It's That Time Again

When the next Archdeacon's Visitation takes place, I warned the PCC, we will be expected to have a new Mission Action Plan in place with all our aims and objectives related to the diocesan Twelve Transformation Goals, so we may as well begin. These days I am less convinced that the whole Mission Planning process is a way of galvanising the life of a church community, but it still makes sense to bring laypeople on board with what has to be done - if only so that the workload can be better shared. The resulting PCC meeting - where we were just trying to add definite ideas to the broad themes we'd already identified - went on a bit, but it was surprisingly positive and productive. Perhaps after five years of thinking intentionally about the future, people are actually getting a taste for it!

I intended to get the whiteboard for this brainstorming exercise but that was behind a screen in the hall, the hall being occupied by the prisoners of Slimming World, so I reverted to a lower-tech alternative. The chalk, though, was the stuff I'd blessed for Epiphany, so that must have added divine approval.