Structures Review Papers
Please click on the following links for further information:
a) Deployment Consultation Response - Final
b) Full Report of the Training Review Team
c) Report of Structures Review Team
d) Summarised version of Report of Structures Review Group
e) Ministries
f) Strategic Ministries
Ministries
- To root all thought and action in a commitment to Kingdom-focussed mission
- To co-ordinate Southern Synod’s thinking on all aspects of ministry, including Church Membership, Church Related Community Work, Eldership, Lay Preaching, Local Church Leadership and Ministry of Word and Sacraments
- To enable regular consultation on deployment of Ministers of Word and Sacraments and Church Related Community Workers and any other paid resources, offering a Synod-wide perspective to inform District decision-making
- To receive regular reports from Candidates and Students
- To receive regular reports on training matters
- Working Group of Ministries (answerable to Ministries)
- Candidates and Students
- To administer and oversee the process by which candidates apply for ministry of Word and Sacraments and Church Related Community Workers
- To reach the final discernment about applicants’ calls
- To provide sustained pastoral care for students, and to retain contact with their local churches and districts
- To participate in annual review processes as arranged by colleges/courses
- To make final decisions, after consultation with courses/colleges, about a student’s readiness for ordination/commissioning
- To consider ministers applying to transfer between stipendiary and non-stipendiary ministry
- To interview and make recommendations concerning ministers seeking reinstatement to the roll.
Strategic Ministries
- To oversee the Water in the Desert (Strategic Ministries) scheme of Southern Synod
- To receive and consider applications from Districts for the deployment of a minister (part time or full time equivalent) through the scheme
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