Deanery – Mission and Action Plan Update, May 2018

Planned for 2017/18 Achieved 2017/18 Planned for 2018/19 Sandra Millar’s Life Event training and Sandra Millar came to speak. Leominster Team has resources and has made a Resources to be shared with whole Deanery resources start . Maintaining/growing school links Steel Pan group founded in Kingsland. “Pans & Pizza” held on Friday nights in Continuation and further development of links Church & ending in Rectory. Has brought in children from unchurched families. Leintwardine Primary S chool & governor involvement. Expanded musical events at Kingsland People who joined choir for Messiah etc have stayed on in regular church Ongoing choir . Gaining recruits for Open the Book and Growing. Kingsland Open Book on 3rd Sundays. Messy Church now happening Ongoing . Messy Church there. Messy Church has continued at and the leaders there Canon Pyon considering Open Book Easter and Pentecost attended training with national leaders Jane Leadbetter& Rachel Hill Brown. experience in 2019 Open Book continued at Canon Pyon. Ope n Book weekly in Leintwardine Primary. Better publicity for events and news Efforts ongoing , incl uding Facebook . Ongo ing More effective use of media New deanery synod website . Training for laity in leading Services of the Growth in lay - led services (especially in covering Need to use School of Ministry resources to train lay Word, and using at Eucharist interregnum/illness/sabbatical) leaders. Whole deanery focus on training. Ecumenical activities Growth at Orleto n Ongoing Session with Bp Michael Bourke re Lutheran links. Curate has been on a Possibly forging link with Lutherans in Germany course in Germany. Involvement with Community of Cross of Nails through Orle ton Sangha twice monthly at Adforton Ongoing Bible Study Groups in all areas Ongoing Communion taken to care homes and to individuals Ongoing Patronal , Lammas, Harvest , Rogation and Plough Sunday services ; Ongoing social events Quiet Hour services ( W igmore A bbey ) – liturgy & silence Ongoing Acting for refugees Van runs to Calais with goods for refugee s. More community action Support for ‘People in Motion’ (refugees abroad with blankets & toiletries ) Family brunches Some brunc h es ( W igmore A bbey ); fortnightly meals after morning service Ongoing (except brunches) ( Kingsland ); fortnightly meal in pub organised by church couple ( Kingsland ), “Tea and Hymns” in winter months ( Kingsland ) CPAS/Thrive programme Yes, extra parishes and several peopl e involved Ongoing Intern scheme Yes, one new intern this year; and one former intern training at Mirfield Probable new intern

Planned for 2017/18 Achieved in 2017/18 Planned for 2018/19 Sending Pioneer candidate to BAP Yes; also candidate from W igmore A bbey recommended for ordination training Sept 2018 Help/training for parish officers Some parishes attended training for churchwardens about church buildings, Ongoing property, churchyards and faculties. Training also for officers on money matters and go od housekeeping. Meeting also for treasurers and with Richard Jones . Mixed generation mission at Croft Croft is church of special interest. Build up links with National Trust. Parish Giving Scheme starting in various parishes Extend to other pa rishes and continue Wigmore Abbey supported Leominster Community Larder financially and with Ongoing food . So did Canon Pyon group, also donating Harvest Festival monies. Lent lunches supporting charitable causes (W igmore A bbey ) Ongoing Curate’s daily Facebook poem during Lent Church 10,000 per annum footfall through shop etc Ongoing Julian Prayer Group established (Team area). Ongoing Fellowship of Contemplative Prayer (W igmore A bbey) . Ongoing Carers’ Support Group monthly (W igmore A bbey ) Ongoing Pilgrim Group thriving, growing, overflowing, with spinoff to reaching out Engagement with “Thy Kingdom Come” (M ortimer group ), making banners Wal k ing the Mortimer Trail. A ‘ Walking Church ’ ? for cathedral service; 24 hours of prayer for the environment; 4 walks starting at Leinthall Earls (Pilgrimage & Pubs) drawing in all ages and many men. Reordering completed in Kings Pyon as a community space with book sales. Follow up sugg estions of café church at Kings Pyon. Wellington reordering is in progress Making other buildings similarly fit for purpose Canon Pyon has undergone Safeguarding foundation module training with Mandy McPhee Improving cross - benefice links . More inter - parish collaboration over events. Services out of church, eg in pubs Ensuring churches are inclusive. Disability audit in churches. Dementia/mental health training (Synod speaker?). Pet service planned Involving children by training them to be servers. Confirmation planning. Developing Community Brokers Scheme New concert series (at least 3/year), Leintwardine Ch

As discussed at Pastoral Committee held at Court Farm, Canon Pyon on Thursday 3rd May 2018 , Mrs Lydia Davies in the chair. J ohn Tyson, Secretary 14 May 2018