About iMPACT: What iMPACT does

There are many churches in Scotland who run their own mission or holiday club activities during the summer and find it useful to be affiliated to iMPACT. This can help churches in a number of ways:

independent facilitation, guidance and enabling in mission planning or strategy
offering advice (e.g. how to plan a mission; working with volunteers; what resources to use)
help and guidance on policies & procedure (e.g. child protection issues)
prayer support
publicity
access to free resources (e.g. from parachutes to practical books on how to run mission)
directing potential volunteers to their team
sometimes offering the support of Core volunteers to home run teams

For some home run summer missions, churches find that just "being part of something bigger” is of encouragement and benefit to them.





			Summer Mission Youth Club Planting Supporting Home Run Mission Other Mission Activities

	Summer Mission The majority of iMPACT work involves running missions throughout the summer. Each iMPACT team will run a mission for a week or fortnight in partnership with a local Church of Scotland. The partnership is designed to last for three or four summers, during which time the congregation can gain experience and confidence in mission. In this way it is hoped that mission activities can be sustainable so that the team can move on to work with a new church location, whilst the host church can continue with it's own mission activities. There are a good number of churches around Scotland who have continued to run missions in this way because of previous partnership with iMPACT teams. Youth Club Planting iMPACT is also piloting another approach to working with churches to reach out to young people. This is our Youth-club Planting scheme. This model entails a small Team working in partnership with your church, one night a month over a year, in order to establish a youth club/café/fellowship etc. We have recently had 2 pilot projects running in Robroyston and Mearns Parish Kirk.


	Supporting Home Run Missions There are many churches in Scotland who run their own mission or holiday club activities during the summer and find it useful to be affiliated to iMPACT. This can help churches in a number of ways: independent facilitation, guidance and enabling in mission planning or strategy offering advice (e.g. how to plan a mission; working with volunteers; what resources to use) help and guidance on policies & procedure (e.g. child protection issues) prayer support publicity access to free resources (e.g. from parachutes to practical books on how to run mission) directing potential volunteers to their team sometimes offering the support of Core volunteers to home run teams For some home run summer missions, churches find that just "being part of something bigger” is of encouragement and benefit to them.



	Other Mission Activities iMPACT is also involved in mission activities out with the summer period. Often in the Autumn term iMPACT will engage in running a High School mission in partnership with a local church. During a High School mission a team of experienced volunteers will engage in a wide variety of activities. A typical week in a secondary school could combine any number of the following activities: assemblies, R.E. classes, P.S.E. classes, lunch time groups, after school groups, evening concerts, and being involved in any manner of subject lessons from drama and music to sport. iMPACT is always seeking to provide support or involvement with other mission activities that may be running around the year across Scotland.