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Rev Canon Prof Leslie Francis
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Rev Canon Prof Leslie Francis
The contemporary rural church its ministry and
mission
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The Centre for Studies in Rural Ministry
  • Arthur Rank Centre
  • St Deiniols Library, Hawarden
  • University of Wales, Bangor

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Four themes
  • Difference
  • Clergy work-related health
  • Reflective practitioner
  • Empirical theology

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Difference
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Difference in context
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Visual difference
  • Open space
  • Scattered dwellings

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Economic difference
  • Rich and poor
  • Cost of living

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Educational difference
  • Closed schools
  • Long days

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Health care differences
  • Accessibility
  • Choice

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Social difference
  • Old and new
  • Known and unknown

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Different tensions
  • Shopfloor or playground
  • Infra-structure or decay

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Difference in ministry
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Sunday experience
  • Small congregations
  • Multiple churches

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Sunday worship
  • Music
  • Convention

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Sunday challenges
  • Children
  • Newcomers

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Weekday activities
  • Distance
  • Reticence

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Opportunities galore
  • The open door
  • The ongoing activities

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Opportunities galore
  • Ministry to whole community
  • A different form of belonging

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Clergy work-related health
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Three issues
  • Conceptualisation
  • Assessment
  • Explanation

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Conceptualisation
  • Professional burnout
  • Balanced affect
  • Emotional exhaustion
  • Depersonalisation
  • Personal accomplishment

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Assessment
  • Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)
  • Francis Burnout Inventory (FBI)

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Explanation
  • Contextual variables
  • Internal factors

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Anglican clergy
  • With Douglas W Turton
  • Sample of 1,278
  • Building Bridges, 2004

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Emotional exhaustion
  • 39 feeling used up at the end of the day
  • 16 feeling burned out from parish ministry

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Depersonalisation
  • 31 were less patient with parishioners than they
    used to be
  • 23 found it difficult to listen to what
    parishioners were saying to them

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Personal accomplishment
  • 91 gained a lot of personal satisfaction from
    working with people
  • 73 felt exhilarated after working with people

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Catholic priests
  • With Stephen H Louden
  • A sample of 1,468
  • RRR, 46, 5-19, 2004

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Emotional exhaustion
  • 36 feel used up at the end of the day
  • 16 feel fatigued when they get up

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Depersonalisation
  • 27 less patient with parishioners
  • 26 find it difficult to listen

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Personal accomplishment
  • 90 gain personal satisfaction
  • 75 have accomplished many worthwhile things

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Key finding
  • Personality
  • Context

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The rural dimension
  • Rutledge and Francis
  • 1,071 Anglican clergymen
  • RSSSR, 11, 173-191, 2000

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The rural findings
  • Same emotional exhaustion
  • Same depersonalisation
  • Lower personal accomplishment

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Reflective practitioner
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Wellbeing important for
  • The minister
  • The ministers family
  • Ministry
  • Mission

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Theories
  • Prayer and spiritual life
  • Cats and dogs
  • Reflective practice

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Hans van der Ven
  • Education for Reflective Ministry
  • Louvain, Peeters Press
  • 1998

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Assumption 1
  • Ministry is a complex profession becoming ever
    more complex and dynamic

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Complexity
  • Liturgy, preaching, hermeneutics
  • Catechesis, education
  • Church development

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Complexity society focus
  • Community development
  • Social concerns
  • Mission and out-reach

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Complexity individual focus
  • Pastoral counselling
  • Spiritual direction
  • Psychological guidance

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Assumption 2
  • The minister requires a wide range of
    professional skills and qualities

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Pastoral sciences
  • Bible
  • Prayer
  • Theology

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Sociology
  • Group dynamics
  • Social contextual factor
  • Management skills

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Psychology
  • Personality
  • Development
  • Psychopathology

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Assumption 3
  • The minister is increasingly forced to rely on
    his or her own initiative, own judgement and own
    self-guidance

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Vulnerability
  • Awesome responsibility
  • Unresolvable self-doubt
  • Intolerable burden

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Biblical principles
  • Mark, the gospel of ministry and mission

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Mark 67-13
  • The twelve go in pairs
  • Preach repentance
  • Cast out demons

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Mark 630-44
  • Disciples report to Jesus
  • Come to a lonely place
  • Rest quietly

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Ways of reflective practice 1
  • Cell group
  • Go away regularly
  • Eat, drink, disciplined talk

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Ways of reflective practice 2
  • Peer review
  • Trained reviewers (lay and ordained)
  • Proforma and confidentiality

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Ways of reflective practice 3
  • Supervisor
  • Not spiritual direction
  • Not line manager

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Empirical evidence
  • Francis and Turton
  • Hermeneutics and Empirical Research in Practical
    Theology
  • Leiden, Brill, 2004, pp 245-265

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Empirical theology
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Centre for Studies in Rural Ministry
  • We take the view that the tools of the social
    sciences are a proper part of the theologians
    tool-kit, including both theories and methods

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Social sciences methods
  • Participant observation
  • Interviews
  • Questionnaires

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Biblical models
  • Mark 43-9 anthropologist
  • Luke 147-11 sociologist
  • Luke 1038-42 psychologist

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Seminar method
  • Listen to the problem
  • Examine the theology
  • Look for the evidence

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Example 1
  • Lewis Burton
  • on
  • Preaching during the Foot and Mouth epidemic

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Example 2
  • Alex Brown
  • on
  • Use of the prayer tree in a rural church

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Example 3
  • Mike Keulemans
  • on
  • Visitors to a pilgrimage site

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Example 4
  • Becky Fisher
  • on
  • Using Godly play in rural churches

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Example 5
  • Sue Pegg
  • on
  • Local festivals on church life

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Example 6
  • Simon Brignall
  • on
  • Spirituality in the rural primary school

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Example 7
  • Eoin Buchanan
  • on
  • Expectations in large rural teams

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Example 8
  • Keith Ineson
  • on
  • Church life and social capital

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Example 9
  • Marion Penfold
  • on
  • Understanding of Remembrance Sunday

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Example 10
  • David Burkhill Howarth
  • on
  • Harvest festivals

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