Teams

 
The Fabric Team
 
The Fabric Team will look after all aspects of the churchyard and church building, liaising with the church architect. The co-ordinator is Mr Harry Mills.
 
Likely tasks are:
  • Composting facility
  • Re-roofing of shed
  • Access and parking
  • New notice boards outside
  • Maintenance (tasks identified by our architect in his quinquennial (five-yearly) report
  • Implementing storage area changes
  • Dealing with drafts
  • Improving warmth and comfort
  • Lavatory
  • Kitchen facilities
  • Improvement of main liturgical areas, allowing access, more space, platform in front of rood screen
  • Organ enhancement
  • Chancel lighting
The Worship Team
 
 The tasks of the Worship Team are likely to be: 
  • Supporting the role of the verger (tidiness, cleaning, changing frontals, candles, etc)
  • Flowers
  • Co-ordinating worship-planning – are all the bases covered, Sunday by Sunday?
  • Developing the role of the sidesmen & women
  • Welcome and inclusion
  • Church decorating for festivals – ensuring banners, crib, paschal candle, and such things are in place
  • Ensure sound system is always functioning well
 
With the Fabric Team, to look at:
  • Choir robes for adults & maintain stock of children’s robes
  • Clergy vestments – maintain, clean, enhance
  • Altar frontals - ditto
  • Kneelers & Cushions possible new approach
The Communications Team
 
The Communications Team will be co-ordinated by Mrs Sharon Daniels in the Benefice Church Office. Its tasks are:
  • Visibility – publicise church activities in order to enhance community awareness and involvement:
  • Internal and external notice boards – up to date, relevant and tidy
  • Website / Internet
  • Ecumenical ‘support’ phone line – to develop this idea (which has PCC support) together with the Pastoral Team
  • Outreach activities – develop ideas with the Social Team
 
The Pastoral Team
 
This Team is now in place, consisting of our 6 newly-trained Lay Pastoral Assistants who will work with our Priest. They are:
Mrs Sarah Bailey, Mrs Juliet Bowell, Mrs Ann Lee, Mr Harry Mills, Mrs Fiona Norman and Mrs Chris Rolls
 
There will be another training course as and when further candidates offer themselves for this work.
 
Likely tasks, depending on perceived needs, time available, and the skills and interests of the LPAs, are: 
  • Visiting the sick, house-bound or bereaved people
  • Supporting families preparing for Christening of infants or children
  • Taking Holy Communion to people at home or in hospital
  • Being available as listening ears
  • Being ‘ambassadors’ for St Mary’s in the community
  • Responding to requests for support as and when the ‘help line’ is established
 
The Social Team
 
The co-ordinator for this team is Mrs Denise Hastings. This Team’s areas of responsibility are likely to be:
  • Catering
  • The Fete, and other fairs, bazaars etc
  • Coffee mornings & Lent lunches (ecumenical)
  • Outreach opportunities through hospitality, entertainment etc
  • Non worship-functions held in church, such as concerts