“The Anglican Church’s current strategy is hastening the demise of the parish church, which already struggling to survive in the context of a changed population….Those of us who are keeping our churches going, and trying to increase our congregations and buck the downward trend, are being burdened with additional work in order to solve our diocese’s financial problems, many of which are of their own making.”
Thanks to the report, we can list lessons that ought to be learnt by diocesescontemplating similar actions. A sense of place should never be underestimated. Children in schools rather than…
“The number of worshippers will only grow if the Church recovers its understanding of its central purpose.” [pdf-embedder url=”http://www.savetheparish.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Untitled-2602.pdf” title=”Untitled 2602″]
Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie writes in the Daily Telegraph this week that cash-strapped parishes must be free to focus on their core mission, not tied-up in management jargon.
The Church of England needs to train more clergy in order to reverse decline. Read original article here
On Thursday the Church of England issued an announcement that they would be giving grants worth £30 million as part of the Church of England’s plan to achieve net zero…
“Where is the accountability for such mismanagement? The Bishop of Grimsby is quoted as saying that Lincoln plans more clergy reductions, despite its being “the diocese that proved that cutting stipendiary clergy is disastrous”. Rather than embark on more restructuring of parishes, perhaps this diocese should be put into special measures, whereby (i) its bureaucracy is put into the hands of a financially competent diocese, (ii) all the ordained staff from Church House, including archdeacons, are put into parishes, and (iii) the space thereby made vacant in Church House is let out.”