Have your say on digital in our Church - and help your congregation do the same

We're three months into the Digital Transformation Programme, and so far the listening has been mostly with District Chairs, superintendents, circuit administrators other roles. That's been hugely valuable - but there are voices we still haven't heard, and they're exactly the voices that ought to be shaping this work.

So we'd like every local church to help us widen the conversation.

We've opened a short survey for anyone - ministers, stewards, regular worshippers, volunteers, family members of someone in the church. No digital background required. Anonymous if people would like. Three to five minutes. Welsh-language version available.

We will read everything that comes in. At the end of every month we'll publish a short "Here's what we heard" post on the programme page that names how many responses came in, the themes that emerged, and what we've done or forwarded in response.

How your church can help

To make this as easy as possible, we've put together two things you can use straight away:

• A notice sheet insert - a single page you can drop into a service sheet, weekly bulletin or pew sheet. Available as PDF and JPG, so whatever your church uses, it should fit.
• A church slide - for churches with a screen at the front, a ready-made slide you can put up before or after a service. Available as PowerPoint and PDF.

We've also produced a short information note to go alongside the notice sheet.

Both point people at the same short address - methodist.org.uk/DTP-HaveYourSay - with a QR code for anyone who'd rather scan than type.

Why this matters

Methodist churches run on the goodwill of volunteers and hard work of ministers, and the systems we ask them to use are part of their experience of being part of the Church. If we get those systems wrong, we make it quietly harder for people to keep going. If we get them right, we free people up - less time on the parts of the job that drain the joy out of it, more time for the things they came into ministry, or volunteering, or church life to do.

The programme exists to do that work. But it can only do it well if it's shaped by the people it's meant to serve.

So - if you can, share the insert. Put up the slide. Mention it from the front. Even one extra voice from your church is a help.

Especially a voice from someone who would not otherwise have been asked.