The mission & ministry of St. Mary’s are coordinated by the Church Council through 9 Mission Action Teams, with responsibilities as follows. We are currently in the process of re-forming the teams, and so while some of them continue to meet, others are on pause for the moment.

Worshipping and Praying (Rev’d Canon Lisa Barnett)
Ministry Team Sidespeople Servers & lay ministers	Choir & Musicians Readers, intercessors, prayer ministry Bell-ringers & flower team	24/7 prayer Daily Prayer Prayer list

Deepening (Peter Fruin)
Home Groups Living Faith & ALMs	Lent Courses Seasonal Courses	Confirmation 1st HC

Growing (Cath Hatton)
Nursery	Children	Teenagers	Schools Team	Baptisms
Services & church visits Committee	Lighthouse Groups Kairos Holiday Club Toddlers	TGI The Core Youth Alpha Café Connect Cell Groups	Assemblies Class Visits Christmas services Governors	Baptism visitors Baptism preparation

Caring (Morag Davies )
Pastoral Team Hospital visits Home HC	Nursing homes Healing Services Informal care for elderly and sick	Bereavement ministries All Souls Service SANDS service

Serving (Nigel Stalley)
Local giving and links	International giving and links	Hospitality
HCT: foodbank, night shelter. FSW, Turning Tides, Hope In, Mother’s Union	Stephen’s Children, Tear Fund, Impact, The Loiyangalani Trust	Sunday lunches Thursday coffee mornings Coffee team Social Committee

Buildings (Stephen Benson and Nick O’Riordan)	Welcoming (TBC)
Church Cleaning and caretaker Church Centre Building Development Projects	Church Welcomers Flower Festival Seasonal Publicity Noticeboards

Finance (Greg Andrews)	Administration (Laura Fletcher)
PCC Treasurer & DCC Treasurer Stewardship Officer & Gift Aid Officer Money counting team	Church Administrator Administrative Volunteers

How the Mission Action Teams work at St. Mary’s

Each team carries out its annual objectives (as adopted in our Mission Action Plan or “MAP”) & reports back to the Church Council through representatives on the Council. It in turn has oversight of all the appropriate ministries (including any other groups, teams & councils) that are designated to it – thereby covering every facet of the ministry & mission of St. Mary’s.

Within the Church Council an additional Leadership Team (“LT”) exercises general spiritual leadership & oversight at St. Mary’s. The LT oversees MAP implementation on behalf of the Church Council, & LT members typically chair the other 9 Mission Action Teams. The LT is currently made up of the clergy and churchwardens, but may later expand to include further laity (the congregation being consulted to help recognise whom the members should be).

Every member of the Church Council will thus expect to serve on one (possibly two) of these Mission Action Teams (analogous to sub committees) as part of their duties. This structure, and our annual MAP objectives, provide the structure for our Church budget, accounts and AGM – with each Team reporting on progress in order to achieve clear understanding and a co-ordinated approach to our growth in ministry & mission.