Croxley Green, St Oswald version: 3
Our Details
Website
http://www.stoswaldschurch.org.uk
Parish
Croxley Green, St Oswald
Benefice
Croxley Green, St Oswald
Deanery
Rickmansworth
Archdeaconry
St Albans
Dates
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This MAP was adopted by PCC
20/11/2017 -
This MAP was uploaded to the website on
29/11/2017 -
Our MAP will be reviewed next
20/11/2019
Our Looking
What progress have you made with the Goals from your previous MAP, and what do you want to celebrate?
- Resurfacing of Car Park satisfactorily completed
- From FestivOs we learned the need for better Communication and have installed a new website
- In order to engage better with young adults there is now a group 'Network' for mainly 20s to 40s
What Goals did you set where you saw less progress than you would have liked?
- Refurbishment of kitchen not proceeded with due to lack of finance available
- Baptism Task group only just set up
Things seen about our local community
- New secondary school to be built in the parish
- Pressure on land and lack of affordable housing
- Difficulty in finding volunteers due to pressure of time from 'busyness' and alternative leisure activities
How have you begun to engage with these concerns / needs / issues?
- Provision of uniformed orgasnisations
- Making Church Hall available to the general community
- Contacts with the secondary school
Our Discerning
Vision (for five years' time)
Our Vision is to be a joyful, prayerful and caring and growing church; alive to the Holy Spirit; welcoming and accessible to all; building relationships with God and the community we serve.
Current SituationFrom our Parish Statistics for Mission, we see that we are / have...
A gradual reduction in regular worshippers, which is a cause for concern
Priorities (for the next five years)
- To show God's love in active involvement in the life of our community
- To engage with the local community in the life of our community and give greater opportunities for members of the wider community to engage in the life of the church
- To enable people to grow in discipleship and service
Goals (for the next year)
- Install a contacts database and engage more with social media
- Improve and expand both traditional and new methods of marketing
- Plan a coherent strategy for our work with children and young people
- Make more use of our buildings
- Identify, recruit and support volunteers