{"id":667,"date":"2013-04-24T16:59:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2013-05-04T15:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T13:24:22","slug":"pcc-sub-group-mission-and-evangelism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/04\/pcc-sub-group-mission-and-evangelism\/","title":{"rendered":"PCC Sub group \u2013 Mission and Evangelism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>Latest Meeting held on 9.4.13 in the Parish Office<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Present:\u00a0 Norma McKemey, Martin Lee, Margaret Williams, Angela Wirdnam,\u00a0 Roger and Maria Morcumb<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Bible Study Group<\/b> \u2013 Having completed a successful five week study on Ecclesiastes the group will reconvene in a few months time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Christian Aid Project<\/b> \u2013 Margaret reported that groups within the church are beginning to advertise the fund raising activities that they will be doing.<\/p>\n<p><b>Neighbourhood Prayer<\/b> \u2013 prayer for the street where you live.\u00a0 Martin is to ask Steven Grosvenor if this can be put on our website with an explanation of what it is.\u00a0 Martin also introduced One Voice of Prayer \u2013 national and international prayer topics \u2013 and asked people to pray.\u00a0 This could be used in our partnership prayer diary.\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/prayfor.htm\">the new pages are now in place<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><b>Mission Giving <\/b>\u2013 Norma presented a paper on a suggested way to possibly see an increase in mission giving (see attached paper).\u00a0 Considerable discussion took place and it was agreed we would present this idea to the PCC in May with a recommendation that our giving should be to Christian charities.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deanery Mission <\/b>\u2013 We considered the idea of a Festival of Christian Faith in 2015 suggested in the Deanery Strategic Plan.\u00a0 The following points were made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s a good idea but only if we do it well<\/li>\n<li>Good speakers, possibly using TownGardens\u00a0and other large venues such as Lydiard Park<\/li>\n<li>Smaller events could also take place around town including, poetry, music, comedy.<\/li>\n<li>If this event is to be\u00a0ecumenical then other denominations need to be invited from the start\u00a0rather than being told the Anglican church is putting this on and being asked if they want to join in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Date of next meeting &#8211; Tuesday 28<sup>th<\/sup> May 2013, 7.30 p.m. in the Parish Office<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>Mission<\/b><b> Giving Proposal<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Currently Christ Church has 4 Mission-giving Sundays a year and the proceeds are divided between 6 organisations (The Willows, Swindon Youth for Christ, CPAS, Bible Society, CMS and Tear Fund) \u2013 two local, two national and two international.<\/p>\n<p>Following a discussion with Gareth Hutchinson, I am setting out a proposal which he suggested.\u00a0 Currently our mission giving has decreased significantly over the past few years.\u00a0 In an attempt to reawaken people\u2019s interest and enthusiasm for mission giving he suggests we continue to support one each from the current local, national and international organisations we give to and then ask the congregation for suggestions of organisations they might like to support.\u00a0 These would then be voted on and the top three would become part of our mission giving charities for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the 6 charities may be I suggest there should be a representative for each charity who would promote that charity especially in the two weeks leading up to the mission giving day for that charity.\u00a0 It is important that the congregation is kept up to date with information about these charities if we want them to support them.<\/p>\n<p>It is envisaged this arrangement would begin in 2014 if it is adopted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Meeting held on 9.4.13 in the Parish Office Present:\u00a0 Norma McKemey, Martin Lee, Margaret Williams, Angela Wirdnam,\u00a0 Roger and Maria Morcumb Bible Study Group \u2013 Having completed a successful five week study on Ecclesiastes the group will reconvene in a few months time. Christian Aid Project \u2013 Margaret reported that groups within the church are beginning to advertise the fund raising activities that they will be doing. Neighbourhood Prayer \u2013 prayer for the street where you live.\u00a0 Martin is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-evangelism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}