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Bishop Eton Parish Awakening Plan
Contributors to plan	Attendees at Parish Awakening (PA) Day 10 October 2015	Responsibility to ensure plan is actioned	Parish Core Team (PCT)
Objectives strengthening our parish communities becoming more inspired by the conviction of God’s gifts allowing God’s gifts in us to flourish renewing our commitment to every aspect of parish life re-energising the younger generations ensuring that everyone feels included fully in parish life ensuring that many more people take responsibility and play a part in the many activities which contribute to the lives of both parishes providing an opportunity for people to commit, to help out, to volunteer and to become more actively involved in parish activities by signing up
Success criteria BE parish community strengthened BE strengthened links with St Mary’s community Parishioners more inspired by the conviction of God’s gifts God’s gifts flourishing Renewal of commitment Younger parishioners playing their part in parish life Housebound enabled to play their part in parish life Everyone feels included fully in parish life People take responsibility and play a part in the parish organisations People volunteer and to become more actively involved in parish groups		Desired outcomes Increase in Membership of each parish group and organisation Mass attendance Parishioner input into liturgy as e.g. musicians and readers Eucharistic Ministers Funeral Ministers Volunteers coming forward Retention of children and families following first communion Young people taking more responsibility for parish life 20+ people attending each workshop session 100% outreach to housebound Volunteers joining new organisations in sustainable numbers

The actions in the plan have been divided into categories. These have been displayed in a tabular form. The list below contains links which will allow you to jump to the category you are interested in.

Welcoming, Communications, Parish Organisations, New Organisations, Workshops, Volunteers, RYM, Liturgy, Links with Schools, Catechesis, Spirituality, Links with St. Mary's, Finances, Re-awakening Conference

Welcoming - coordinated by Kris Reeds

ACTION	Who?	When?
Set up welcoming teams for each Mass	K Reeds	November
Welcome notice board in porch	K Reeds	November
Be more welcoming to strangers at Mass	All parishioners	Daily
Welcome notice to be included in bulletin	K Reeds	Weekly
Tea and coffee served after Mass on occasions	K Reeds	Monthly
Produce a visitors’ leaflet	J Holden	March
Supply welcome cards	J Holden	December
Produce a History of the Church booklet	C Allmand	February
New parishioners to complete and return census forms	Household	On arrival
Ensure census forms are available	K Reeds	Daily
If details change, parishioners to ensure census forms are completed and returned	Each household	When necessary
Letter of welcome and information sent to new parishioners as part of welcome pack	K Reeds	On receipt of census
Ensure welcome is offered, particularly to those joining BE from closed parishes	All parishioners	Daily
Social afternoon for new parishioners Time scale modiied. A social afternoon will take place on Saturday 15th October at 1pm	K Reeds	October 2016
Parish Celebration and BBQ	A Connor	July 2016

Communications - coordinated by Kris Reeds

ACTION	Who?	When?
Ensure activities are published in the bulletin	Chairs of group	Weekly
Ensure activities are published in BE Alive	Chairs of group	Monthly
Ensure activities are posted on website	M Zilnyk	Weekly
Advertise certain activities in St Mary’s bulletin as appropriate	K Reeds	Ongoing
Welcoming signage/notice board outside church	J Byrne	March
Display the work of various groups in Church or FMHall	T Brophy	Easter
Bulletin notice inviting agenda items for PCT meetings	K Reeds	ongoing
PCT meetings posted in porch and circulated by email to full Pastoral Council	K Reeds	ongoing
Annual meeting of Pastoral Council	A Connor	January
Installation of webcam to be considered The proposal of a webcam was included in the Heritage Application. The Application was rejected, therefore there will be no web-cam in the forseeable future.	J Byrne	March

Parish organisations - coordinated by Nick McLeod

ACTION	Who?	When?
Pulpit addresses	Chair of group	Jan/Feb
Organisations to communicate information to website manager	Chair of group/ M Zilnyk	Weekly
Organisations to send updated details for new parish directory	Chair of group A Connor	January 2016
Organisations to contribute to displays in Church and hall	Chair of group/ T Brophy	September
Organisations to contribute article to BE Alive	Chair of group/	Monthly
Seek to welcome new members of all ages into the group	All group members	Always
Groups to offer talks about their work in St Mary’s Parish	Chair of group	April
Groups from St Mary’s to be invited to talk about their work in BE	Chair of St Mary’s groups	April

New organisations - coordinated by PCT

ACTION	Who?	When?
Establishment of Women’s Group across both parishes	F Chambers and C McVey	December 2015
Establishment of Youth Justice & Peace group	S McGeehan	November
Establish a youth committee/council/team	F Sibert	April 2016
Establish a website team There were a few volunteers, unfortunately due to other committment they are no longer available.	M Zilnyk	January

Workshops - coordinated by Ann Connor

ACTION	Who?	When?
Re-run series of workshops held at PA day (venues: BE and St Marys)	Presenters	Sept 2016
Organise new workshops - topics suggested in PA report (venues: BE and St Marys)	A Connor	Sept 2016
Upload presentations onto website following re-run of workshop programme. Presenter to forward as appropriate,	Presenters/ M Zilnyk	Sept 2016

Volunteers - coordinated by PCT

ACTION	WHO?	When?
Invite everyone to play their part		Ongoing
Follow up on contact details		Ongoing
Publish `jobs to be done` when required in bulletin or email volunteers directly		Ongoing
Volunteer transport rota for those who need it to Mass		Ongoing
Individuals to volunteer their services		Ongoing

RYM - coordinated by Margie Zilnyk

ACTION	Who?	When?
RYM group meeting for faith sharing and social engagement	P Murphy	Fortnightly
RYM group to attend Archdiocesan events	P Murphy	Occasionally
RYM group to attend national events	P Murphy	Occasionally

Liturgy - coordinated by Christopher Allmand

ACTION	Who?	When?
Housebound to receive weekly prayers of intercession	SVP/Ministers of Eucharistic	Weekly
Sunday and weekday Mass ministries to involve new volunteers	Rota leader	Ongoing
More parishioners to input into ministries eg music, reading	All	Ongoing
Organise transport for those who need it to Mass	SVP	Weekly

Links with schools - coordinated by Frances Sibert

ACTION	Who?	When?
Parish priest makes visits to schools	Fr T Buckley	Weekly
Parish Core Team in contact with 5 headteachers	F Sibert	Regularly
St Julie’s prints BE Alive	T Alderman	Monthly

Catechesis - coordinated by Tricia Brophy

ACTION	Who?	When?
Baptism programme	D Allanson /K Forrest	Ongoing
With You Always – preparation of primary children for Eucharist and Confirmation programme	T Brophy	Ongoing
RCIA group programme	J Keeley	Ongoing

Spirituality - coordinated by Jenny Holden

ACTION	Who?	When?
Spirituality focus week The Novena marking 150 years of the Icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help took the place of a spirituality focus group.	J Holden	September
Rosary prayer group	M McCrossan	Daily
Divine Mercy prayer	M McCrossan	Fridays
Bible Study group	R Poole	Fortnightly
Exposition	J Holden	Wednesdays
Holy hour	M McCrossan	1^st Fridays
Churches Together in Mossley Hill prayer group	P Maloney	Monthly
Meditation Group	Sr Jean	Weekly
Provide pilgrimage opportunities	Anybody
Year of Mercy – programme and communications		2016
Year of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour – programme and communication		June 2016

Links with St Mary’s - coordinated by Kris Reeds

ACTION

Who?

Coordinator?

When?

Advertise activities in St Mary’s bulletin as appropriate

K Reeds

Kris Reeds

Weekly

BE organisations to offer talks about their work in St Mary’s Parish if appropriate

Chair of group

Finances - coordinated by Dominic Murphy

ACTION	Who?	Coordinator?	When?
Application to heritage lottery for funding (Application Rejected)	J Byrne/ D Murphy	Dominic Murphy	November
New contract to be established for paper recycling	Finance team		December
Generate income through Gift Aid	Finance team		Ongoing
Continue remedial repairs throughout Church site	J Byrne		Ongoing