Planning
- Decide who you are going to invite - own church members, women's groups, other local churches.
- Date, time and venue - Date: spring, summer, autumn, is weather a
factor?; Time: clashes with other events, easy to get to and from for
people attending; Venue: does it have one main room and a few other
rooms which people can use to spread out for times of quiet?
- Book the speaker with BRF - Have a look at our current Quiet Day
programme and have a think about who you might like to be your speaker;
contact Claire Proudman to check availability and be put in contact with the
speaker.
- Cost - A speaker from BRF will cost between £150 to £250, plus travel expenses; calculate a budget for the lunches.
- Advertising your Quiet Day - Contact Claire Proudman to advertise it on the BRF
website or for help making fliers; put in your church newsletter;
sending fliers to local churches; always include information on the
date, time, speaker, venue and cost of the day.
- Catering - Decide
how you wish to cater for the lunch, and the tea and coffee breaks during the
day; look around for a reasonable quote from local caterers - about £5 per
person is a good price to go by; get in a team of helpers to buy in the lunch
from a supermarket and put together fresh on the day - don't leave it just up
to you, as you may well be too busy to organize it on the day itself.
- Contacting guests - One week before the day itself, contact guests with a map to the venue and
programme for the day.
On the day- Set-up - Organize any handouts and programmes into folders so loose
pieces of paper are not flying around; make name badges or labels for
all people attending; contact Claire Proudman to arrange for a BRF bookstall and
float to be sent.
- Welcome - Take the time to greet people, especially people who are unlikely to know others; serve tea and coffee.
- Speaker - Introduce the speaker, and lead some or all of the worship, if the speaker wishes.
- Break time - Ensure that the catering is ready to go for lunch time;
serve tea and coffee; cover the bookstall in case people want to buy
anything.
- Prayer team - You might want to have a team of people available to pray
with those attending, should they wish, during the times of quiet.
- Closing worship - The speaker may want you to lead closing worship - ten or fifteen minutes is a good average to aim for.
- Return books and float to BRF - Contact Claire Proudman and arrange for a courier to pick up any left-over books at your convenience.
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