With our commitments to those we serve we also need a commitment to ourselves – to what keeps us growing as human beings, as disciples and as ministers.  This sessionContinue reading

Asset Based Community Development encourages good practice for churches engaging with local communities.  The ABCD approach resonates with the Christian understanding of ‘mission dei’ – finding out what God is doing and joiningContinue reading

Looking at the specific role of the incumbent in safeguarding: where the resposibilities lie, how to develop the safeguarding work of the parishes and oversight of those involved, and howContinue reading

This session is designed to help clergy navigate the broad and potentially complex range of issues affecting buildings and churchyards.  Puttin buildings within their wider missional context and not simplyContinue reading

Eco Church is a tool to enable us to engage well with environmental concerns, working under the five headings of worship and teaching; buildings; land, community and global; and lifestyle. Continue reading

Exploring the ways that the incumbent can engage with children, staff and pupils in their schools and to help us understand the important aspects of children’s spirituality, as well asContinue reading

This session covers some of the main areas where legal issues impact on day to day ministry.  This includes: Marriage – banns, qualifying connections, common and special licenses and marriageContinue reading

Supervision is the art of helping someone develop in their ministry or role.  At its heart it is offering someone thinking space so they can think through what they areContinue reading

Being an incumbent necessarily involves handling disagreement and conflict.  This session helps us to identify the imortance of, and how to enable, different voices to be heard.  Thus moving fromContinue reading

Archdeacons Hilary and Phil help us understand the legal aspects of the PCC, the responsibiliti8es of the incumbent, and consider how to chair good and fruitful PCC meetings. Tutor:  ArchdeaconContinue reading

To eplore the particular role that the incumbent has in the financial management of the parish.  This includes the basics of reading balance sheets and annual accounts, how to workContinue reading

Part of every minister’s role is to enable the ministry of all God’s people.  It is often easier to talk about collaborative ministry than to put it into practice.  InContinue reading

Forming habits of wellbeing will help you flourish in the challenges of incumbency.  Heather McCartney, a psychotherapist, is with people in ministry in a number of dioceses, offering psychotherapy, pastoralContinue reading

To explore the distinctive role of the incumbent and its relationship to our mission context and to thinking about the thological and practical implications of holding authority and considering howContinue reading