The Synod (e) encourage each parish and diocese to support a process of local missional
discernment (Mission Action Planning) to enable greater effectiveness in parochial
mission and put a plan in place to meet the discerned missional outcomes to be
reviewed annually.
The Rev’d Matt Beer: ”It was not enough to sustain numbers of ordained and lay leaders,” he said. “We need to increase them exponentially.”
CT Madeleine Davies General synod and parish system
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