Following an open Parish meeting to discuss a Mission strategy within the Parish, the PCC has set the following targets:
1. To hold a Fan the Flame teaching week within the Parish.
Initially, Fr Luke to make contact with the team to discuss timescale, and an open Parish evening during Advent 2006 to hear from a Parish which has recently run a FTF week.
2. To improve financial reporting to the PCC and the wider Parish. The Finance Committee to produce an annual budget which will be reviewed quarterly by the PCC.
3. To work towards 80% net costs to the Common Fund within five years, and to budget accordingly.
4. To work towards a stewardship campaign in conjunction with the Area Finance Adviser. To continue encouraging all tax payers to use Gift Aid, and all members of our congregation to use the Envelope Scheme, and to produce information stickers to go with the occasional/visitor envelopes explaining their purpose.
5. To seek to work ecumenically with the local Baptist church and the Roman Catholic church in producing publicity. PCC to appoint representatives to co-ordinate this target.
6. To make regular pilgrimages and hold social events
(Suggestions made include: Westminster Abbey, Palace of Westminster, St Alban’s Abbey, Winchester Cathedral, The Watercress Line steam railway, Duxford Air Museum, ten-pin bowling, establish a cinema club and a mens group). To establish a social committee responsible for organising these events.
7. To hold an annual Quiet Day.
8. To review our use of the church buildings, and to produce a guide book for St Dunstan’s and resource material (eg. DVD/literature) for local schools and organisations who make use of the buildings. Churchwardens to engage with local schools to see what material would be useful to them for local history, geography, RE etc.
The PCC will review these targets, and progress, at each PCC meeting.
