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Parish Priest & Diocesan Discipleship Development Advisor Bolingbroke deanery Parish Priest & Diocesan Discipleship Development Advisor (2X ½ Time) Bolingbroke Deanery 1 Parish Priest & Discipleship Development Advisor The Church in the rural parts of Lincolnshire is being led by God and His people to work in a very different way from the expected model of Church. The Church of England seems to have one priest and one church hard wired into its psyche however unusual that situation has now become. In fact, the idea of a Group of Parishes was very successfully invented and developed in our Deanery. The South Ormsby Group has for 60 years been a powerful expression of God’s love to people within and beyond its boundaries. However, the basic concept that we can continue to keep the parish system alive by continually making larger and larger groups to create a Group that fits the available resources and supply of incumbents is evidently destined to failure. Thirty Churches to one incumbent is unworkable and unsellable. Nor will the logic that we make the shape fit our “ideal” by closing down Churches and concentrating on a few centres to pretend that all is well with the “Parish” and in fact all we are doing is becoming just another gathered congregation. Bolingbroke Deanery believes that God is calling us to use the tremendous resource we have been given, people and plant, in a way we don’t yet fully understand yet seems to be based on the renewal/revival of small groups of Christians living and praying within their own communities and groups. We are looking for a priest who will help us all to take this vision forward and co- ordinated the many different initiatives that will result if we continually put ourselves in God’s way. The idea is to free the individual as much as possible to be creative, receptive and innovative in the context of an area that is ripe for fresh growth. There is nothing new under the sun but change is part of the living process and we need to find expressions of the Gospel that are appropriate for our context. We don’t want to restrict the field to any particular tradition or type but we need a person who will delight in all of our life together and bring out the rich gifts that are so often not allowed to grow. The task is not to do it for us but to enable us all to become what we truly are. To work collegially both in the Stickney Group and across the whole area as part of the Diocesan Discipleship Development Team. The Glory of God is a human being fully alive and our shared mission is to celebrate and assist life where ever we find it. 2 Lord, let us cultivate working together, as one, with our community. Let us work together united in one God, who is the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. To accomplish great things, we only need You, Jesus Christ. Amen (prayer from Stickney Parish USA) Snipedales Country Park The Diocese of Lincoln The context in which we minister “Outsiders had strange views about the shire and its inhabitants, which opinions were not infrequently based upon profound ignorance.” For many, Lincolnshire remains an unexplored territory somewhere in the north or the south, or the midlands or the east, according to perspective. In truth it is a huge area (2,673 square miles) which is impossible to pigeon- hole with any accuracy. The terrain runs from fenland to wolds, from hamlets to industrialised conurbations and from coast to the rolling countryside of the shires. 3 What follows cannot encapsulate the diversity that is Lincolnshire but is intended as a starting point: Lincoln is the largest diocese of the Church of England by area. The south eastern area is mainly fen and has many links with East Anglia. The south and south west are increasingly part of London’s commuter belt and often look to local centres outside the Diocese such as Peterborough, Nottingham, Doncaster and Hull, for commerce or culture. The centre is essentially part of the East Midlands, although the east coast, being more holiday resort orientated, is quite different. The Wolds are distinctively rural; but Gainsborough and Scunthorpe, with some significant deprivation, correspond in many ways to former mining towns of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire. Much of the northern area, which contains a mix of urban and rural, is linked by economic and transport infrastructure to the North of England. The Diocese is largely either urban or rural, with comparatively little suburbia, although parts of the south west of the Diocese are now firmly within the London commuter belt. The Diocese contains areas of considerable post-industrial deprivation, the richest agricultural land in the UK and pockets of modern industry and commerce. The many small market towns of Lincolnshire often serve as the focus for significant areas of countryside which surround them. Population The population of the Diocese is 924,000. The County of Lincolnshire is the fourth most sparsely populated in England which reflects the substantial areas of agricultural land. However, the majority of people in the Diocese live in urban areas; Grimsby and Cleethorpes, 130,000; Scunthorpe, 88,000; and the City of Lincoln, 85,000. 4 The population is slightly older than the UK average, with an associated burden on local authorities and churches alike. The establishment of two top flight Universities in Lincoln has, over the past few years, substantially changed the demography of the city and brought with it a breadth of education and employment. Subject to the usual regional variations, the overall picture is one of low unemployment, but also of lower than average wages and considerable job insecurity. Cultural Diversity Ethnic minorities comprise only 2% of the population, mostly scattered in very small clusters. The largest single BME community in the Diocese is of 2,000 people of Asian ethnicity in Scunthorpe. The majority have English as a second language. Seasonally labour-intensive agricultural and tourist industries rely on migrant, mainly European, labour but there are also increasing numbers of permanent or semi-permanent European immigrants. Artistic Culture and Diversity Lincoln, largely through the Cathedral, has a strong musical tradition and is on the tour circuit for a number of nationally recognised companies including the Halle Orchestra, English Touring Opera and The 16. 5 BOLINGBROKE DEANERY MISSION A United Deanery to be worked in Parish Clusters Whole Deanery a United Benefice The Bolingbroke Deanery Plan is growing towards all the parishes of the Deanery becoming part of One United Benefice. This legal entity will make Bolingbroke Deanery into one ecclesiastical unit but Each Parish will remain a distinct area with its own PCC. (At Present to work with two United Benifices, Bolingbroke Team & South Ormsby). Working as a Team Ministry Ten years ago each of the Deaneries 5 Groups had its own incumbent (Vicar, Rector, Priest in Charge) but this is no longer practicable or even desirable. As a team the clergy and lay ministers will work together to serve the whole area. Parish Clusters We value the relationship between a Parish and its Parson and working initially with the 5 existing groups a person is to be chosen as designated Parish Minister for each cluster of Parishes. That person can be ordained or lay, stipended or not, chosen by the PCC’s to be part of the deanery ministry team under the guidance of the ordinary (Rector/RD). In our case the team initially will consist of: 3 Full Time Clergy & 1 Half Time Team Administrator Rector based in Spilsby Half Time Parish Priest & Half Time Deanery Facilitator (RD) Vicar based in North of Deanery (South Ormsby) Half Time Parish Priest & Half Time Deanery Spirituality Co- ordinator Vicar based in South of Deanery (Stickney) Half time Parish Priest & Half time Deanery Development Co- ordinator Team Administrator (Half Time) in Deanery Office in Spilsby Half Time 6 (1 “House for Duty Priest Type Posts” if funding can be found through a new Diocesan Initiative) Because we are a sparsely populated area and have a large number of Churches it is extremely difficult to have an adequate “parson presence” without the development of the Deanery Plan to 3 full time posts. The Deanery Synod has committed itself to maintain the present level of giving in order to provide 3 full time posts plus a half time Administrator. The decision was made because of several factors: Volunteer & Lay Ministries need time to develop No slack (health problems have high impact) Recruitment High value people place on Full time Ministers Proven ability to finance at the level required Continuity of Leadership We are very aware of the challenges that recruitment and retainment are presenting in our rural part of the Diocese. We have seen neighbouring Deaneries struggling to attract suitable priests to several significant vacancies and have seen very able priests moving on much sooner than one would expect. To that end we believe that our method/model of working is attractive and workable. Attractive in the sense of being part of a group of people excited by a vision of revitalising the Rural Church in God’s Mission and workable in the sense of a clear role description, a defined area to work and committed collegial working. It has also become clear that people are committed to support people in full time ministry and have a deep sense of satisfaction that over the past years they have committed more per head of population than most/all other parts of the Diocese. As the payment of share over the last years has shown we have provided more than the amount required to fund the new plan and the projected budget shows that it is in our capabilities to do so into the foreseeable future.
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