Elizabeth Marshall is a long standing member of the NDN Steering Group taking an active role in organising the national conferences; co-ordinating and liasing with speakers. 
Elizabeth playing an active part in the deanery – Tower Hamlets – in the Diocese of London.
Booking Opens for Diocesan Lay Chairs 2024 Residential ConfenenceThe DLC 2024 Residential Conference (for Diocesan Lay Chairs) at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine will start with coffee at 11:00 on Saturday 2nd March with the first session begining at 11:30 and finish with lunch on Sunday 3rd March.
Book here: DLC 2024 Residential Conference
For those wishing to travel and arrive on Friday and stay over night book the additional night here: DLC 2024 Residential Conference Friday B&B
Philip Charles Brown
Biggleswade Deanery
St Albans Diocese
Skills. I was trained as a scientist/engineer, but for much of my civil service career I worked as a programme manager. Hence I am very much the bureaucrat or committee animal.
Passion. Ministry to rural communities. I was for 12 years Lay Chair of a semi rural deanery, where agriculture fits into an increasingly dormitory structure, exemplified by the 4 large parishes (out of 19) which contain over 70% of the population. With very good north-south communications along the A1 corridor and good east-west communications between Cambridge and Bedford, many of the population work outside the Deanery and very few in agriculture.
Secondary – the environment. As an engineer, my training highlighted the need to improve efficiency and reduce waste. My passion is that EVERYONE has a personal responsibility to minimise their consumption of the resources provided freely by God.
Phil Brown
Carla Hampton is Chaplain to the St Mellitus students in Chelmsford, as well as being an Honorary Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral, a Chaplain to The Priory Hospital and Vocations Adviser for Maldon & Dengie Deanery. She first studied at The Royal College of Music, before teaching in secondary education for 29 years (finishing as Assistant Deputy and School based Tutor for the Institute of Education). Carla trained for ordination at NTMTC, before serving her curacy at St Andrew’s, Chelmsford. Carla has served as a chaplain in hospitals and schools, as well as being part of the Chelmsford Retail Chaplains. She has been parish priest at Great Waltham with Ford End, and part of the steering committee for the Diocesan Pastoral Assistant Course, before being made Area Dean in 2007. She retired from full time parish ministry in 2012, whilst continuing as Area Dean for a further 3 years, but now has PTO in Chelmsford Diocese, as well as Norwich Diocese, where she is planning to move in 2018.
May 2016
UPDATE ON SM NETWORK
Following a recent meeting of the Steering Group, we are pleased to report that plans for our next conference are already taking shape. The Steering Group continues to be small in size (recently increased to 4 members with the co-option of Revd Canon Linda Church onto the group), and would greatly benefit from someone with IT skills to help develop the website. We are actively trying to resolve this, but any offers would be greatly appreciated.
NEXT CONFERENCE
We are planning our next conference for the second half of 2017 – final date yet to be confirmed. Drawing on your very helpful suggestions and feedback, we plan to retain, in broad terms, the format and processes used in the last conference. These enabled a deep level of participation and shared learning through group discussion, and helped to inspire and equip us in the practice of missionshaped collaborative ministry. The theme for our next conference is likely to be along the lines of growing disciples through team work, which we hope, given the national church’s emphasis on collaborative ministry and team working, will attract wide interest. We are currently approaching potential speakers/companions and investigating a possible new venue for the conference.
NEW BOOK
Members of the network may be interested in a new book published earlier this year: “Sharing God’s Blessing: How to renew the local church”, written by Robin Greenwood, an advocate of shared ministry over many years. Research-based at the same time as being a practical resource, the book aims to enable local churches to regain a sense of confidence through exploring God’s blessing and how that can be shared with local churches through group conversations. See: http://spckpublishing.co.uk/product/sharing-gods-blessing/ or see the Youtube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32tjU2acko .
Please remember the Steering Group in your prayers as we seek to discern, through our networking, website and conference planning, how best to resource and inspire dioceses, parishes and people in re-imagining, theologically and practically, mission-shaped collaborative ministry for the challenges of the 21st century.
Penny Evans On behalf of the SM Network
Steering Group: Revd Rob Daborn, Diocese of Lichfield Mrs Penny Evans, Reader & Local Ministry Development Adviser, Diocese of Hereford Mrs Mandy Stanton, Reader & Lay Ministry Development Officer, Diocese of Blackburn Co-opted member: Revd Canon Linda Church, Director of Ministry, Diocese of Ely Treasurer/Conference Administrator: Revd Dr Colin McCarty SSM, Bishop’s Officer for SSMs,, Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich
Full details, with a booking form, have already sent circulated (and are attached again) with a further reminder and update of programme details sent to you a week or so ago. If you, or a representative from your deanery, have not yet booked places at the conference, please take a look at the full and interesting programme, and get your booking in pronto. Down load Conference Details here
This DX HT #1 comes soon after the General Synod in York in July, with its momentous decision to approve the appointment of women to the episcopate. The national Deaneries Network ( NDN ) had an information stand throughout the Synod meeting and generated a lot of interest and enquiries. On the Saturday lunchtime NDN held a fringe event under the banner Beware – Deaneries Alive ! subtitled The Untapped Mission Potential of the Deanery. With speakers Bishop Alastair Redfern and Archdeacon Christine Wilson (both of Derby Diocese), the event attracted some 40 GS members – a good proportion of those attending the Synod. Christine is of course one of the speakers at Swanwick, and will also be preaching at the Conference Eucharist.
Everyone attending the event received a hard copy of the NDN report prepared following the 2013 survey of Deanery Synod Lay Chairs, to which there was a response of about 33% (one in three). The report will be available at the National Deaneries Conference and will be available to download from the NDN website. Printed copies can be provided for £1 each.
Help us keep upto date: Our mailing list for DX and other Deanery information is now extensive and includes the great majority of the Deaneries in England and Wales, as well as many other interested individuals. Please pass on this mailing to others you know who will be interested, and if you know others who would like to be on the mailing list, please send the relevant email contact details to charity.services@btclick.com.
There is now a link from the new NDN website to Parish & People and the Deanery Resource Unit NDN Resources, and there you will find a wide range of past P&P publications relevant to deaneries and a list of practical briefing papers. Most of these are still available in hard copy at reasonable prices from the DX editor (see contact details). We hope to see you at Swanwick, and please ensure that your Deanery continues to include me on the circulation list for DS minutes and other relevant papers.
PETER J BATES, DX Editor / Compiler for Parish & People
Please send your DS minutes, other relevant papers and items of interest to the DX editor / compiler, Peter J Bates at peter@bateshouse.freeserve.co.uk or dx@parishandpeople.org.uk. They are invaluable in fulfilling the purpose of DX, in the interchange of ideas and information amongst Deaneries.
In July we were present at the residential meeting of General Synod in York, with a stand over the weekend to raise our profile and a fringe meeting attended by nearly fifty. Bishop Alastair Redfern spoke about how deaneries are integral to mission and ministry in the Derby Diocese.
2012: The Salisbury Diocesan Communications Team provides this exciting new toolkit to help local churches to communicate effectively with those around them.
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