A cautionary tale about hanging onto your PCC
From spirited church family to empty church building – what went wrong with the diocesan processes in Liverpool?
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A parish success story from the North West
From a church in the North West – Fight to keep your own parish and involve your local community and your congregation will grow.
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A Tale of Parish Ministry
A curate shares his parish story and concludes that a parish priest with a degree of energy, a smidgen of awareness, a willingness to roll their sleeves up and a desire to see their church grow can do great things if given time and focus on a single parish.
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The Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul Fareham – A History of Invasion
The priest-in-charge retired on 1st October 2023. The Bishop arrived the following Sunday 8th October 2023 to announce to the congregation that he had made arrangements for them to transfer to the…
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A Parish Success Story
With the help of Save The Parish, St Peter’s Church in Dowland successfully opposed amalgamation!
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A Benefice of 18 parishes failed by the Diocese of Norwich
My parish in Norwich diocese is one of the larger parishes in a benefice of 18 country parishes, with one permanent Team Rector (the current one is on extended sick…
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So what is going wrong exactly?
The thriving parish from which I have just retired is being forced towards merger, which the evidence shows will drive decline…By Revd Richard Campbell Paget I recently had my 70th…
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Easter at St Sampson’s, South Hill, Cornwall
Our deep rural parish, a small parish of 500 souls, is very much thriving. We had a wonderful Easter egg hunt and Easter trail with 2 real donkeys, which attracted…
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Continuing the story of the Six.
Having been a thorn in the side of the Diocese since the sad early retirement of our House for Duty Priest during Covid we have recently been told that the…
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Some reflections following retirement
Retiring just a few months ago, I have had the opportunity to reflect on many things. None has caused me more anxiety than the current state of the Church of…
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Episcopal plea
This is a letter which Shillingstone PCC members agreed unanimously to send to the Bishop of Salisbury. It was written in mid-November and signed by one of our Churchwardens: “Dear…
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Once happy parish brought to its knees
Let us picture a large, happy and successful rural parish, during an interregnum. An application is received from a priest looking for their first parish. An interview is arranged by…
