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
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.
