Over the coming months, the Chaplaincy is developing a Mission Action Plan (MAP), a vision for the type of church that we want to be in 5 years’ time and the steps we need to get there. This is not just some ‘nice to have’ document that sits in the shelf. Rather, having a credible forward plan helps us to better explain our mission as a Church, focus our activities, take informed decisions, and use our resources more effectively.

Our aim is to launch the MAP on Advent Sunday, 30th November. In order to achieve that, we would like:

1. All members of the congregation to participate in a Consultation Process (Sept/Oct), which takes the form of an online questionnaire run by an organisation called ‘Holy Cow’,
2. Leaders of the 5 Chaplaincy Council Working Groups - Finance, Fabric, Outreach, Events, Liturgy – to consider how their area might change in 5 years and how we can shape that change (Sept/Oct/Nov), and
3. As many people as possible to attend a Congregational Vision Workshop (Nov) when we feedback the results of the consultation and together we discern our future.

Meanwhile the clergy team will be identifying changes in the Church’s wider context over the coming years and the Standing Committee will take responsibility for writing it all down and authoring the Plan.

You can find more information about the MAP on a bespoke webpage on the church’s site, using this link, https://stgeorgesmalaga.com/MAP/. You will see regular updates on that page, find the link to the Consultation Process questionnaire, and, in time, the link to book a place on the Congregational Vision Workshop. 

The picture above, a Citry on a Hill (Matthew 5:14), is our guiding image. Jesus said, ‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden’.