Croxley Green, St Oswald version: 3

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

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 Situation

From 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