Benefice of The Stodden Churches
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Worship: Introducing Morning Worship for Communion, lay participation, developing Café Sunday, working with the URC chapel
Teaching: Alpha Sundays 2018, 3 Difficult Questions sessions, Christian Basics course
Family: regular school assemblies, Café Sunday
Leadership: Encouraging people to offer their gifts resulting in replacement organists
Communication: Finding an editor for the parish magazine, beginning a website for Stodden Churches, introducing regular pew sheet
Pastoral: encouraging a welcoming approach to those getting married
Resourcing: A successful stewardship campaign 2017

Developing family ministry, especially Messy Church
Music in worship, especially the Benefice Choir
Developing a corporate prayer life and midweek teaching groups
Introducing Benefice social events to draw others in
Developing lay leadership of worship
Communication in terms of social media

As the Stodden Churches we seek to move forward together in love and service, sharing the good news of Christ with our neighbours

Cooperation / Love / Service / Sharing

Worship

To review the current Stodden Pattern of Sunday Services so as to increase the frequency of worship in each church and to consider the style and form or worship offered

To make better use of the Sunday evening worship; for teaching, Lent, special celebration events, youth ventures

To encourage more informality including wider lay involvement with th use oif food and drink (hospitality) as part of worship

Growing younger / younger leadership

To seek to find leaders to begin Messy Church

To look at the possibility after starting an After School club

To engage with young family by Stodden Social events, special Festival celebrations such as Harvest and Pet services, and by inviting back couples who have married in the churches in the last five years

Communication

To develop website making sure news about upcoming events is effectively displayed, and with Café Sunday and other mission initiatives having their own page

To engage with social media like Facebook and Whats App

To have an up to date email contact list for all who have come level or connection to Stodden whilst complying with GDPR