Rugby Deanery - mission & ministry

1. Affirming the principle of every community having a centre for worship with local ordained leadership. This need not be a formal church building but might be a community hall or even the sitting room of a member of the community.
2. Developing excellent relationships between the clergy within the deanery. The role of Chapter will be enhanced to ensure that the style and content of the meetings is attractive to the members. NSM and OLM clergy provide much valuable input into the life of the deanery and more ways of including them will need to be found.
3. Developing ways in which clergy can contribute to the life of the church beyond their own parish boundaries, using their gifts and experience in creative ways. Increasing the element of deanery need in a parish profile when looking for a new incumbent.
4. Developing a Deanery Vision, in which the mission and ministry of the Church of England is planned by working together as a team of churches serving the people of the deanery.
5. Creating excellent training opportunities for ordained and lay within the deanery that reflects the context and needs of the parishes and deanery. The agenda can be guided by the gathering of Parish Priorities responses at a Deanery level. This will be resourced by local clergy, Readers and other laity, inter-denominationally and along with diocesan & other providers.
6. Developing a mutually acceptable way of determining the parish share of each parish. Mutuality between parishes should be at the heart of the process and those in leadership should be encouraged to work together in setting goals and targets. Whatever the system looks like it must take note of local situations and mission, and take account of factors such as large increases and decreases in congregations.