8 kairos planskairos plans 9 New churches on the cards Parish may be re-drawn AMBITIOUS plans to plant KAIROS plans in the providing courses to help new churches in Wecock and Petersfield deanery could Petersfield outreach and evangelism the proposed new development Flagship project: ultimately involve a re- munity through a network are on the cards at St Mary to the west of Waterlooville are drawing of diocesan bound- of ‘street wardens’ and a Magdalen Sheet. part of the Havant deanery’s aries. Christian listening service. And the plans for the Kairos vision. It might prove to be bet- In the Greatham, West Meon, Warnford, East The Cowplain, Hart Plain and ter to cluster worshippers in Empshott, Hawkley, Steep, Meon and Langrish cluster Denmead cluster suggested Whitehill with their neigh- Froxfield and Privett cluster, include better provision for employing an expert in church bours in St Marks, Bordon the priorities are to break families and children, the planting, who could work in in the Guildford diocese, down the barriers between development of non- Wecock, then switch to rather than with St church and community, Eucharistic and midweek part one is done Matthew’s, Blackmoor. It worship, and the better use Waterlooville, make churches more wel- depends on exactly where coming and attractive, to of space within the church Those parishes also suggest- T’S been a flagship proj- ed employing two lay people for new homes are built over expand every-member min- at East Meon. The creation five years as community liaison ect, echoing Kairos think- the next few years – and istry and nurture links with of a meeting space in the officers, based at Wecock; an Iing from the start. And the that depends on which the local C of E school. north aisle and a welcome evangelistic carol concert fea- first phase is now complete. pieces of army land are sold The plans in the area at Langrish is also Practice manager Mike Turner said: in the area. planned. turing the speaker J John this The Wecock community flat was opened by the then The ambitious vision to convert St Petersfield, Buriton and Sheet “There had been a surgery in Baffins It’s one of the ambitious Across the whole Christmas; and a ‘listening Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, in 2002 Cuthbert’s Church, Copnor, into a GPs’ cluster include mutual sup- since the 1920s and it moved to its previ- plans put forward by the , worship- service’ based at the to contribute to. Also planned surgery, community rooms and a new port and the development of Petersfield deanery ous address about 30 years ago. It was pers want to develop better Queenswood GPs’ surgery, Havant are co-operation across the clus- worship area has taken a massive step for- Blackmoor, Liss and Liphook existing links with Ghana about the size of a three-bedroomed cluster, which also involves communications between which would involve 30 volun- ter, including sharing in wor- ward. and Sweden. Worshippers would like to house. Despite two major extensions, we designing events for wed- churches, offer more train- teers being trained in Christian ship and fellowship; running Doctors, nurses, reception staff and Putting the maintenance create a community café to pro- only had five consulting rooms and two ding couples and activities ing and resources for lay listening. appropriate training courses; patients from the nearby Baffins surgery of St Mary’s Church on a vide a friendly meeting place for treatment rooms, serving 8,000 patients. for parents and toddlers in and ordained people and Another idea is a youth bus, and publishing contact details moved into their new premises at the end sound footing, developing people in Catherington and We had to have a rota for certain rooms, Blackmoor and Whitehill, ensure better co-operation which would serve as a mobile for relevant community services of May, as the first third of the £3.4m the role of the laity to pro- Clanfield, launch a coffee morn- so that when a doctor went out on visits, a and maintaining a St on resources and worship youth café to serve youths who and organisations. building project was completed. vide administration support ing in Blendworth, Idsworth health visitor might take over his room Matthew’s presence on com- patterns. currently have nowhere to meet. And Emsworth, Havant and Their three-storey complex is now and pastoral care, and out- and Chalton, hold more music while he was out! munity groups in Bordon. The deanery hopes to There would also be an expan- Hayling Island worshippers want housed where the church’s old chancel reach via the parish maga- concerts at St Michael’s, “We’d outgrown it by the late 1990s, In Liphook and identify and foster five full- sion of the work at the Wecock to appoint a youth and chil- and lady chapel used to be at the north end zine, special services and the Chalton, and provide toilet and the idea of moving into the church Bramshott, the plans time ministers, five non- community flat. dren’s worker to provide Godly of the building. The new surgery is double school are Buriton’s plans. facilities at St Hubert’s, came about when one of our partners was include reviewing baptismal stipendiary ministers and Included in the Kairos plan play, outreach and schools work the size of its previous premises on near- And St Peter’s, Idsworth. talking to the vicar. It was a God- practice to enable five Readers by 2010, and are ideas to develop the ‘Messy across the cluster. by Hayling Avenue. It boasts a total of 15 Petersfield, will look at ways The Bedhampton, Leigh Park ordained, chance conversation. unchurched families to get doesn’t envisage reducing Church’ after-school club held They also suggest improving rooms where patients can be examined to share buildings and facil- and Rowlands Castle cluster sug- “Our practice has always had a Staff from the Baffins surgery outside their new, modern glass entrance involved in church life, its number of clergy before monthly at St Wilfrid’s, their ministry of welcome, and treated, compared with seven in the ities with other denomina- gested a two-part project in Christian ethos. The partners are all The new surgery was developed by The second phase of the project will expanding youth and chil- that date. Clergy and synod Cowplain, and the ‘Thirst Day expanding their pastoral teams previous building. tions, improve its support which they survey the views of Christians, so the idea of coming into the Primary Health Care Centres, a company involve demolishing the existing church dren’s work, and developing will also discuss the possibil- Club’, an after-school event at to visit the housebound or ill, There is an impressive blend of the old for the bereaved, house- the local community, and then church had a huge attraction. We now specialising in building new clinical hall, which will be converted into flats for the church centre in ities for creating group min- Westbrook Hall in Cowplain. and improving communication and the new, with newly-plastered walls bound, disabled, sick, elder- make changes within their have double the space, including areas for premises, who have a long lease agree- the over-55s. And work to create a four- Liphook for community ly and lonely, formalise its istries, and hope to develop The Northern cluster, which so local authorities and agencies interspersed with brick arches and churches to enable more com- staff to relax in, as well as complying with ment with the church and rent the surgery storey complex in the middle section of activities. system of offering lifts to links with west Africa fur- includes Blendworth, Chalton, know what the church can offer columns from the original building. And a munity members to engage with disability discrimination legislation. to the practice. This provides income to the 1915 building, and a worship area for And in Liss, the aims are those without cars, and ther. Idsworth, Catherington and and congregations know how to new glass foyer has been created at the Christianity. “Most of the patients’ comments have the church, while providing the actual 200 people in the south section of the to provide meaningful wor- broaden existing outreach Five lay people from the Clanfield, hopes to improve get involved in the community. surgery’s entrance on Lichfield Road. And the Portsdown, been: ‘Wow! It’s big!’, and there have finance to develop the premises. building should all be completed by ship for all sections of the initiatives. deanery have also submitted publicity, develop the pastoral The deanery plan involves Bishop Kenneth will open the new Crookhorn, Waterlooville and been lots of positive things said about the The first phase of the project has also Christmas 2006. The church needs to community, develop a more Meanwhile, improve- suggestions for changes at care within their existing con- creating a rural dean’s support surgery in a ceremony on July 18, com- Purbrook cluster envisages a blend of old and new. It’s also given us a included the creation of a parish hall raise only another £500,000 to complete comprehensive scheme for ment of communications, diocesan level that have gregations and fringe members, team so that a half-time clergy mending the project for pioneering the partnership with Havant chance to revamp our professionalism, above the surgery, which is now the new the project. welcome, nurture and sup- been considered by the post can be saved. Some consul- concepts of serving the local community creating toilet facilities in and to create a voluntary group Borough Council to identify with new uniforms and a better image.” home for The Corner Pre-School. It will Worshippers will continue to meet for port of families, and to diocesan structures review tation will be needed before and working in partnership that have been church, more support for that could maintain links with appropriate community projects The GPs will now sell their old build- expand its provision from 18 children per Sunday services at Langstone Junior engage with the local com- group. more suggestions can be made. at the heart of Kairos thinking. ecumenical projects and those living in remote areas. ing, which will be converted into housing. session to 24. School until building work is finished. Slashing red tape is on the agenda Work on real partnership Monthly outreach in local pub AMONG the ideas from the Bishop’s Waltham The parish also hopes to foster vocations, AFTER a self-confessed rocky each parish to work on com- ONE of the Kairos aims is to meet peo- At Brading itself, work with young deanery are plans to slim down church bureau- Bishop’s Waltham deepen the church’s spiritual life and respond start to the Kairos process, Fareham mon areas. ple where they are – and Bembridge wor- East Wight people is a priority, while improved com- cracy by reorganising three parishes that haps employing a youth worker, is top of the to ecological challenges, as well as developing worshippers in the Fareham ities for youngsters are all on The initial plans will see shippers are doing just that by organising youth events for 12 to 16-year-olds. munications are planned at Yaverland. already share a priest (Droxford, Meonstoke- agenda in Botley, Curdridge and Durley. collaboration with parishes in Shedfield and deanery are now starting to the agenda. them working on Christian a monthly meeting in a local pub. The In Sandown Bay, the parishes of And Newchurch’s Kairos proposals with-Corhampton and Exton) into a single Improvements to the community’s use of Wickham. dream ambitious dreams with The group aims to review listening, counselling and idea is to combine outreach into the com- Shanklin and Sandown hope to form a include a scheme to welcome newcomers parish. church buildings, the ministry of welcome, And the Wickham, Boarhunt and a real focus on collaborative its use of buildings, including marriage preparation togeth- munity with a social evening for the con- group ministry and then start equipping with a welcome pack, a service for sin- Other Kairos proposals from the pastoral care, communications, and worship- Southwick cluster’s proposals include using ministry. the major re-development of er, but ultimately could gregation. lay people for pastoral care, baptism and gles and services for children aged 11 Hambledon, Soberton-Newtown and Bridge pers’ spiritual lives are also suggested. church land to provide affordable housing, A day conference for all St Columba’s Church, greater involve co-operation on lead- Other plans in the Bembridge, St wedding preparation, mission and evan- and over. cluster include the re-ordering of Exton And the parishes want Christian basics experimenting in worship, improving commu- the clergy of the deanery was use of churches by the com- ership training, Alpha, youth- Helens and Seaview cluster include gelism. And the cluster group based around church, co-ordination of youth ministry and courses, more systematic teaching on Sundays nication, and pursuing the idea of providing a the start of the process, and munity and a review of min- work, evangelism and music. helping to provide a replacement minibus And the Ryde cluster’s plans include Ventnor has already highlighted the working together to deepen adult faith. There’s and in home groups, and will look again at pro- youth centre in Wickham. both its clusters are now istry at both St Francis, And the deanery plan is for Bembridge village, and working with the re-development of the vestry at St need to train lay people, set up an admin- also a suggestion about working across dean- viding styles of worship relevant to the whole There are also plans to reconfigure the focused on working together Funtley, and St Edmund’s, designed to facilitate collabo- the parish council to upgrade the present John’s to house an office for the Ryde istration office to serve the parishes and ery boundaries with the parishes of West Meon community. inside of St Nicholas’ Church, to campaign for in partnership. Stubbington in terms of their rative working by significant- church hall in Seaview and convert it into East Community Association, and work- possibly other denominations, and evalu- and Warnford. In the Shedfield and Swanmore cluster, a pedestrian crossing to link the church with In Fareham East, that relationships with their parish ly restructuring the deanery a community centre for the whole vil- ing together in support for the elderly and ate worship across the parishes. The Botley, Bishop’s Waltham and Shedfield’s plans include creating more reflec- the village, to identify the skills within the should involve developing churches and geographical synod to provide vision, sup- lage. youth work. This cluster has also suggested that Upham cluster wants to help local schools, tive services, providing practical support for congregation and to develop relationships links with schools and involv- communities. port and oversight to the clus- In St Helens, the proposals include Holy Trinity and St Michael’s the diocese discusses the development of provide facilities for the carers for the dis- children to develop faith, providing courses in across denominational boundaries. ing more church members in And the plans include ters, while at the same time upgrading the church building to modern Churches hope to work more closely a possible Locally Ordained Minister abled, and provide parenting courses in parenting, Christian basics and confirmation, Work is still continuing on the deanery schools work. exploring a deanery-wide fulfilling its legal responsibili- standards of comfort and reaching out together, as do St John’s with Binstead scheme. Bishop’s Waltham. A feasibility study into pro- and developing further links with schools. plan, but it could involve changes to the Providing support for lone teaching programme, and ties. into the community by having a presence and Havenstreet. The East Wight deanery plan sug- viding facilities for teenagers there – and per- And at Swanmore, the aim is to help meet deployment of clergy in five of its parishes. parents, children’s activities, exploration of Christian spiri- The new partnership at the village car boot sale and taking part The Brading cluster aims to promote gests a possible reduction in clergy work- haps across the whole deanery – is also part of community needs by engaging with teenage The themes of training for lay people and parenting skills courses, debt tuality. arrangements should also in the annual village fayre. the church at Arreton by putting it on the ing in Ryde and Sandown, and suggests the plan. culture, providing affordable credit facilities, working ecumenically have also been recog- management education, mar- In the Western Wards clus- enable the loss of one stipendi- There are also plans to visit the lone- tourist trail, holding more user-friendly an alternative way of supporting the rural Engagement with children and young peo- developing pastoral care and supporting fami- nised and should be implemented across the riage preparation, enrichment ter, a partnership group has ary priest from each cluster ly and support the less affluent. The clus- services, and keeping the church open for dean, which would free up the half-time ple, through providing church crèches and per- ly life. deanery. and renewal and drop-in facil- been created to bring together over the next 10 years. ter parishes hope to work together on prayer and exhibitions. clergy post of rural dean’s assistant.