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Prayer

Our vision for our prayer life at St. Andrew’s is that through prayer we may see clearly the path that God’s wants our Vision to take and that by prayer we may be strengthened and supported to make that Vision a reality for Oxshott.

A Working Group, under the leadership of Claire King, undertook an excellent Current State Assessment, and then created an Action Paper, which was agreed by the PCC on 28 February 2008.  

Following the implementation of various Actions, which together are making a real difference to our prayer life here at St Andrew's, the Working Group has stood down; oversight of prayer at St Andrew's was formally handed over to the PCC committee, Prayer and Worship, on 26 January 2010.  Mary-Beth Hawrish is now our Prayer Co-ordinator.

Stewardship

Our time, talents and money all come from God.  Our Vision for stewardship is that we make ourselves and all He has given us available to Him, to achieve His purpose in each of the streams He has revealed to us.

We have recently started the work on this.  Neil Anderson and key members of St Andrew's helped complete the Current State Assessment, which was presented at the PCC Awayday on 17 July 2010. The next step will be the drafting of an Action Paper, for agreement by the PCC.

Communications

Our Vision is to communicate St. Andrew’s to the wider community, ensuring the village knows what we stand for and about everything we do.

A Working Group headed by Nicki Galazka undertook this very thorough Current State Assessment, which was agreed by the PCC on 5 June 2008.  The group then produced a series of Actions that were agreed by the PCC - these included a new logo and 'house style', redesigned stationery and re-written leaflets, etc. the rollout of which started in 2009.  Further work on external communications is now in hand.

Organisational Competency

Our vision is that we are well-organised and happy to serve God in whatever way He requires of us with a strong and capable leadership team, a wide network of well-supported, trained and gifted volunteers and suitable resources to do God's work.

We have not yet started the work on this topic.

Buildings

We are now looking at the Buildings that serve us here in Oxshott; Richard Preston lead the Working Group tackling this, and a detailed Current State Assessment was agreed by the PCC on 18 March 2009; this sets out how our buildings measure up!  Do read it.

Richard and the group also produced a 'Statement of Needs', agreed by the PCC, and we are in the process of appointing a firm of architects to do a Feasibility Study; this will aim to outline a few options for changes to our buildings that might meet our needs.  Watch this space!

Also see what is happening with the Vision Streams

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