Occasional Office Training

Are you involved in your local ‘parish office’, whether in person, by email, web enquiries or on social media? Are you new to the role, want a refresher or looking at how it can be relevant in your local context? Then this is the course for you!

In it, we will look at the obvious things needed to book weddings, baptisms and funerals but we’ll also look at the theological part of the parish office. How do we welcome people well and give them confidence to engage with their local church? How do we care for people when they’re coming into church at liminal moments of their life and how do we use the parish office to share the good news of the Gospel?

There is a key missional opportunity with occasional offices and them being booked through the parish office. People have made a choice to come to their local church and they need to be welcomed as soon as they walk through the door, which in itself takes courage and can be a frightening experience. This first point of contact with new people sets the scene for their relationship with church.

There is also a pastoral element of the parish office which is often forgotten. Whilst the local church may well see the parish office as an administrative function people often need pastoral support when they attend of people may just drop in to ask for help at a point of crisis and pastoral support is a key part of our ministry to those in our parish.

This will be a very relaxed, informal session where we can ask any questions that we have and share ideas, concerns or potential pitfalls.

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