Our Deanery and Parish Development Advisers are here to offer you support and signposting with many of the things that churches and communities face in these changing times.
For example:
- When you are in vacancy and need to write a profile
- Working well as a multi parish benefice
- Finding ways to encourage a culture of enabling ministries and volunteering
- Building teams, collaborating well and supporting leadership
- Parish disagreements and how to move well through them
- How to be an effective rural church
- Discerning the priorities and aligning with God’s purpose for the future
- Exploring values and the marks of mission
- Think about making a difference in your community through social action
- (Almost) any issue you don’t have the answer to.
So if you have any questions, please ask us. If we don’t have the answer, we can always make sure that you are signposted in the direction of someone who does!
Who to contact
Claire Horton
Deanery and Parish Development Adviser (Bath Archdeaconry) / Magnifcat Advocate (p/t)
Rob Walrond
Deanery and Parish Development Adviser (Taunton Archdeaconry) / Rural Adviser (p/t)
Caroline Bruce
Deanery and Parish Development Adviser (Wells Archdeaconry)