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R Ise T Hrive MONDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2020 R i s e | T h r i v e | R e a c h Page 2 04 05 06 Andy Perry Writes RISE Worship New Wine 07 08 09 Led By The Spirit Students and Twenties THRIVE Life Groups 10 11 12 Children Youth Longfleet Primary School Our Space Safeguarding 13 14 15 Volunteers Prayer Ministry Pastoral Care Marriage+ Ministry Pastoral Prayer Ministry Prayer Chain Pastoral Support Fund 16 17 18 Church Fabric Women’s Ministry Men’s Ministry Summer Fun Day 19 20 21 REACH Reach Ministry The Recovery Course Alpha Course Soup Run 22 23 24 Café@SML Church Centre SML INFO MARS Trust Church Graft at Hamworthy 25 26 27 Current Staff Team Balancing the Books Information About the PCC Extended Staff Team 32 33 36 PCC Members Minutes of last APCM Annex A—Agenda (to follow) Deanery Synod Members Page 3 Welcome to our Annual Reports for 2019. No one could have envisaged at the turn of the year and beginning of a new decade, as we were thinking about 20/20 vision, that our lives and the social landscape of our country would be so dramatically impacted by the COVID pandemic. So much has changed, and remains fluid and uncertain. APCMs have been delayed across all churches; I certainly hadn't expected to be writing this 'Welcome' in August! Amidst all the continuing uncertainty, what remains unchanging is that the Living God is Sovereign and Jesus is faithfully and joyfully committed to ‘building His Church’ ( Matthew 16:18). We have the privilege of playing our small part in partnering with our LORD, in the power of His Spirit, here in Poole. Our VISION 2020 continues to frame our direction of travel together, open to the fresh winds of the Spirit. Seeking to- RISE up as passionate, whole-life Disciples THRIVE in healthy, love-filled Community REACH out with hope-filled Mission. Looking back over 2019, as you read these pages I trust you will be deeply encouraged to see so many diverse strands of life, and countless areas to be thankful for in our life and mission together. To highlight five: Thrilling to see the flourishing of our 'Emerging Generations' ministry including the development of 'Our Space' Hosting a conference on 'Wholeness and Mental and Emotional Well-Being' reflecting our desire to deepen our understanding and engage more fully with these concerns The appointment of our new Outreach Pastor, Rachel Dismorr, and our commitment to the Recovery Course The vitality of our Life Groups and importance of Prayer Triplets Teams continuing to visit and serve Refugees in Calais with practical care and carrying the love of Jesus. At the heart of our life together as Christ-followers is our continuing shared commitment to our ‘Core Discipleship Practices’: it’s through these that we invite the LORD's ongoing, day by day, transforming ministry within us and from which everything else flows. Alongside this, as a multi-generational church community at SML, we aim to encourage each other in our different stages of life and growth, and to reach out to, engage with and welcome ‘ missing generations’. I was reminded recently of a perspective for us to hold on to as a church community,' Everybody's welcome, nobody's perfect, and with God anything is possible.' We look forward to gathering, probably both in person and online, for our Annual Parochial Church Meeting at 7.30pm on Monday 19th October. With huge thanks for the adventure of our shared journey with the LORD. Blessings, Andy Perry, Vicar Page 4 up as passionate, whole - life Disciples Page 5 Andy Dollerson Worship Pastor 2019 has been a great year for worship, we have seen an amazing growth in the congregation’s desire for intimacy and passion in all of our services. The completion of the chancel project in the spring has opened up the space in a way that has inspired us to be more focused on the cross as we worship. We want to thank all those that serve and lead within the worship team, for their will- ingness to serve and being an inspirational example of worship is so deeply valued by all at SML. Thank you for being part of Worship at St. Mary’s this year! Mark Hay Associate Vicar As well as the large number of team that went to help Emily at Groundbreakers, a small num- ber from SML, joining with some from other lo- cal churches, made the trip to New Wine’s new site in Peterborough. Despite the site being less picturesque than the old home at Shepton Mallet, the values and ethos hadn’t changed, with inspiring teaching, engaging worship, and a genuine sense of the Holy Spirit being pre- sent. Unfortunately, a severe weather warning meant that the conference had to close two days early, this was a huge disappointment, especially for those serving in Groundbreakers and the other kids’ venues. Page 6 David Betts Course Leader theoretical. It was a great blessing to have worship each session. Over the five weeks the course covered a number of topics including: Life Through The Spirit – who He is, receiving the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit. Spiritual gifts and ministries – power for ser- vice, natural and spiritual giftings and how we receive and exercise them. Creativity of the Spirit - worship in the Spirit’s flow. The Led by The Spirit course explores the work Ministering To Others – Jesus’ model for minis- and ministry of the Holy Spirit. There were try, categories of healing, power and authority about 30 members who attended the course How The Enemy Works - who Satan is, spiritual during May 2019. The course included both oppression and how to recognise and deal teaching and training, experiential as well as with it. Mark Hay Associate Vicar Life Groups are the primary means of creating small places of belonging at SML, within which members of the congregation can know and be known, and can come together to grow as disci- ples of Jesus. This growth involves a shared focus on the core discipleship practices of Vision 2020. SML has around twenty Life Groups and they reflect the diversity of SML. Most groups meet in the evenings, with two women’s groups meeting on a weekday morning. Most groups meet fortnight- ly but a small minority meet weekly. Groups are spread geographically within Poole and beyond. During 2019, three new groups were launched, two of which came from tables on the Alpha course. Page 7 Matt Molyneux and Miriam Molyneux Students and Twenties Leaders Matt and I began leading Students and Twenties in January 2019, having taken over from Mark Hay. We have seen the group grow in numbers from 5 to 15 people regularly attending each week. It has been great to welcome new people, some have only been with us for a term and others have been new to SML. We have enjoyed eating together, socialising together including an Easter egg hunt around Poole. We seek to be a group that goes deeper with God, to be a resting place during the week where each member can come and receive from God. We want to thank every- one who has come and led our discipleship sessions over the last year, as part of this series we have looked at; Prayer, Worship, Reading the Bible, Mission, Serving, Giving, Contemplation and Fasting. We are excited as we look ahead to 2020, we seek to continue to build a love filled com- munity and we are especially looking forward to our weekend away that is being planned. Page 8 in healthy, love - filled Community Page 9 Emily Duffy Children’s Pastor It has been another fantastic year in the Children’s ministry at SML. We held ‘The Greatest Story Ever Told’ Holiday Club during February half term. We had over 80 children attend and we had loads of fun making mess and learning about Jesus. The Light Party at the end of October was well attended and it was a joy to shine light in the darkness and rollerblade round church. The children told the Christmas story powerfully, at their nativity service. Our midweek groups Blast and Fusion are going from strength to strength! Fusion in particular has had huge growth with a regular attendance of over 50, mainly non-churched, children, it has been amazing to see more and more kids attending each week. Once again SML Kids and a team of volunteers went to New Wine to lead the children’s venue ’Ground Breakers’ for nearly 500 4-7 year olds. Last but not least, a massive thank you to everyone who has helped this year; you have been amazing and kids work wouldn’t run without you. Bring on next year! Sam Voyle Children’s Placement Student 2019 has been a really exciting year for the growing ‘accessible ministry’ that we have been developing here at St. Mary’s. We started ‘Our Space’ in May 2019 having spoken to fami- lies and seeing the need to create a safe and accessible place. We have seen a steady growth in attendance as we have welcomed new families to our community. Our Space is a fun, safe and fully inclusive environment for the families of children with additional needs that provides an accessible space for families to ex- perience church together. We are looking for- ward to seeing what God is going to do through this growing ministry and would ap- preciate your prayers as we continue to jour- ney with those that we support.
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