Resources
Many resources currently found on the Church Commissioners’ Pastoral and Redundant
Churches Department website are being amended and republished over the coming
months. Other new resources will be added. Please keep an eye on these websites for
more information.
Websites
Church Commissioners’ Pastoral and Closed Churches Department –
http://www.ccpastoral.org
Fresh Expressions –
http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk
Start the Week: Resourcing a church shaped for mission –
http://starttheweek.typepad.com/stw
Reports and Books
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Presidential Address: General Synod November 2005
– Archbishop of Canterbury (2005)
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/sermons_speeches/2005/051116a.htm
Called to Live and Proclaim the Good News: The Official Report of the Lambeth
Conference 1998 – Church of England (Church of England 1998)
http://www.lambethconference.org/resolutions/1998/1998-2-6.cfm
Common Worship – Church of England (Church House Publishing: London, 2000) ISBN
0715120002
Constitution and Procedure of the Mission and Pastoral Committee (Schedule 3 of
the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007) – Church of England (Church
of England: London, 2007) http://www.opsi.gov.uk/uk-churchmeasures/2007/pdf/ukcm_20070001_en.pdf
Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007 – Church of England (Church of
England: London, 2007) http://www.opsi.gov.uk/uk-churchmeasures/2007/pdf/ukcm_20070001_en.pdf
Ecumenical Co-operation in Mission Initiatives: Guidelines for Bishops – Local Unity
Panel for the Council for Christian Unity (Council for Christian Unity, 2007)
Encouraging Lay Pioneer Ministry: Guidelines for the development of lay ministry in
fresh expressions of Church - Ministry Division and Mission and Public Affairs
Division of The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England with Fresh
Expressions (Church of England: London, 2007)
http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/temp/LPM_GuidelinesspFINALhs1hs.doc
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The Future of the Parish System: Shaping the Church of England for the 21st
Century – Edited by Steven Croft (Church House Publishing: London, 2006) ISBN
0715140345
Hope for the Church: Contemporary Strategies for Growth – Bob Jackson (Church
House Publishing: London, 2002) ISBN 0715155512
House of Bishops Code of Practice: Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission Measure 2007
Part V: Mission Initiatives – Approved by General Synod February 2008 (Church
of England: London, 2008) http://www.churchofengland.org/clergy-officeholders/pastoralandclosedchurches/commonresources/dpmm.aspx
House of Bishops Ordained Pioneer Ministry Guidelines – Ministry Division and
Mission and Public Affairs Division of The Archbishops’ Council of the Church of
England with Fresh Expressions (Church of England: London, 2006)
http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/temp/OrdainedspPioneerspMinistersspGuidelin
essp-spFinal.doc
Innovative and unusual pastoral arrangements: Some scenarios – Church
Commissioners (Church of England, 2007)
http://www.churchofengland.org/clergy-officeholders/pastoralandclosedchurches/pastoral/mission/missionscenarios.aspx
A Measure for Measures: In Mission and Ministry – Report of the Review of the
Dioceses, Pastoral and related Measures (GS 1528) – The Archbishops’ Council
(Church House Publishing: London, 2004) ISBN 0715140299
Mission-Shaped Church: Church Planting and Fresh Expressions of
Church in a Changing Context (GS 1523) – Rowan Williams (Church House
Publishing: London, 2004) ISBN 0715140132
Mission-Shaped Parish: Traditional Church in a Changing World – Paul Bayes & Tim
Sledge (Church House Publishing: London, 2006) ISBN 0715140833
Mission-Shaped Spirituality: The Transforming Power of Mission - Susan Hope
(Church House Publishing: London, 2006) ISBN 0715140809
Mission-Shaped Rural: Growing Churches in the Countryside – Sally Gaze (Church
House Publishing, 2006) ISBN 0715140841
Mission-Shaped Children: Moving Towards a Child-Centred Church – Margaret
Withers (Church House Publishing: London, 2006) ISBN 0715140817
Mission-Shaped Youth: Rethinking Young People and the Church – Tim Sudworth,
Graham Cray & Chris Russell (Church House Publishing: London, 2007) ISBN
0715140825
Pastoral Measure 1983 – HMSO (Church of England: London, 1983)
http://www.churchofengland.org/clergy-officeholders/pastoralandclosedchurches/commonresources/pastoralmeasure.aspx
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Pastoral Measure 1983 Code of Practice 4th Edition – HMSO (Church of England:
London, 2006) http://www.churchofengland.org/clergy-officeholders/pastoralandclosedchurches/commonresources/cop.aspx
ALSO
Pastoral Measure 1983 Code of Practice 5th Edition – to be released on the Church
Commissioners Pastoral and Redundant Churches websites (see below) by June
2008 including all the amendments contained in the Dioceses, Pastoral and Mission
Measure 2007.
The Road to Growth: Towards a Thriving Church – Bob Jackson (Church House
Publishing: London, 2005) ISBN 0715140736
Booklets
Bishops’ Mission Order: a beginner’s guide – Paul Bayes and Steven Croft - Fresh
Expressions (Church House Publishing: London, 2008) ISBN 0715141694
Listening for mission: mission audit for fresh expressions – Steven Croft, Freddy
Hedley, Bob Hopkins - Fresh Expressions (Church House Publishing: London,
2006) ISBN 0715140994
Moving on in a mission-shaped church – Steven Croft - Fresh Expressions (Church
House Publishing: London, 2005) ISBN 0715140787
Starting a fresh expression – Steve Croft - Fresh Expressions (Church House
Publishing: London 2006) ISBN 0715140965
DVDs
Expressions: the DVD – 1: Stories of church for a changing culture – Norman Ivison
(Church House Publishing: London, 2006) ISBN 0715140956
Expressions: the DVD – 2: Changing Church in Every Place – Norman Ivison (Church
House Publishing: London) ISBN 0715141281
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