The purpose of the Pastoral team is To be responsible for overseeing the pastoral care of church members.

How do it do this?

  • Giving on going, regular support to housegroup leaders, by meeting with them at least once every 3 months , to pray with them for their groups.
  • Keeping in contact with leaders of the other groups within the church and meeting with them to offer prayer support.
  • To be available to meet requests from housegroup leaders for support with difficult issues, help in setting up 1:1's, counselling etc.
  • To be available to support the church leadership with pastoral care issues as requested.
  • To keep an up to date list of church memebers willing to help with the above, together with a list of those with specialist skills to help as required. If outside specialist help is required, to know how to access this.
  • To arrange leaders meetings 2/3 timsa a year, with a guest speaker when possible.

The team members are:-

Jenny Thomas
Paul Glenny
Domonic Beer
Corinne Pocock
Kathy Maguire
Myra Thompson