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Incumbency: Parish Finance
To explore the particular role that the incumbent has in the financial management of the parish. This includes the basics of reading balance sheets and annual accounts, how to work
Incumbency: Chairing the PCC & APCM
Archdeacons Hilary and Katrina help us understand the legal aspects of the PCC, the responsibilities of the incumbent, and consider how to chair good and fruitful PCC meetings. To book
Incumbency: Supervision Skills
Supervision is the art of helping someone develop in their ministry or role. At its heart it is offering someone thinking space so they can think through what they are
Incumbency: Legal Matters
This session covers some of the main areas where legal issues impact on day to day ministry. This includes: Marriage – banns, qualifying connections, common and special licenses and marriage
Incumbency: Buildings and Faculties
This session is designed to help clergy navigate the broad and potentially complex range of issues affecting buildings and churchyards. Putting buildings within their wider missional context and not simply
Incumbency: Leading a positive safeguarding culture
Looking at the specific role of the incumbent in safeguarding: where the responsibilities lie, how to develop the safeguarding work of the parishes and oversight of those involved, and how
Thomas Powe reflects on first month as new curate
Thomas Powe became ordained as a curate in June, currently serving at St Paul and St Stephen’s Church in Gloucester. A curate is a newly ordained minister who does a
Into Incumbency: Keep on Running the Race
With our commitments to those we serve we also need a commitment to ourselves – to what keeps us growing as human beings, as disciples and as ministers. This session
Into Incumbency: The ABCD of Community
Asset Based Community Development encourages good practice for churches engaging with local communities. The ABCD approach resonates with the Christian understanding of ‘mission dei’ – finding out what God is
Into Incumbency: Church Schools
Exploring the ways that the incumbent can engage with children, staff and pupils in their schools and to help us understand the important aspects of children’s spirituality, as well as
Into Incumbency: Environment and Faith
Against the background of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, the Diocese is giving increasing priority to exploring environmental concerns as a core discipleship priority. We achieved bronze Eco Diocese accreditation
Into Incumbency: Hassle to Harmony
Being an incumbent necessarily involves handling disagreement and conflict. This session helps us identify the importance of, and how to enable, different voices to be heard. Thus moving from conflict
Message from Archdeacon Phil, 17 October 2023
One of the questions we sometimes ask candidates being interviewed for clergy posts in the Diocese runs along the lines of ‘What, for you, is the heart of the good news of the Gospel, and is there a Bible verse that is central to this?’ … I am always struck by the range of responses and find myself reflecting on what my answer would be.
