Deaneries as Agents of Change
David Jennings
Senior Strategy Office
Church Commissioners and Archbishops’ Council
David brings to the role 25 years’ experience of working in the public and not-for-profit sectors. His brief is to support strategy development in the Church covering growth and resource planning.
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The link to the church growth website is: www.churchgrowthrd.org.uk
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A model for shaping deaneries for mission – from the ground up
Ven Christine Wilson: Archdeacon of Chesterfield
Christine has extensive experience of youth leadership; community development and overseas partnerships. In her role as archdeacon she shares in the senior leadership of the Diocese of Derby and is currently undertaking a significant piece of work on developing the deaneries.
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The Hayes is situated in the Amber Valley in the heart of picturesque Derbyshire just 5 miles from Junction 28 of the M1. The Hayes offers a high standard of modern en suite accommodation and state of the art conference facilities.
The opening Friday evening address was by the Revd the Lord Leslie Griffiths, Superintendent
Minister, Wesley’s Chapel, London who being a South Walian was able to chart without any notes
not only his calling but also to powerfully highlight the problems for the Methodist Church
especially because for the past 40 years its membership has declined from 675,000 to
200,000.
He compared Methodist circuits to Anglican deaneries and after his time in Haiti he
knew the power of peasant peoples through what he called their survival schools. He asked,
‘What are we communicating to whom?’ but really, ‘We should be led by the Spirit rather than
by the Book.’ As a Labour life peer in the House of Lords he can convey a Christian message in
supporting his fellow peers and as to he can still be involved with Haiti. His final thought after
a lively Q&A session was that we have to share and trust in each other.
Peter Price is renowned for his energy and his ideas. His gifts as a brilliant teacher and communicator have been widely recognised as is his commitment to reconciliation, justice and peace.
