Wheathampstead Deanery MAP Summary 2017

Kimpton

Markyate Ayot St Street Lawrence Harpenden Flamstead Wheathampstead

Sandridge Redbourn Good Practice

• “Building up” from parish MAPs to create deanery MAP priorities. • 4 groups, each “owning” a MAP priority. Deanery Vision

Moving from getting on well together to working well together.

MAP Priorities and SMART Goals

A – Go Deeper into God • Holding Deanery Retreats (2 in 5 years) and Deanery Quiet Days (in years when no retreat) • Providing opportunities to deepen faith through training events shared between parishes and other initiatives, including ‘Thy Kingdom Come’

B – Transform Communities • Sharing learning and best practice of how individual parishes are transforming their local communities – sessions at Synod and Chapter meetings • Distributing Welcome Packs to new housing developments within the deanery

C – Make New Disciples • Creating a deanery forum for Evangelism – encouraging boldness in proclaiming Christ and sharing faith journeys, and training others to do so – a first stage could be TableTalk at a Deanery Synod; it would also be good to ask what nurture courses have been tried and what has worked in different contexts • Staging a deanery Christian presence at the Herts County Show • Continuing and strengthening the X:Site initiative for deanery young people

D – Work Together • Parishes actively seeking ways to work with other parishes in the deanery, in delivering their Parish MAPs • Creating opportunities for clergy and lay people from different parishes to spend time together, including exploring the option of a ‘Lay Chapter’ • Co-operating to provide training e.g. for leading intercessions; pastoral care; preparation of children for communion before Confirmation; baptism follow-up • Establishing a group to improve communications between parishes across the deanery

Action for Deanery and any action or BENEFICE CMF D.I. Posts assistance from other bodies eg DMPC Flamstead and Markyate Street 86 82 1 1. Review deployment of all forms of Harpenden, St John 198 119 1 licensed ministry and workload in the Harpenden, St Nicholas 568 322 2.75 parish of Harpenden Kimpton with Ayot St Lawrence 74 63 0.5 2. Use parish Mission Statistics to inform Redbourn 242 106 1 work to encourage and support growth Sandridge 84 58 0.5 3. DMPC to note that ecumenical contacts Wheathampstead 190 118 1 in the deanery are activity-based Totals 1442 868 7.75