Wesley PlaceVision

Background

• Appointed by Church Council to make recommendations to:– Build on our strengths– Identify areas for improvement– Ensure we are set to meet

the challenges of the 21st

Century

Process

• Audit activities, demographics and priorities

• Provoke debate within Church using ‘Of Wood and Stone’ DVD

• Identify priorities• Present draft to Church Council• Consult with committee heads• Present to wider Church• Finalise report• Church Council to consider

and make firm decisions3 year outlook updated and reviewed each year

Methodist Church Priorities

• God-centred worship and prayer• Support community

development and action for justice• Develop confidence in evangelism

and the capacity to speak of God and faith

• Encourage fresh ways of being a Church

• Nurture a culture which is people-centred and flexible

Questions

• What are our core values?• What do they imply for

what we want to do and to be as a Church?

• Is our environment consistent with what we want to do and to be?

Wesley Place Mission

• To worship God and deepen our Christian lives

• To be an inviting, welcoming and witnessing fellowship

• To care for one another as a church family

• To serve the wider community

Vision

• To become the centre of the community alive 24 hours 7 days a week

• For each of us to say ‘I will’not ‘We should’

• For each of us to give ofour time and talentsfor the Lord

Vision

• Partner with U3A• Build infrastructure to support• Change and grow• Increasingly move focus to

families and young people

Worship and Mission

• Revive worship committee– New expressions

• New house groups– Adult and YPF

• Implement ‘Bible Fresh’• Christian library• Increase focus on local

projects

Pastoral

• Develop formal structure with clear terms of reference

• Draw existing and potential strands together

• Welcome process and welcome pack

Family

Activities targeted at• Full-time employed• Young adults• Life groups• 025 and holiday club• Get to know the congregation

breakfasts

Communications

• Set up communications team• Use of different media• Welcome Pack• Other infrastructure?

Wesley Place Mission

• To worship God and deepen our Christian lives

• To be an inviting, welcoming and witnessing fellowship

• To care for one another as a church family

• To serve the wider community

Vision

• To become the centre of the community alive 24 hours 7 days a week

• For each of us to say ‘I will’not ‘We should’

• For each of us to give ofour time and talentsfor the Lord