Mission Action Plan
‘Extending our Outreach’
We entitle our Mission Action Plan ‘Extending our Outreach’ since within the period of the Plan we hope to have been able to undertake and complete the Church’s internal reordering project which will underpin many of our ambitions for mission and outreach that are described within the Plan.
Our Mission action Plan for 2011-2012 is to focus particularly on:
- greater bringing together of the existing Church family to build good foundations for outreach
- our outreach to non-churchgoers, or ‘fringe’ folk, with regular non-eucharistic services
- general outreach to the community, with more active involvement in Cuckfield mayor-making, pub quizzes, wider non-Church engagement for harvest suppers and Trinity teas, etc
- our outreach to families, through family support work, initiatives including a new men’s group, and strengthened links to Holy Trinity CE Primary School
- building upon our outreach to youth, with strategies to guide ‘secular’ youth club members towards more church activities, using our own youth support workers, adult youth leaders and the Diocesan youth adviser to assist in this
In support of all these initiatives and existing activities we recognise also that:
- we must establish a high-quality Church public relations team which serves all Church activities and ensures that the Church’s profile and events within the community are high
In 2012-2013* we expect to focus particularly upon:
- outreach to visitors who we expect in increased numbers following completion of reordering
- welcome and support for new members of the congregation and new families, which we anticipate will be numerous as a result of both of our 2011-2012 initiatives and reordering
- rebuilding mission giving to past levels
In 2013-2014* our focus will probably be upon:
- securing the position of the Church as the centre of parish activity within Cuckfield
- planning succession in anticipation of the retirement of our Incumbent
*These key objectives are not ‘set in stone’ and may need to change in the light of changing circumstances
