Innovative and unusual pastoral arrangements

1. Innovative and unusual pastoral arrangements Some scenarios

2. City Deanery Parish Church + Chapel of Ease ± Cathedral † Licensed Place of Worship ¤Methodist church x

3. All we need is a room somewhere! I’m the curate in Benefice 6. My incumbent lets me run an exciting experimental congregation which attracts new worshippers from all across the City. We need more space and have now found a sports hall to hire but it’s not in my parish. What do we do now?

4. Church Plant - Extra Parochial Place • EPP includes rented building • Experimental worship • Eclectic congregation • Shared minister with Benefice 6 • Flourishing united benefice • Parish 6b revitalised by a now mature plant from Parish 6a Parish Church + Extra Parochial Place

5. Church Plant - EPP • Worship-centred mission project • Location not important –determined by suitable meeting space • Minimal involvement in synodical structures • No formal link with Benefice 6 except via shared minister • Pastoral Scheme to create EPP • Minister licensed by Bishop

6. Worship where we work We all work in the City Centre. We meet for worship and discussion at lunchtime and after work. We also get involved in social action. We’re all involved in our home parishes as well. We use a church in the City Centre parish for our worship and as a base for our outreach. It would close if we didn’t use it. The local incumbent is happy for us to carry on but says his parish doesn’t want the building and wants no responsibility for looking after it.

7. Church Plant - EPP within Detached Part of Parish • “Surplus” City Centre Church • Working day congregation + • Nucleus of membership from Benefice 6 • Residual liability for building rests with Parish 6a. Parish church + Chapel of ease ± EPP Detached part

8. Church Plant – EPP within Detached Part of Parish • Location/action centred mission project • Location is important – related to place of work • Minimal involvement in synodical structures – members also have home parishes • Utilises otherwise redundant church – “donut” for residual maintenance liability • Pastoral Scheme to create EPP and detached part of parish

9. The Heineken Effect We can help. Our parish can send people to run a plant and bring your parish back to life We could use the old factory canteen. But the vicar there doesn’t want us. Our parish life died when the factory closed. The vicar does nothing. No-one wants to go to the church. It’s rundown, depressing and out of touch

10. Church Plant – Detached Part of Parish • Struggling parish – ineffective incumbent • Planted “missionary” congregation • Former factory building • Detached part of Parish 6a Parish church + Detached part

11. Church Plant – detached part of parish • Plant to revitalise struggling parish • Meets in secular building (former factory) • Could be established against wishes of incumbent of Benefice 7 • Part of Parish 6a for financial and synodical purposes • Pastoral Order to create and transfer detached part of parish (Scheme not needed as no church involved)

12. A problem shared Our Methodist church is in danger of closing. Few of us live nearby now and the area is full of student bed-sits and nightclubs. We thought our local Anglican parish might want to share the building but it’s in the wrong location for them and they can’t afford a second building, This is the opportunity we are looking for. We can afford to share this church with a planted congregation and it’s the ideal venue for our “clubbers’ church” outreach project.

13. Detached Parish – Shared Church • Methodist church threatened with closure • Anglican Parish 2 doesn’t wish to share building • Benefice 6 sees this as a mission opportunity ¤ • Separate Parish (6c) – footprint of building - detached part of Benefice 6 • Sharing agreement for building • Plant congregation –youth oriented “clubbers’ church” Parish church + Methodist church x Detached parish  Licensed Place of Worship ¤

14. Church Plant – Detached Parish • Plant to take advantage of mission opportunity • Not contentious for Parish 2 (lack resources themselves) • Shared building with multiple congregations • Separate parish financially self-sufficient and integrated into synodical structures • Eclectic congregation • Pastoral Scheme to create new parish • Separate sharing agreement for Methodist/Anglican church building

15. Churches together in England? I’m the Rector of Benefice 2. I’m enthusiastic about ecumenism. Part of my Parish around the shared Anglican/ Methodist church houses students of all denominations We already share our building so an ecumenical link is a logical next step. We are an Anglo-Catholic Benefice (Benefice 1) and one of our two parishes also includes a Roman Catholic church with which we have a good relationship

16. Local Ecumenical Project ¤

17. Local Ecumenical Project • LEP may cover part of a benefice or parish • LEP established under Canon B44 and Church of England (Ecumenical Relations) Measure

18. Various Arrangements for Church Plants + ¤

19. Sermons in Stone? We can’t afford this building. It was always too big. It’s a “millstone” which distracts us from mission and pastoral care. We at the Cathedral are a wealthy congregation. We would like to offer financial and ministerial support to a less well off parish. We love our building. It’s important to our faith and worship but we know we can’t afford to maintain it.

20. Detached Part – Financial Support for Church • Parish church cathedral • Wealthy eclectic congregation • Struggling parish • Dynamic incumbent • “Millstone” building • Resolutions A and B + • Detached part of Parish 9 • Own DCC • Group ministry Parish church + Cathedral † Licensed PoW ¤ Detached part of parish

21. Financial support for church – detached part of parish • Financial responsibility for building moves to Cathedral parish • DCC for other matters • Group ministry enables incumbent of Benefice 3 to take services • Synodical representation now via Cathedral parish • Congregation may have dual electoral roll membership • Pastoral Scheme to transfer part of parish and create Group Ministry

22. Where do we go from here? We know our benefice is too small to have its own priest but we are an Anglo-catholic ABC parish and none of the next door benefices want a link with us. Where do we go from here? Over here! We are on the other side of the deanery but are happy to have a link with a non-adjoining benefice.

23. Plurality of non-adjoining benefices • Plurality with liberal Anglo-Catholic benefice • Female curate • One parish in LEP • Forward in Faith parish • Too small for own priest • Resolutions A,B and C Parish church + Licensed Place of Worship ¤

24. Plurality of non-adjoining benefices • Plurality of non-adjoining benefices for churchmanship reasons • Could be a united benefice with detached parishes but for women priests issue • Might also be done to match struggling benefice with supportive thriving benefice • Pastoral Order to establish plurality

25. We want to be alone! But my dear Archdeacon my parish is flourishing and keeps me fully occupied. It’s fine as it is and I don’t want to get involved in these fancy arrangements. That’s fine my boy. Nothing wrong with the traditional parish where it’s working well

26. The Traditional Parish

27. City Deanery + ¤ +

28. Rural Deanery Parish  Benefice - coloured

29. Rural Deanery • Benefice 1 – Ineffective incumbent • Benefice 2 – Traditionalist benefice, eclectic congregation, Resolutions A and B • Benefice 3 - Rural/suburban benefice, embryo network church • Benefice 4 – Thriving Market Town benefice, large underused church and hall, female incumbent • Benefice 5 – Suburban benefice, new estate encroaching into Benefice 6 • Benefice 6 - Multi parish rural benefice. Incumbent focused on rural ministry

30. Deanery Team cd 7

31. Deanery Team • team of Team Rector , 5 Team Vicars and 2 assistants • permeable boundaries (mix of functional and territorial responsibilities) • can include Resolution A parishes and still have female team members • easier to establish Conventional District (as only one incumbent) • use resources over a wider area • Pastoral Scheme to unite benefices and create single-benefice team ministry and extra network parish (Parish 7) • Bishop’s licence to define responsibilities • Bishop creates Conventional District

32. Deanery Team • Incumbent 1 - TV. Territorial responsibility for Parishes 1a, 1b, 3a and 3b, helped by assistant (OLM/NSM) • Incumbent 2 – TV. Territorial responsibility for Parishes 2a, 2b and 2c but also services in Parish 4 • Incumbent 3 – TV. Territorial responsibility for new Parish 7, functional responsibility for mission • Incumbent 4 – TR. General responsibility except for Parishes 2a, 2b and 2c • Incumbent 5 –TV. Territorial responsibility for Parishes 4 and 5 • Incumbent 6 – TV.Territorial responsibility for Parishes 6a,6b and 6c, functional responsibility for rural ministry. Assistant has responsibility for Conventional District.

33. Team and Group 7

34. Team and Group • A team for all six benefices requires rescinding of Resolution B (no female TR or TV) by Parishes 2a, 2b and 2c • A team as part of a Group with Benefice 2 would be possible without rescinding Resolution B • Pastoral Scheme to unite benefices and create team ministry, group ministry and network parish • Bishop’s licence to define team members’ responsibilities • Bishop creates Conventional District (only one incumbent’s consent now required)

35. Minster model team 7

36. Minster model team • Six parish team (Parishes 1a, 2b, 4, 6b, 6c and 7) “Patchwork” effect of non-adjacent parishes • Includes network church of detached parts of Parish 7 • Pastoral Scheme to create new benefice and network parish and establish team ministry (plus other reorganisation). • Bishop’s licence to define responsibilities