MISSION ACTION PLAN
Our Mission Action Plans are “SMART” and reviewed at every 6 weekly PCC. In August 2018 they were:
- ‘To serve God and the community’
- Sustain pastoral care to the village and local community during the Vacancy
- Engender a spirit of welcome and sustenance
- Publicise services, church events and activities
- Encourage people to know, love, follow Jesus and to grow as his disciples in worship and witness to the truth of the gospel
- ‘To continue to make our services accessible to families with young children,
- Provide a regular service aimed at children
- Review periodically the effectiveness and relevance of our provision
- Develop the spiritual understanding of the younger community
- Involve children regularly in all services and familiarise them with the traditional forms of worship
- Community outreach – Provide a place of friendship for the wider community to come to
- Encourage children to take leadership roles within the worship:
- Encourage fellowship, community and spiritual development and understanding church in a wider context
- Develop the teenage work within the church
- Maintain and develop links with the March School
- ‘Church Fabric’
- Maintain the exterior and interior fabric of the building, churchyard and burial ground
- Repair ground drain around the church as required in Quinquennial Inspection
- Six table tombs to be rebuilt
- Create a more flexible space to allow for a variety of events in the building
- To encourage locals and tourists to visit the church for either private prayer or to enjoy its history or both
- ‘Parish Costs and Contribution’
- To raise the quarter share for Oving through collections
- Raise additional income to met any shortfall in the parish contribution and cover routine expenditure
- Raise additional income for the maintenance of the church fabric for the items on the Quinquennial Inspection report
- Maintain charitable giving