GENEROSITY IN LEESFIELD PARISH
From the 25th February to the 3rd March we had a week of special services and events to celebrate and encourage thanksgiving and generosity here in Leesfield Parish. Everyone was involved, including our Worship for all Generations family and our Sunday School. Throughout the week we explored ways in which we can all help to keep our churches and schools growing, thriving and reaching out into our community. You can find out more below -
OUR PARISH VISION
“To grow as disciples of Christ and to share God’s love across the parish and beyond”
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO RUN A PARISH?
These are the firm foundations upon which we build our service to God here in this place.
Without them, everything we do is in vain.
Money – which maybe we don’t have quite so much of.
It costs almost £1,000 per week to run our churches and everything we do in Leesfield Parish. We don’t receive any outside funding – All our income comes from donations and fundraising by our own congregation members.
The largest item of expenditure is our Parish Share, which pays towards the cost of clergy, training and all the support which we receive from the Diocese of Manchester. Below you can watch a really helpful YouTube video which explains Parish Share in detail -
Because our income is always lower than our costs, we rely heavily on unpaid Volunteers helping with administration, maintenance and fundraising.
People – of all ages, from all backgrounds, and with many different gifts.
There are lots of people engaged in keeping our churches growing and thriving. Some of them you see every week at our services, helping to make everything run smoothly. There also others who are far less visible, but who are working quietly in the background in leadership, administrative, finance, maintenance and communications roles.
Most of our volunteers have several different roles in our churches and schools, which puts them under a lot of pressure, so we are looking for additional helpers to share the workload.
WHAT NEXT?
When you're next in church, meet the people who do some of the jobs in our parish – seen and unseen, find out what they do – how much time it takes and how often they do it.
Ask them how they became involved in the first place and what training and encouragement they received.
Take a look at the response form below, and think about what you and your family might want to help with. Some of the roles don't even exist yet - they are things we would love to do here in Leesfield Parish, but haven't yet got the volunteers we need to take them further.
You can hear from some of the people already volunteering in key roles in parishes around Manchester Diocese in this inspiring video -
There is much more information and description of individual roles on the Church Officers page of the Diocesan website, just click here - Church Officers Manchester Diocese
Training and support is available from Manchester Diocese, Oldham and Ashton Deanery and our own parish.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS - WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON!
