Church Inside Open Meeting

Introduction

Timing: Start at 12:45pm, ca. 10 minutes (allow for flexibility) Speaker: Michael

• Welcome
• Opening prayer
• Purpose: Inform, inspire and involve
• Scene setting and re-stating of overall vision. "I've started, so I’ll finish!"
• Overview over the meeting

Objectives

The overall objective is to prepare the church for the next decades. In particular, the objectives are as follows (in no particular order):

• Flexibility
  • To build a sense of community
  • To seat more people
  • To align the seating with the New Testament model of the church
  • To align the seating with different service styles
  • To improve the usability of the church for extra-service activities
• Worship
  • To draw people into the presence of God
  • To enhance the worship
• Welcoming environment:
  • To improve the accessibility of the church and the welcoming of new comers; to provide an open and friendly environment

Questions about objectives

Scope of the project

• repair and painting of damaged surfaces
• main entrance (glass doors vs. porch)
• pews
• floor
• chancel area
• lighting
• audio/visuals
• chancel area?
• windows?

Time scales

Finish by summer 2012, 140th birthday of the church.

Transformation of other Churches

• St. Stephen's, Tonbridge

• St Patrick's, Wallington

• St Mary's Church, Ambleside

Proposed Changes

Timing: Start at 1:00pm

Overall co-ordination: Steven

Introduction

Timing: no more than 2 minutes

Speaker: Steven

• Introduction to the ‘briefing’ to the church membership on outline structure for the meeting and the plans for the project.
• Steven to link and ‘call up’ each speaker in turn (not all four speakers at the front together – too ‘heavy’)

Vision 21C Part III and Removal of Pews

Timing: 3-4 minutes

Speaker: Heather

• An overview of ‘Phase 3’ – the completion of the overall ‘vision’.
• Linkage between Phases 1 and 2 and what we now plan to do inside church – outline of the various ‘key’ elements.
• Removal of pews – central to planning

Glass Doors

Timing: 3-4 minutes

Speaker: Sue

• Historic ‘barrier’ to entry to church for non-believers
• Need for Christians to be seen at worship.
• Reflection on ‘missed opportunity’ in mid-1980s – plea to not ‘make the same mistake again’

Windows

Timing: 3-4 minutes

Speaker: Howard

• The windows – the glory of the existing church windows and the fact that they currently cannot be seen properly.
• Architect’s view and vision on what could be possible – reflection on Phases 1 and 2.

Welcome

Timing: 3-4 minutes

Speaker: Wendy

• Church as a ‘warm’, comfortable place – not cold and off-putting.
• Desire to create a church worship space that people would be happy to come into.

Cost

Timing: No more than 2 minutes

Speaker: Steven

• Very brief statement on estimated cost, outline programme for planned works and construction strategy (‘who does what’)

Tomb Stone Layout?

Speaker: Michael

Lighting?

Speaker: Michael

AV?

Speaker: Michael

Interactive Session

Timing: 1:30pm Participants: Groups

• Break into groups (number of groups depends on how many present) and invite church to ‘dream dreams’.
• Drawings, pens and cut outs (Marc’s suggestion). If group members have questions – add to sheet.
• CCC Inside group members to join each group and facilitate discussion. No general feedback at the end from every group!
• Groups will be ask to complete the feedback form.
• Each group will given the following items:

Feedback form

Print outs of the floor plan: 2 each (so groups can start again if necessary)

Paper benches: 34 long ones, 12 short ones (need to be to scale to fit on the floor plan)

Chair stickers: about 100 round stickers (do not need to be exactly to scale)

Paper porch: 1 each

Paper glass doors: 1 each

Marker for prayer area: 1 each

Marker for worship band: 1 each

Marker A/V desk: 1 each

Coloured pencils (for drawing)

Glue(for sticking pieces on the plan): 1 each

Wrap Up

Timing: 2:10pm Speaker: Michael

• Sum up, thanks, promise that we will look at everything suggested
• Prayer to close.