The Brickhills Benefice
Mission Action Plan 2012
Outreach
Great Brickhill
•Coffee morning for
volunteers
•Marriage &
parenting course
•Set up Mums &
Toddlers group
Bow Brickhill
•‘Get involved’
campaign
•Start a Sunday
School
Benefice
Stoke Hammond
•Youth Cafe / Youth Alpha
•Set up welcome group for
church and parishes
•Build on social events
•Develop further links with
schools
•Offer services in
secular venues
•Investigate church
youth group
•Pilot ‘back to church’
•Nativity tableau
Little Brickhill
•Ask residents what
would attract them
to church
•Investigate forming
‘friends of the
church’ group
Nourishment
Worship and Spiritual Growth
Great Brickhill
•Start a church band
•Make services easier
to follow
•Continue and
increase bible study
groups
Benefice
•Plan more informal services
for children, families and
youth – possibly café style
•Arrange Benefice quiet day
•Review service patterns
Stoke Hammond
•Arrange a parish quiet
day
•Continue and increase
bible study groups
Prayer
Deanery
• Investigate prayer
visitor training
• Investigate training
for parish visiting
Benefice
Open church for
prayer / quiet days
Great Brickhill
Stoke Hammond
• Prayer walking
• Set up a prayer room
• Make space for
meditation and
prayer within
services
Planning and Communications
Stoke Hammond
•Install noticeboard
•Prepare church leaflets and
headed paper
•Reinforce communications
within Benefice
Benefice
•Advertise services more
widely and forward plan
festivals and special services
•Update Benefice website
Bow Brickhill
•Use technology to
improve communications
– eChurch, village egroup,
website
•Appoint someone to take
on communication role
Little Brickhill
•Advertise services by
developing email,
benefice website, more
posters
Church Buildings
Great Brickhill
•Make more space –
remove some pews
Bow Brickhill
•‘Look into using
building for other
purposes than worship
•Improve accessibility
by installing path
Benefice
•Make building more userfriendly, install toilets,
kitchen
•Continue fundraising and
look into grants for
improvements
Little Brickhill
•Address physical
accessibility issues and
draw up action plan
•Explore increasing the
use of the building for
other purposes than
worship
Stoke Hammond
•Replace heating
•Keep church open more
The Brickhills Benefice
Mission Action Plan 2012