Rural presence

Thinking aloud about being a Christian presence in every (rural) community

rural presence

thinking aloud about being a Christian presence in every (rural) community

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A place for some useful resources and creative thinking about rural mission and ministry in the Church of England’s Diocese of Chelmsford.

New Church Representation Rules

December 19, 2019

Via the Thinking Anglicans site I came across a 25/11/19 post on the completely revised Church Representation Rules which will come into effect on 1 January 2020. Hard copies are available from Church House Publishing and elsewhere – and you can see the new rules in schedule 1 of the Church Representation and Ministers Measure … More New Church Representation Rules

Research into training/development

December 2, 2019

“Thanks to “the friday mailing” from nick.shepherd@churchofengland.org I became aware of this report “Leadership and ministry, lay and ordained: Insights from rural multi-church groups” (citation Weller, P., Neary, S., Artess, J., and Sahar, A. (2019) ‘Leadership and ministry, lay and ordained: insights from rural multi-church groups’. Derby: University of Derby). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The report is based … More Research into training/development

Rural Church Buildings #2

October 17, 2019

Earlier this year in the Diocese of Chelmsford we held a conference on Rural Church Buildings. Wanting to capture the wisdom of our great crowd of speakers, we also interviewed the contributors and (thanks to Big Picture Charity Films), here is the second group of films (see earlier post for the others). We asked our … More Rural Church Buildings #2

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Some insight into how the Arthur Rank Centre's Germinate Groups programme has worked in the Diocese of Worcester.