Macclesfield Team Parish

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Macclesfield Team Parish

• An Evolving Ministry

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What do we want to do?

• Move from a Team Parish to a Team Ministry
• with separate PCCs for each of the 4 churches
• Team council
• Team rector and team vicar(s)
• Establish a Local Leadership Teams (LLTs) for
  each church

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What we have done so far?

• Vision and Strategy Group late 05
• Finding a Way Forward report - May 06
• Finding our Calling report - Sept 06
• Parish Away Day - Nov 06
• Central Costs Group Spring 07
• Mechanism for dividing Parish Share agreed
• Legals Group running since Spring 07
• Visit to Rugby Team Parish May 07

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Our Present Structure

• Why do we need to change this?

PCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
Congregation
Congregation
Congregation
Congregation
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1. To clarify the role of Church Councils

• Church members treat their own local DCC as being
  the more significant forum for decision making,
  and where the power rests
• The PCC is an even more distant body than the DCC
  to ordinary church members
• It can seem that the PCC is responsible for
  everything and nothing all at the same time

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2. To Create Legal Alignment

• Effective debate and decision making happens in
  the DCCs
• DCCs are responsible locally in practice for
  worship, mission, local finance and buildings
• However, the PCC is legally responsible for
  everything in the Team Parish
• The PCC has the responsibility for making
  decisions that it does not always know enough
  about, or even care enough about

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3. To Reduce Bureaucracy

• Team Parishes are known to be meeting intensive
• DCCs and PCC repeat a lot of communication
  reporting (incl. Stand. Comms.)
• PCC ends up with rubber stamping role
• Present hierarchical structure is more geared to
  maintenance than being mission-shaped

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4. To Increase Sense of Ownership

• New structure follows contemporary trends of
  flattening management structures
• Subsidiarity - giving control over issues,
  decisions, actions at appropriate local level
• There is no reason to keep all the power at the
  top in the PCC
• When people feel that they have control over what
  they do, it increases their sense of ownership
  and therefore participation

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5. To Clarify Role of the Team Rector

• Team Rector is chair of a DCC and also of the
  PCC, but he must be impartial across the churches
• There are occasions when he has a vested interest
  in the affairs of St Michaels
• The new structure helps to address this

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6. To become a better team

• Cross Team working is becoming established at
  congregational grassroots level
• Different opportunities, needs and skills are
  becoming apparent in different churches
• We have a creative impetus to work as a team, but
  the present structure does not help us

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What we are proposing

• Moving to a Team Ministry but with 4 separate
  PCCs
• Establishing a Team Council
• Having a team rector and team vicar(s)
• Establishing a Local Leadership Team (LLT) for
  each church
• What does this mean in more detail?

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Moving to a team ministry

• The current arrangements

PCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
DCC
Congregation
Congregation
Congregation
Congregation
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Moving to a team ministry

• Proposed new team arrangements

Congregation
Congregation
Congregation
Congregation
PCC
PCC
PCC
PCC
Team Council
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Proposed new arrangements

• For each individual church within team

Congregation
LLT
Church Wardens
Leadership shared
Clergy
Treasurer
PCC
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Establishing a Team Council

• Team Ministry works by four PCCs agreeing to
  delegate certain functions to a central body
  (Team Council)
• Team Council will oversee Team-wide functions
• Communication incl magazine website
• Team Councils finances
• Parish Share payment
• Stewardship Scheme
• Central Team staff and administration of paid
  employees of the PCCs
• Child protection policy
• Allocation of clergy resource

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Team Clergy

• Each church will have one member of the clergy
  with special responsibility for it, to ensure
  continuity of pastoral care, etc.
• Clergy (incl. curates) to have a team-wide role
  and to be a team-wide resource
• Playing to individual strengths of clergy
• Increased collaboration between clergy
• Clergy chapter to organise this

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Local Leadership Teams

• Small group to work with clergy to oversee and
  direct ministry and mission
• Develop and implement values, direction and
  strategy approved by PCC
• By sharing leadership burden, enables more
  effective use of clergy
• Reports to PCC with appropriate frequency
• PCC can raise matters for LLT

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Who is on the LLT?

• Small number but not fixed
• Optional whether it includes church wardens or
  treasurer
• Clergy
• Candidates to be put forward to PCC for approval
• Candidates identified by small nominations
  committee of clergy two others nominated by
  clergy

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How the LLT works

• Elects its own chair
• Meets as often as it needs to
• Appointments committee reviews its effectiveness
  and composition each year
• Membership ratified each year by PCC
• Written constitution for LLT to be put to APCM in
  2009

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Where we have got to

• LLTs we have started to set some of them up, to
  be formalised in 2009
• Archidiaconal Pastoral Committee (September 08)
  fully supportive
• Consultation process will happen soon
• We are planning for the new Team Ministry to be
  in place for mid 2009

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• The PCC has given approval in principle, prior to
  formal consultation

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Macclesfield Team Parish

• An Evolving Ministry