Refreshing the Vision

Last night in the Church of the Good Shepherd, deanery of Woodstock officers and members met with the Executive Archdeacon, the Ven. Geoffrey Hall, to engage the diocese and our own parish understand with a view to the future.

The focus was on visioning and stewardship, but not as one might expect. Stewardship is truly the management of all our resources, and as our Lord states time and time again we are the resources, the people of God. So in many ways last night was people raising, a development and investigation of a shared vision as parish, deanery and diocese. What is most important is to know that "the diocese is the parishes," and though "we are big, we are small." It is in our unity together that we are called by Jesus to be Church.

Here are some sights of last night.

The Archdeacon of Woodstock, the Ven. Walter Williams addresses the gathering.


Archdeacon Hall


The Power Point presentation


Some of the small groups (why is it that the Rev'd Hayes always has a coffee in his hand ;-)