Priority Areas Committee

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Priority Areas Committee

• Enabling the local church in Scotlands 54
  economically poorest parishes

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Our basis ..

• a priority for the poorest and most
  marginalised is the gospel imperative facing the
  whole Church ..
• General Assembly 2001

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Our Vision .

• .... a reinvigorated and sustainable worshipping
  people and community life in all 54 priority area
  parishes .

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Our principles ..

• .priority must mean priority
• .accountability is to the local
• .partnership is the only way

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Our strategy .
Church Life
Wider Church
Community Life
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Engaging with the wider Church .
the real problem is wealth not poverty .

• Communications
• Just Church
• Poverty Alliance
• Poverty Audit
• Priority Areas Forum
• Together for a Change
• Twinning

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New models of Church life ..
. sustainable and vibrant communities of faith
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• Buildings development
• CURBS
• Community Chaplaincy
• Priority Areas Holiday
• Soul Marks
• Support Training
• Unlock Glasgow
• Urban Expression
• Worship (Holy, Wholly, Hole .. Eh?)
• Youth Work

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New models of community life .
. developing faithful capital .

• Bereavement support
• Faith in Community (Scotland)
• Faith in Dundee
• GIS System
• Global Cities
• Interfaith Storytelling Centre
• Local Voices
• Prison Throughcare
• Tearfund
• Transformation Team

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Looking to the future .

• . development of the priority areas staffing
  fund ..
• . responding to the changing political
  environment ..
• . raising the attractiveness of ministries in
  priority areas ..
• . seeking to read the signs of the times and
  then to be in tune with the Spirit of God .....

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