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Vicar’s Report St Peter’s Eastern Hill Annual General Meeting 25 th November 2012

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Page 1: Vicar’s Reportwebmail.stpeters.org.au/views/papers/Mission_action_plan.pdfTo help Vestry in developing a realistic strategic plan for congregational growth we are encouraging you

Vicar’s Report St Peter’s Eastern Hill

Annual General Meeting

25th November 2012

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Growing in God’s love

“God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them . . ..

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear . . ..

Those who say, ‘I love God,’ and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen. The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.”

1 John 4:16b, 18a, 20-21

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Growing in God’s Love

“We must love them both: those whose opinions we share and those we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth and both have helped us in the finding of it”

(St Thomas Aquinas)

“So I was taught that love is our Lord’s meaning”

(Julian of Norwich)

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Growing in God’s Love

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Mission Action Plan

“What is your vision for the parish Fr Hugh?”

“Where are you going to take us?”

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Overall Goal: Growth

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Overall Goal: Growth

Engaging the Results

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“Growing in God’s love”

Strategic Areas for Growth: Worship

Incorporation & Pastoral Care

Christian Education & Spiritual Growth

Services to the Disadvantaged & Mission Outreach

Stewardship of Time and Money

Electronic Communications & Links to City of Melbourne

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Mission Action Plan first draft-August 2012

22nd August 2012 Mission Action Plan 2012-15 (first draft)

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Over all goal: Growing in God’s Love Objective 1: To grow the worship services spiritually and numerically

Actions

Who

Expected Outputs

Timelines

Data collection

Consult parishioners and report on results Call a meeting to plan for growth of evensong attendance Call a Sunday School planning Meeting Call a meeting to plan for growth of High Mass attendance Implement new ideas that emerge from the meetings across the Sunday services

Vicar, Vestry, Ree Boddé Vicar, Fr Philip B., Rhys Arvidson, Guy Churchman … Vicar, +Graeme, Katherine Barnett, David Spriggs … Vicar & Priests, Peter Bryce, Adam Blackmore, Andrew Raiskums, Sue Skillington … … all the above and more …

60% surveyed; report Generate ideas for Evensong services Generate ideas for Sunday School Generate ideas for High Mass 50% growth in total Sunday attendance by 2015 across the Sunday services (at least 60 new parishioners regularly attending worship)

Sept-Nov 2012 Sept 2012 Oct 2012 Nov 2012 Nov 2015

Questionnaire Worship attendance records Service register

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Parish Survey !

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St Peter’s Eastern Hill Parish Survey

Dear friends, In the recently published Church Life Survey (CLS) 36% of St Peter’s parishioners (sample of 111 people; for full report www.stpeters.org.au) wanted the parish leadership to ‘pay more attention to growing into a larger congregation.’ This imperative directly correlates with what I have heard many parishioners say during my initial period of intensive pastoral visiting as your new Vicar. My own analysis of the 2010-2011 parish attendance records also supports the CLS findings, indicating a 27% decline in people attending Sunday services over that period. The good news is that the preliminary 2012 figures show an arrest of this decline and a tentative 3% growth across the five Sunday services. With your support I am confident that this growth will continue. To help Vestry in developing a realistic strategic plan for congregational growth we are encouraging you to complete this questionnaire. It should take about 15 minutes of your time. We are asking you for your feedback and comment because parish growth clearly is not just a task for the Vicar and Vestry. It is the responsibility of every member of the congregation. The fact is our wonderful parish will not grow spiritually or numerically without your help! Your name or any other identifying information will not be required. Any report produced from this survey will only include summaries of the responses, and will never provide information that would allow someone to identify an individual. If you have any questions please contact Kosta, the Parish Administrator. Additional surveys are available on the web site: www.stpeters.org.au. There will be an opportunity to complete the survey after morning worship today. Otherwise all completed surveys should be returned by date.month.year electronically ([email protected]) or by post to: Parish Administrator, St Peter’s Eastern Hill 15 Gisborne St, East Melbourne 3002 Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey, your feedback is hugely important to us as we seek God’s guidance as a parish for the future. Kind regards,

The Rev’d Dr Hugh Kempster, Vicar & Chair of Vestry

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Parish Survey

1)  WORSHIP

!  90% agree that sermons are directly related to scripture & lived experience

! 90% agree that servers are well trained and effective

! 86% agree that quality liturgical music is used

! 75% disagree that parish makes sufficient effort to involve youth and young adults

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Parish Survey

2) INCORPORATION & PASTORAL CARE

!  66% disagree that newcomers are welcomed

!  87% disagree that sufficient efforts are made to reach non-practicing Anglicans and non-Christians

!  89% agree that it is important to offer pastoral care to the local hospitals

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Parish Survey

3) CHRISTIAN ED. & SPIRITUAL GROWTH

!  76% disagree that we provide sufficient faith formation for children & young adults

!  69% disagree that there are enough retreats and teaching about prayer in the parish

4) DISADVANTAGED SERVICES & MISSION OUTREACH

!  69% disagree that we influence wider community through outreach & social comment

! 76% disagree the parish fosters global solidarity & outreach through overseas mission initiatives

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Parish Survey

5) STEWARDSHIP

!  76% agree that there is a high level of commitment to St Peter’s

!  68% disagree that the parish provides good stewardship of financial and other resources given by parishioners

6) ELECTRONIC COMMS & LINKS TO THE CITY

!  76% agree that electronic communications are central to parish outreach

!  86% disagree that parish makes good use of business contacts

!  92% disagree that parish is effective in reaching apartment dwellers

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Mission Action Plan 2012-15

St Peter’s Eastern Hill

“Growing in God’s Love”

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Growing in God’s Love