Building for Mission and Ministry

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Building for Mission and Ministry

• Stockton Deanery Synod - 27th March 2006

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Roadmap to the Presentation

• How we got to where we are TO
• A review of the quality of the report DB
• A few things to challenge TO
• Issues arising from the report TO
• Questions for clarification LR
• Time for reflection TO
• Time to decide!! LR
• Next steps TO

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How did we get here?

• A two-pronged initiative
• A buildings review
• Looking at our response to Mission-Shaped Church
  and the Fresh Expressions initiative
• Became one and lost the s on buildings

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We need to balance the two
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What happened next?

• Weekend in early September
• Alternative worship event at Stockton PC
• Full-day workshop at Oakwood Centre
• Focus mainly on mission
• Submissions from the parishes
• Half-day workshop at All Saints Centre

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What happened next?

• Collation of the parish input
• Report writing delegated to the Deanery Officers
  assisted by David Brooke
• Draft report circulated
• Input received from chapter, localities, pastoral
  committee
• Comments incorporated

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A report for your approval
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The process from here

• This is a living document
• We expect to add more appendices
• We expect it to change and grow
• Keep the feedback coming
• From PCCs
• From localities
• From other informal groups

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The process from here

• This is a working document
• Parishes and localities will want to plan
• They will want to start things
• They will want to stop things
• They may want to open or close things!
• This is about permission to think differently and
  work differently

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The process from here

• This is a document for deanery action
• There are questions we need to consider
• There will be changes we need to make
• It is a document for diocesan action
• Help from specialists
• Input to policy making

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Points to affirm in the report
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The work of the baptised
Not missionOR ministry but missionAND
ministry
Not serviceOR evangelismbut serviceAND
evangelism
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Turning the church inside out
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The desire to discover
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The desire to discover
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New ways of being church
Localities are just another artificial area
Mission is no respecter of boundaries
Did you know that half of Asda is in Durham
diocese and half is in York?
Church is wherever we are
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Where do we find our identity?
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More joined-up thinking
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Concerns to share
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Crushing financial pressures
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Ill-fitting buildings
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Facing the inevitable?
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Discovering community needs
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Overwhelming change
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Ideas to challenge
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Diocesan spending sprees!
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Mission goes beyond service
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You cant do that here
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Getting them in
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Questions to face
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Deanery QuestionsWhat is the deanerys role?
?
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Deanery QuestionsPermeable Boundaries?
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Deanery QuestionsCan the strong help the weak?
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Deanery QuestionsCommunications
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Buildings/Finance QuestionsStewardship
Is the real issuestewardshipor is itspiritual
growth?
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Buildings/Finance QuestionsBuildings
What are theyreally good for?
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Buildings/Finance QuestionsMission
Where doesmission appearin our budgets?
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Ministry and Mission QuestionsMission in
Ministry
Is it time forthe SMIMDT?
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Ministry and Mission QuestionsEcumenism
Are we doingall we can towork with
ourecumenicalpartners?
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Ministry and Mission QuestionsKeeping the Vision
How do we keepthe dream going?
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Questions for clarification
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Time to reflect
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Time to decidea counted vote!
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The process from herea reminder

• This is a living document
• Keep the feedback coming
• This is a working document
• This is a document for deanery action
• It is a document for diocesan action