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Leominster Deanery Synod LEOMINSTER DEANERY SYNOD MINUTES OF THE DEANERY SYNOD held at Brimfield Village Hall at 2.00pm Thursday 28th November 2019 Welcome Mrs Lydia Davies welcomed everyone to the meeting and Prebendary Mike Kneen led the introductory prayer. Talks CARE FOR CREATION. Preb Mike Kneen spoke of the majestic progress of creation over on Environ- millions of years, perhaps through the Big Bang and later forces of evolution. Humankind had mental long studied these matters with enthusiasm in the Abrahamic tradition. It was God’s world, Issues God’s universe, God’s creation. In Genesis we read that God brought successive levels of order and beauty to the ‘chaotic soup’ and saw after each stage that it was good. The creation was God’s, and it was good. Moreover, it was clear from several points in the Old Testament that it was given to us on trust and not to wreck for our own purposes. Later, Paul had famously spoken of the whole of creation groaning in travail and suffering as we awaited redemption. The stewardship that we had been given did not admit of our carelessness. And our carelessness started at the point where we understood but did nothing. The overwhelming scientific consensus was that human-made climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions was real, and the greatest threat to our existence that we faced. Many of the tiny minority who believed otherwise were beholden to fossil fuel interests. We should reflect on Greta Thunberg’s simple message: that we, and our politicians, should listen to what scientists are saying about climate change, and act upon it. Some people pointed out that floods, fires and snow were nothing new. However, in the last 140 years or so the five coldest years globally were 1898, 1892, 1883, 1960 and 1990. However, the five hottest had been 2006, 2007, 2011, 2014 and 2017. If we allowed such climate change to go on unchecked we would be inflicting harm on those who were already poor. We couldn’t ignore climate change, keep our standard of living, and watch others drown. We would all drown together. However, if we tackled climate change to the benefit of low-lying lands like Bangladesh, we would benefit too. As Christians, we could act. We worshipped the God of truth, so we should always be looking to see what was true. It was essential to take this out of the political arena. London, Bristol, Edinburgh and Manchester were examples of where local authorities were doing good environmental work. Private organisations such as pension providers could make the running too, in deciding where to put their money. It was quite possible to make a good return on doing good things! You should challenge what was nonsense, seek good for others, and consider how you used your wealth. You should think about what power company to use. Did you need a new heating system? Heat pumps were good, insulation even better. How would you travel? Did you need to replace your car? What would you tell your MP? What would you do with your savings, and could you save for the good? What else could you think of? ECO CHURCH. Mrs Rose Jenkins said that maybe you were a person who wanted to do something about climate change but weren’t sure how to go about it. In that case, Eco Church might be just the thing. Eco Church wasn’t a one-off activity; it was a framework for a journey you were probably already on without realising it. It was an initiative run by an organisation called A Rocha International, a charity focusing on environmental and ecological action. Mike had shown why we should be doing something, and we now came to what we should be doing. The Eco Church questionnaire would help to identify what you had already done and would give you ideas about what else you could do. Each parish would have its challenges, opportunities and different skills, and it was important to start from where you were. [You can find the questionnaire at https://ecochurch.arocha.org.uk/.] When you filled in the questionnaire, there were dials that told you how far you were getting on towards the Bronze, Silver or Gold Award. In the case of the Bronze or Silver, you got the local Vicar to sign the filled-in form, and then you sent it off. For Gold, you had to be inspected. The sections in the questionnaire were as follows: 1. Worship and Teaching (things like harvest festival, Lent course, relevant hymns); 2. Buildings (e.g. collecting rainwater, having cycle racks); 1 3. Land (e.g. having bee-friendly plants, music in the churchyard); 4. Community and Local Engagement (e.g. Fairtrade, Traidcraft, Tearfund Quiz); 5. Lifestyle (e.g. having a re-use board, recycling, having communal Christmas cards). The church would need to have a person as a focal point. Once people knew the church was on a journey, they would want to join in. It could all break down age barriers. So: go online for the Questionnaire and take things from there, one step at a time. Synod After the interval, Lydia expressed thanks to those who had kindly served the refreshments. business Attendance Present: Clergy 4, Lay 24, Guests 1; total 29. Apologies received: Clergy 2, Lay 10. Minutes of Minutes of the meeting held at St Leonard’s, Yarpole on Thursday 26th September 2019 were the previous approved. meeting Matters None raised. arising New Team Mike Kneen was delighted to announce that The Reverend Rufus Noy had been appointed to fill Vicar the vacancy for a Team Vicar. He was currently the priest in charge of Upper Torfaen, comprising Blaenavon, Capel Newydd and Pontypool, in the Diocese of Monmouth. The licensing service would take place at the Priory Church at 2.00pm on Saturday 25th January 2020. Finance Canon Rosemary Lording wanted to celebrate where we had got to in the Parish Giving Scheme. • She thanked the 12 parishes in the deanery who had signed up. • We now had 122 individuals signed up out of about 500+ who were regular givers to their parishes. • Richard Jones, the Givings Adviser, had been to the USA but would be with us again until May. He had done superb work in encouraging people to reconsider their giving. • Those who had signed up had increased their weekly giving from an average of £6.25 to £10.92 plus Gift Aid, an increase of £4.67 each, giving much-enhanced sustainability to their parishes. That was brilliant. [These figures were from Richard.] • Richard had estimated that the annual deanery income would be increased by £19k from the 122 people already referred to, with Gift Aid to be added on top. • 95% of the 122 people had signed up for annual inflationary increases. • It was important to move on, and we wanted to encourage those who were on the PGS to encourage other parishes to take that step forward. • We had seven parishes signed up who had done nothing about it. • We had 16 parishes hovering on the sidelines who had done nothing at all. • If we could now get another 130 people signed up that would take us up to about half of the regular givers). We then had the potential to increase deanery giving by about £42k or £51.5k with Gift Aid added, and so nearly an extra priest. (Richard’s figures.) • The PGS made life considerably easier for treasurers. • In conclusion, Rosemary thanked those who had transferred to the Scheme. She asked us to bear in mind that if we could get up to about 250 people on the PGS (half the regular givers), we could be well on the way to where we wanted to be. Letter to Preb Mike Kneen introduced The Reverend David Wyatt who has joined us as Curate in the Church Pyons group. David was invited to read out an excellent letter which he has written to the Times Church Times (edition of 22nd November 2019). The letter appears as an appendix to these minutes. Draft Motion The meeting considered the draft Motion (Name) moves that Leominster Deanery Synod a) deplores the suggestion that, for the diocese to become financially solvent, stipendiary clergy numbers will have to be reduced; b) feels that any such reduction would be a retrograde step since the visible presence of a priest gives spiritual support and guidance as the face of the church to those in a parish and is essential to our mission and to the growth of the local church; 2 c) proposes that, rather than reducing stipendiary clergy, the number assigned to parishes should be increased, where they would take on diocesan advisory posts thus reducing extra financial burden; d) proposes that new local vocations to the priesthood should be sought and encouraged; e) proposes that more sacrificial giving as part of a revival of Christian faith in this diocese should continue to be encouraged and that as far as possible all parishes should adopt the Parish Giving Scheme. cont Preb Mike Kneen said that a variety of concerns had prompted this item. For one thing, we felt that it was necessary to have an adequate number of clergy to give strength to our village churches. Clergy were in short supply. There was a hope that some of our interns, of whom we had had five, would return to the diocese for their curacy after training. Nevertheless, there would be a shortfall, which would require imaginative management. The cutting of stipendiary clergy to balance the budget was something that had been forced on the diocese.
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