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| Making it happen is a team of people who are passionate for God, and share a common vision for the growth of Wellspring. We are currently working in a number of areas that have been highlighted as ways the church can improve. These areas were generated by the whole church as part of the Spring to Life, Lay Witness weekend. The team is under the leadership of management consultant, Graham Burgess and the spiritual guidance of Steward, Phil Stirk. |
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Café Church. |
Growth in the teenage church |
Improved pastoral care | ||||
Who: Barbara Outcome: Dianne and Barbara are preparing a meal for the Harvest Celebration on Sat 11 October 2008. Looking at a Café Church Evening on Monday 22nd December.
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Who: Marie Clare & Mark Task: To build up the youth church Outcome: new programme called ‘Awesome on the inside’ will be started for the youth and will run from Sept to Dec 2008 at the Stirk’s house 22 Malvern Close. The funds for the Youth were discussed and Pam would take the matter up with Ian Smith for a Youth Fund of approx £300.00 Marie Clare to confirm. Marie Clare also shared her concerns for the Sunday Clubs with a lack of provision for the younger children in the church. This matter needs urgent attention. Staffing a lot better help from Jonathan Fryer/Heather Sparey sharing it every other Friday. Chris Carter also involved as well as outside helpers Penny, Amanda.Mark to report back at the next meeting how this is all working, Watch group more demanding than Match. Mark also looking for a 6ft/3ft snooker table or fix the old one (John Roberts. Child Protection forms a concern raised by Pam for all people working with children on church premises. This needs to be raised at the next leadership meeting 25th Sept.
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Who: David, Margaret & Anne Task: Improve the pastoral care network
Phil made contact with Rev David Westhead, former minister of Haslington Methodist Church, and he gave us the contact of David Kurk (National Methodist Cell Church Co-ordinator), who spoke to Margaret in great depth and supplied Margaret with a Cell Church document which will be passed on to Pam to follow up with Anne and Margaret for the next meeting. |
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Improving the prayer life of the church |
Welcome Pack |
Encouraging people to want to be involved | ||||
Who: Judith & David Task: To improve the prayer life of the church. Outcome: To encourage the availability of prayer within the church now that the prayer room is available to everyone. How do we make it more open to the church? Pam agreed to be available on Tuesday (pm’s) working it alongside Mums and Toddlers for prayer etc.David would also look at another prayer/teaching session i.e. possible a half day at Bosley Chapel.
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Who: Richard Task: To create a pack that can be used to welcome people to the church. Outcome: The welcome post cards have now been designed and printed. We have an intial stock of 500 cards. These cards can be used by everyone at wellspring, to welcome new people and share information about our church with others. We will now evaluated the need for a more in-depth downloadable welcome pack from this website. |
Who: Keith Task:To encourage more people to be involved in church life. Outcome: A winter programme up till Christmas has been arranged with the comedian Bobby Ball coming to Wellspring on 8th October to talk and share his testimony. This should be a fantastic evening with numbers growing rapidly. The plan was to sit approx 80 people for a meal prior to Bobby speaking with up to another 80 people arriving for the after dinner speech. The seating arrangements were discussed for a length of time and it was agreed to invite Graham Burgess down to the church to pull on his experience in organising an event such as this, Phil to contact Graham. Many thanks to Keith and Andrew for all their hard work in ‘Making this happen’! |
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Who: Pete Outcome: Many thanks to the hard work Mike Edge has put into the new display boards which can be found in the prayer room .A job well done! |
Who: Catherine Outcome: Themed services to discuss with Pam |
Who: Geoff and Claire Outcome: Weekend away 3-5th April 2009 at Cloverley Hall Whitchurch Shropshire. No report this time but the group meet on Thurs 18th Sept and we look forward to hearing about there progress at our next meeting. . |
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Who: Ellis Outcome: The youth met for the 1st time on Wed 10th Sept with the help of Richard and Marie Clare to help put together a youth band which was very encouraging to see a new breed of talented musicians in our midst. |
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