Mission

Priority THREE To make our care for God's creation an important part of our discipleship as individuals and a church: Juliet Boyd & The Green Group

GOAL ‘To achieve A Rocha Silver Award’ • This will entails taking a survey about how ‘green’ we are, and making appropriate changes, in five key areas of our church life:

  1. Worship and teaching

  2. Management of church buildings

  3. Management of church land

  4. Community and global engagement

  5. Lifestyle!

Resources:

To live justly, to love kindness and to walk humbly with God in the service of Christ. • Glorifying God through welcoming and inspiring worship • Being a community growing in faith, hope and love • Caring for the lost, the lonely and the vulnerable • Seeking and serving God's purposes for transforming the world

Priorities and Goals Autumn 2022 Agreed at the DCC mtg 16th November 2022

Priority ONE To make St Mary's more visible in the local and wider community

GOAL 1 ‘To promote Choral Evensong’ Sheila Lenon

GOAL 2 ‘To rebuild the Church Website’ Sam Pedder

GOAL 3 ‘To change the format of the Annual Review to a Magazine format and distribute to the local area Sam Pedder

Priority TWO To deepen the prayer life of the congregation

GOAL 1 ‘To organise a church conference on prayer’ Laura Campbell

GOAL 2 ‘To start a prayer group and to put prayer resources on the parish website’ Eleanor Searley

GOAL 3 ‘To set up a pop up prayer station in the Baptistry’ Laura Campbell