CT Letters: The SDF and who is paying for it
Simon Smale suggests that the rump of the last SDF funding might be spent supporting parish ministry in Church’s ‘inherited’ format.
Simon Smale suggests that the rump of the last SDF funding might be spent supporting parish ministry in Church’s ‘inherited’ format.
“A CORRESPONDENT whose letter is published this week suggests that something that the Church Commissioners should do with the resources that they hold in trust is “allocate a tiny fraction of their capital gain of £550 million in 2020 to clear the £12-million deficit accumulated by parishes in 2020 owing to Covid.”
SDF has enabled many people to be “brought to faith”, a new review of the programme concludes, despite the difficulty of measuring the creation of new disciples. The programme has…