Priests need to be replaced as soon as they leave the parish and the Church should spend more money training priests. Approximately 20% of priests are due to retire in the next 5 years.
A recent report suggests that church parishes are declining at their fastest rate on record. Check out what is happening in your diocese in this article. Read original article here
Emma Thompson writes in The Times about how The Church of England must rebalance their spending to pay priests a better wage.
Read the original article here THE number of regular givers in the Church of England has fallen since 2013 by 30 percent — 172,000 — statistics published by Church House,…
In total, 1686 responses were received with most — 1495 — sent by individuals. Of
these, the vast majority were lay people, generally regular churchgoers, PCC
members, churchwardens, and volunteers. Most raised “signi#cant concerns”,
“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″]
“Some of Welby’s critics feel the church has slapped a “do not resuscitate” order on ancient parish churches…choosing to direct funds instead towards setting up more modern types of congregation…”