Pastor's Report Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
In the last year we have met every w￿k for a Sunday service, with a
children's church. Once a month we have a Café Church, which is an
informal family service seated at tsbles with food available. This is
geared for children and is very relaxed and perfect for people to bring
friends who wouldn t normally go to church. We now have some more
people who attend church.
We have also developed our pa team, bought new equipment, and
developed our worship team. We continued with our weekly Sunday
lunch group called 'Lunch Group, until September of this year. This was
an ideal group for people in church who are alone, for those who are
lonely and to invite people from the local community. We have this
stopped this group tem￿rarIlY, due to lack of volUnt￿rs.
We continue our three W￿klY LIFE Groups. In the w￿k there is also a
prayer meeting and worship prattice.
As a church we have employed a part time families and children's
worker for the last two and a half years, to visit some of the local
primary schools to lead acts of worship and help with lessons. She leads
two After School Clubs, supported by a great team, in two of the local
primary schools. she has also liaised with local community groups
helping with their focKI share clubs. She is due to finish after Christmas
and we hope to take on a volunteer for a year, from a national
organisation.
We continue to develop our church leadership team, and one of the
leaders has attended a leadership training programme. We continue to
m￿t once a month and liaise regularly throughout the W￿k. We have
recently attended the Ground Level National Leaders Conference in
Swanwick. We also have five trUSt￿S and have done a lot of work to
ensure that we are acting very professionally and efficiently as a charity.
Our Governance leader and trust￿ ensures that we comply strittly to all
the legal stipulations and our safeguarding leader ensures that we
comply with all the safeguarding stsndards.

We have continued to support an event called Str￿t Church by
attending each W￿k, and with financial support and donations of food
to people who are struggling financially in a local estate. And we have
our own food bank which we have also used to help local people who
are struggling. We will also be working in partnership with a local
families and children's organisation this year to provide bags of food and
presents for 16 local families. We will again be sending Boxes of
essential items to children around the world through a missionary
organisation.
As a leadership team we rn￿t with other church leaders regularly. We
have joined in with other churches to put on events for the benefit of
local people.
One large event we held in July was our'church Festival,, at Berry Hill
Park, with a joint worship band, a national gospel illusionist, and a
national speaker. We had a lot of people attend.
There was also the Easter Churches Together witness which we took
part in.
We have also organised various events as a church as well as our
normal activities, such as ,
Passover Meal
Harvest Sunday
Praise, Prayer and Prophecy
Event
Mens and Ladies events
A church discipleship course
A gospel illusions training event
A baptism service
An Easter event, giving Easter eggs away outside a local supermarket
Later this year we will also be organising a Church Pub Quiz, a Church
Christmas Meal, carol singing and giving away chocolates outside a local
supermarket, a Remembrance servi￿, a nativity *rvice and other
church events.

We now have a new website.
We continue to support other charities regularly and tithe as a church to
many different Christian organisations such as Open Doors, Tear Fund,
Youth for Christ, Ground Level. One of our leaders is a volunteer with
Prison Ministries, so we support her.

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