PARISH PROFILE AND STATEMENT OF NEEDS 2017 Diocese of Guildford 2 Contents Welcome and Overview ……………………………...4 Some Facts and Figures ………………………...........17 Our Location ...……………………………………….5 Finances ……………………………………..……...18 Vision, Mission and Purpose ………………….. …..6-7 Seale, Puttenham and Wanborough - The Ministry Team …………..……………………….8 Around the Area ……….……………………………19 The Rest of the Team - Pastoral Care ………………..9 Our Churches and Communities ………………....20-23 Communication ……………………………………..9 The Rectory …………………………………..…….24 Worship and Pattern of Services ….……………...10-11 Godalming Deanery ……………………………….25 Occasional Offices, Music and Worship………….......12 Guildford Diocese Mission Strategy - .……………...25 Children and Young People ………………………....13 “Transforming Church, Transforming Lives” Encouraging and Exploring Faith, Outreach, Statement of Needs and Person Specification ...…….26 Fun and Fellowship ……………………………...14-15 Schools ….…………………………………………..16 Appendix A - Attendance …………………………..27 3 Welcome and Overview Welcome to our Parish Profile. We hope that Our Parish is a good place to live with a it will enable you to consider prayerfully our strong community spirit, a caring and vacancy for a new Rector and perhaps you committed church community and will feel God’s calling to come and work with dedicated lay members to support the us. Ministry Team. It attracts many different Our Parish includes a group of 4 villages. people. Some are longstanding members These are Seale and The Sands, Puttenham of the community who have supported and Wanborough. They are situated in the not just the church but other areas of the beautiful Surrey Hills between Guildford parish throughout their lives. Some are and Farnham. Our villages are delightfully recent retirees keen to be involved in different and each has a church with a parish life. There are also an increasing character of its own and welcomes all. number of people with families, including those with young children. Despite being in an area of outstanding natural beauty, we are close to the towns While supporting the needs of existing of Guildford, Farnham and Godalming parishioners, we are making mission plans and are only 40 minutes from London by for growth and change. We are particularly train. developing mission strategies to engage with our families and young people and “The Church of Tomorrow”? strengthen links with the community. Our Parish needs our new Rector to be No, “The Church of Today” someone who is able to lead and manage change sensitively and effectively and help us villages; someone with passion for bringing to develop our mission plans, especially in people together; someone who can lead and line with the new Diocesan goals influence people of all ages but particularly “Transforming Church, Transforming inspire the young; and someone who can Lives”. help us grow together both spiritually and in We hope to find someone with vitality and practical ways. enthusiasm for sharing ministry with our 4 Our Location If you like what you have read so far, this will help you find us. Our Parish is located on the western end of the North Downs between Guildford and Farnham. It stretches over a distance of about 8 miles east to west and about 3 miles north to south. Puttenham, Seale and The Sands are on the southern slope of a chalk ridge known as the “Hog’s Back” along which runs the A31. Wanborough Village is on the north side closer to Puttenham, although the civil parish stretches over the Hog’s Back to the south. Farnham Parish of SPW Diocese of Guildford Google Parish of Seale, Puttenham and Wanborough 5 Vision, Mission and Purpose - The Challenge Our Transforming Vision - "Linking lives across the generations through the Gospel" The Challenge The Group made recommendations to improve service experiences During the last few years we have spent much time in prayer and and new services like Taizé Worship have been introduced. Service discussion over the demographics of our congregations compared to patterns have been changed but there is still more work to be accomplished. the demographics of the parish as a whole and our need to grow. Our challenge is how to grow the church across the generations so Church Growth - Outreach Committee that we reflect the whole family of Christ. The Church Growth Group's remit was to "find and nurture new Actions members". In March 2015 working parties were set up to explore :- With the arrival of new families and with some work already in place, Traditional Church & Worship the first and main area of focus was children and young families. Church Growth In 2016 the PCC agreed that there was an ongoing need for this work The Purpose and renamed the Group the "Outreach Committee”. Members are To bring Good News to those outside Church representative of all villages in the Parish and cross the generations. To celebrate the Good News and our Church life It was decided early on that the route to grow our church community To offer a place of belonging from which to continue our was through introducing informal and interactive children’s services personal journey of faith and through wider participation in sociable, church-organised but not To uplift and inspire exclusively church-based events. These should have a varying degree Celebrating Traditional Church & Worship of traditional religious content so as to be inclusive and welcoming to all. The Traditional Group worked with the principle that “all services The Mission objective of the Outreach team is - should help people feel in touch with God”. They considered the needs of those who prefer more traditional services. They considered "Church Growth the next generation – finding and both words and music and how some services needed to be a time of reflection and contemplation, also a place of peace where people nurturing new and existing church members" could take an hour out of their busy lives and just sit and listen. 6 Vision, Mission and Purpose - The Next Steps Key Areas identified for the Mission Action Plan Mission Objectives for Outreach Group Planning After meetings and discussions in 2016, the following areas were The following objectives are being considered as next steps. highlighted for consideration in mission action planning. • To hold events outside the church building e.g. Village lunches, Holiday Club • To develop our corporate prayer life • • To continue developing new ways of engaging effectively with To have accessible and more informal church services including people of all ages, especially the young interactive children services • To build on our strengths of engaging with the community • To increase links with Puttenham School e.g. “Open the Book” Team • To develop opportunities for fellowship • • To develop confidence in talking about our faith and provide Transforming – To provide time to study and to discuss what opportunities for conversation and dialogue with others we hear at church • To develop different areas of pastoral care • To encourage families to travel across the villages • To value our unity and diversity by ensuring that our church • To work on ways to make music in church more energising and councils are representative of all generations engaging Where Next We look forward to working with our new Rector as we examine other areas to develop and explore. 7 Meet the Ministry Team “We are all looking forward to working with our new incumbent.” Delia Orme - Associate Minister Norman Evans - Associate Minister Susie Felix - Pastoral Assistant Chris Tuckwell - LLM (Reader) PTO Geoff Graham - Music Director Marcus Bateman - LLM 8 The Rest of the Team Pastoral Care Communications The Rest of the Team Many of our church members also have Seale, Puttenham and Wanborough -SPW Members of the Ministry Team are active roles in other organisations, local clubs supported by the PCC, the Church and societies including giving their time as Contact us at - www.spw.org.uk Subcommittees and the Churchwardens :- councillors and school governors. Ann Payne (Seale and The Sands) All have an important part to play because Communications Up to date communications are crucial tools Ann Grundy (Seale and The Sands) Together Everyone Adds More. in achieving our mission goals. At the Sarah Webster (Puttenham) Pastoral Care moment, we have a Facebook page offering Anne Concanen (Wanborough) Pastoral care is very important to us. current news about the Parish. You can also read our Sunday Supplement on our website Mike Randell is the Parish Treasurer Members of the Ministry Team have been and now many people subscribe to receive it Geoff Graham is employed by the Parish supporting the elderly, visiting and taking automatically by e-mail. Our electronic as Music Director and as Seale Verger. He communion to our two Care Homes, to our mailing lists allow anyone to join and keep in also has important parish printing duties. elderly and house bound parishioners and our touch with us. parishioners in hospital. Other dedicated groups of volunteers also We produce a monthly magazine called the contribute their time and talents to support They have been visiting and supporting the “Village News” containing news, events and the life of the Church. bereaved and the “All Souls Service” is an articles on church and village life. There is a important part of that care. print run of 650 copies every month. They help with arranging and running services and contribute to worship, work with Members of the Ministry Team have also We also produce 2 directories - children and Puttenham Infant School, been preparing baptism parents and couples The Blackbird and House singing, playing the organ and bell ringing. who are planning marriage. Before baptism, Martins. These contain They care for the churches and churchyards, parents have been asked to sign a contact details of people in flower arranging and cleaning. commitment to bring their child to church. Puttenham and Their names are added to the e-mail list of Wanborough - Seale and They are involved with editing and families so that they can be invited regularly The Sands respectively.