‘A Mission Action Plan is a process of strategic planning that reflects on opportunities and resources available to a local church and informs a strategy to direct activities and decision-making over the coming years.’ Every Parish Church has priorities which will need resources to carry them out. So the costs of activities need to be balanced against the resources available. The main resource for churches is the financial contribution made by their parishioners; their main cost is the contribution paid to the Diocese for their work in organizing and resourcing the work of all their churches. At St Barnabas we are grateful for the generosity of our parishioners and our main priority is, as always, the worship of God.