught the Christian faith
Admission of children to
HC to be encouraged.
Confirmation each year,
prep classes, follow up.
Make best use of Youth and
Schools Project – training,
resourcing, invite to
services/events, camps, etc.
Research parents and
toddlers.
Parenting courses?
Mothers Union.
Develop appropriate
worship events.
Teaching.
Social
To build relationships
within and across the
churches outside of
weekly services
Friends.
Quizzes, etc
Suppers.
Trips.
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Communication To ensure effective
communication of all
relevant info to
congregations
Pewsheet
Cross+Link
Website
Weekly notices
Publicity – flyers, posters
Facebook
Email
Team Calendar – major
events to be published in
annual flyer
Notice boards
Lectionaries, rotas, etc
COMMUNITY
Foodbank
To ensure full
involvement in and
support of Bridgnorth
Foodbank
Continue to encourage
resourcing of Foodbank
with volunteers, produce
and funds.
Schools
To ensure that every
primary school child in
the benefice hears the
message of the gospel
and is given the
opportunity to respond
Christian ethos in CE
schools (x2).
Open the Book (4 schools).
Assemblies (3 schools).
Special services (CE
schools).
Develop school eucharists
(CE schools)
Church visits.
RE.
Prayer groups in CE
schools.
Governorship.
Volunteering.
Secondary schools – support
of Y and S work.
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Opportunities capitalised on,
eg services, etc
DBS checks kept up to date.
List of those working with
vulnerable adults and
children kept up to date.
New volunteers to have
DBS checks.
Diocesan training.
Annual communication to
congregations of main
principles.
Effective reporting system
of incidents.
Safeguarding
Young Families
To ensure that young
families in the benefice
are catered for and cared
for
Youth Club
Christian ethos.
Build relationships with
children and parents.
Develop opportunities for
conversations which engage
with children’s lives.
Parent and toddler?
School parents.
The Elderly
Residential homes (see
above).
Friends.
Fellowship lunches.
Communication To ensure effective
communication of all
info relevant the Public
Website
Facebook
Media
Cross+Link
Other churches
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Public buildings
Publicity - posters, flyers
Civic
responsibility
To support town and
village leadership and
events for the good of
the whole population
Mayoral chaplaincy
Hospital chaplaincy
Civic services
Councillors
Bridgnorth Carnival
Music Festival
Children’s Festival
Haydn Festival
Advocacy
Ecumenical
To ensure open and
productive relationships
and collaboration with
other churches in the
benefice
Minister’s Group
Steering Group?
United services.
Study groups.
Publicise each other’s
events.
Links to each others’
websites.
Youth and Schools Project.
Foodbank
CAP debt counselling
Praise and Prayer
Houses of Prayer
Shops
To encourage church
members to live out
their Christian faith in
the community.
Sharing our stories with one
another.
Teaching and preaching.
Study courses.
Testimonies.
Training.
Developing our buildings as
tools of mission.
MISSION AND
OUTREACH
Community
To build the capacity of
church members to
share their faith in
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appropriate and relevant
ways
Encourage all forms of
involvement in the
community incl tentmaking.
To facilitate Team
churches in their
Mission Action Planning
(MAPping)
LMDG members to attend
relevant PCC meetings to
explain the process and help
kick- start the process.
Follow-up annually
World Mission
Support international
organisations in mission,
development etc
Select an organisation each
year to be supported by the
team and one each at least
per church.
Communicate via website,
Cross+Link and pewsheet.
The
Environment
Ensure that all we do
seeks to protect the
environment here and
elsewhere
ANNUAL
REVIEW
To ensure we review,
monitor and develop
our plans annually
Teaching and preaching.
Take steps to reduce carbon
footprint of buildings and
our own homes.
Wildflower areas in church
yards?
Support Christian
environmental organisations
– Operation Noah? Etc
New collective name?
Strengthen links with
Sustainable Bridgnorth.
Annual review
Celebrate!!!
The Five Marks of Mission:
1. Proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom (Tell)
2. Teaching, baptizing and nurturing new believers (Teach)
3. Responding to human need by loving service (Tend)
4. Seeking to be transformed and to transform unjust structures in society (Transform)
5. Striving to safeguard the integrity of creation, to sustain and renew the life of the earth (Treasure)
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