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Growth PLAN

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The Weybourne Group of Parishes

 

in SERVICE

How best can we respond to human need by loving service?
How do we safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth?
How should we seek to transform the unjust structures of society?

 

 

What are the good things we are already doing?

  • Home Communions
  • Home visits
  • Monthly Joint Anglican/Methodist Over-60’s Club
  • Holt over-60’s Club run by Kelling congregation
  • There is much unreported and quiet support for those in need and in difficulty; people on the whole look out for each other – particularly the elderly and house-bound
  • Priests work in Kelling Primary and Sheringham Primary; Priest-in-Charge directed Summer Year 6 Play at Kelling
  • All Churches support outward giving at key moments in the year: Christmas, Lent, Harvest, Remembrance; respond to national/international emergency appeals; active links with Africa; USPG; Children’s Society; WaterAid; Royal British Legion; Global Care; Sight Savers International; The Leprosy Mission; Christian Aid; Zimbabwe; Harare; Ramallah.
  • Excellent stewardship of our church buildings as evidence that we care and wish to sustain the life of the church for the village community – churches and churchyards well-maintained; care of churchyards; Parish Share always paid in full
  • Active support for ‘Can Do Investment Fund’ in Salthouse, financed by Scarman Trust

 

What else is God wanting for us?

  • Follow-up to bereavement, Baptism and Marriage
  • Caring for the elderly and housebound
  • Supporting Young Mothers and toddlers
  • Pastoral contact in each village
  • Support for Sheringham Primary School – a nurture group
  • Work with other denominations i.e. Methodist, Baptist, Church Army and develop closer ties within the Deanery e.g. St Andrew’s, Holt
  • By these activities show the people of the benefice that we care, that we meet them where they are
  • Be active in our support for justice and freedom and concern for the environment
  • Explore support for the Kelling Therapeutic Centre for the vulnerable

 

What can we do this year?

·         Set up Pastoral Care Group to co-ordinate home visits and action

·         Nurture Group in Sheringham Primary School – links with Baptist Youth Worker

·         Meet with denomination groups and with the Deanery to form an action plan to address common needs