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WORSHIP
FAITH AND VALUES
A VISIBLE PRESENCE
THE WIDER WORLD

• Resourced for Mission and Ministry
• Clear local targets
• Support and equip leaders
• Structures fit for purpose
• Financially healthy

Who is this Journey it for?
Everyone in our parishes and communities
What next?
• Read, reflect, pray
• Have a PCC discussion
• Mission planning and budget
• Use diocesan support

A Journey Together
Sharing the transforming
Gospel of Jesus Christ in and around Gloucestershire

Tonight we focus on…
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Tonight we focus on…
• Financially healthy

Current patterns of ministry:
131 stipendiary clergy
96 self-supporting clergy
184 active readers
43 local ministry teams
Numerous retired clergy

Current patterns of ministry: youth workers, children’s ministry music groups and choirs pastoral visiting teams baptism preparation teams worship leaders and so much more…

Changing Patterns of Ministry

How do we sustain the parish as a basic unit of mission and ministry?

How do we sustain the parish as a basic unit of mission and ministry?
• Grow a Christian presence in every community
• Continue to grow the ministry of all
• Enable incumbents to provide strategic leadership and oversight
• Develop the role of ‘local ministers’ as a focus for the life of the local church

What is the role of a ‘local minister’?
Working in collaboration with the incumbent and with local teams, a local minister will be:
• A recognised focus for the life of the local church
• An enabler of the whole church’s engagement with the wider community
• Commissioned by the bishop

What qualities would a local minister have?
Local ministers will be:
• People of prayer
• Encouragers of others
• Community gatherers
• Mission-minded

Who might be a local minister?
• A self-supporting priest or deacon, or someone offering for this ministry
• A Reader, or someone offering for Reader ministry
• A retired priest
• Lay people with a vocation to be the recognised local minister in their community – maybe a church warden
• A pioneer minister

What support will be given?
• Work with benefices in identifying ministry needs and opportunities
• Training for incumbents and local ministers adapted to local needs
• Support for nurturing gifts and vocations in the life of the whole church

What are the next steps?
• PCCs commit to the Effective Ministry vision
• Review current patterns of mission and ministry
• Identify needs and the support required
• Implement and review

Effective Ministry in Every Parish
Working together to renew the mission and ministry of the local church

Over the past 50 years funding parish clergy has changed completely:
CC
Other
CC
Other

This is the experience at parish level:
1960s Paid by Church
Commissioners
£20k £40k
2010s
Around a ten fold increase!

Answer 1: “Direct cost” £43k
£20k £40k
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Stipend NIC Pension Grants etc Housing

Answer 2: “Apportioned cost” £56k
£40k
Direct cost: £43K Curates:
£10K £7K
Diocesan:
£11K
Diocesan:
£14k
£
2 k
£
3 k
£56k £73k
Based on 2013 in the Five Year Plan

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National Context
Parish Share/“Member”;
26 th £300
27
40
41
42
43
36
37
38
39
32
33
34
35
28
29
30
31
2005
30
31
32
33
26
27
28
29
34
35
36
37
38
39 th £309
40
41
42
43
2012

National Context
Parish Share/“Member”;
National Average Rate:
If replicated in Gloucester:
£6.6m
£365 p.m/a.
Rank 26 diocese in 2012 (Newcastle):
If replicated in Gloucester:
£6.4m
£355 p.m/a
Actual commitments 2012: £5.6m

National Context
Regular giving/donor;
26
27
28
29
30 31 st £6.95/week
32
37
38
39
40
33
34
35
36
41
42
43
2006
13
14
15
16
17
18 th £9.27/week
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
38
39
40
41
42
34
35
36
37
30
31
32
33
26
27
28
29
43
2010

National Context
Total Voluntary Income to PCCs
Gloucester 2006:
Gloucester 2010:
£9.1m
(PS; 57%)
£12.1m
(PS; 46%)
If Parish Share had increased the same as voluntary giving to parishes it would have been
£6.9m

From the Accounts for 2011:
Parish Share: £5.6m
Provision of Clergy: £7.1m
“Global” deficit: £1.1m

Aggregate lost posts in the budget:
2013:
2014:
“Support” Priests
6 1
8 4
2015: 10 7

If Parish Share does not increase:
2013:
2014:
“Support” Priests
6 5
8 12
2015: 10 16

Printed material:
• I want to know series
• “Thank You”
• “Our Share in the future”
• “Where is the Church”
• Annual Report
Tell us what else you need…

Discuss, pray, reflect…