What is People and Places? PEOPLE & PLACES

What is People and Places? PEOPLE & PLACES

PEOPLE & PLACES Reimagining Responding Ensuring a Aiming for ministry for the 21 st to God s call on all just spread of long term sustainability century Christians paid of mission resources and ministry

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham We are here!

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham This is us

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Population c. 1.5 million

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Organised into 13 deaneries

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham And into 151 parishes

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham So that everyone who lives in our diocese is part of a parish

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham This is the Anglican way so that, like God, we are present EVERYWHERE!

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham In our 151 parishes we have 184 inherited places of worship & around 20 fresh expressions of church & church plants

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham 30 of these 151 parishes have a population of less than 5000 and 7 have between 20 000-30 000

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Yet they all have a Vicar.

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham We have c.200 clergy, 134 of whom are Vicars with a stipend & 23 of whom are Curates. The rest are mostly self-supporting

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham We also have lots and lots of Readers, Churchwardens, Treasurers, PCC members and

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Youth workers and children s workers and community workers and

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Children s and Families Missioners and Mission Apprentices and

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Administrators, musicians, vergers (probably about 2000 of us)

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Together, we worship and witness and serve our communities

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham By God s grace, lots of amazing things happen

The good news being proclaimed People being healed The church growing in numbers People being forgiven New churches being planted The lost being found The poor being raised up And lots lots more

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham BUT

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Only 1% choose to join us for worship 99% don t

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham And there are other low numbers as well

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Every year: c.100 of our churches take fewer than 5 funerals c. 130 of our churches take fewer than 5 weddings c. 80 have fewer than 5 baptisms

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Every year 40% of our churches have only one Sunday service 40% of our churches have no mid-week services

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Every year: Over half of our churches have fewer than 50 people on a Sunday Over half our churches have fewer than 100 at Christmas and Easter

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham The recent report Setting God s People free reveals that, like other dioceses, we aren t using the wealth of gifts God has given to his people, preferring instead to keep with our traditional models

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham A bit of a conversation stopper. But what else can we say?

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham We have 1 Vicar for every 11,200 people Hereford diocese has 1 for every 3,600

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham In 19 of our parishes other religions make up the majority of the population

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham In half our parishes other religions make up less than 10% of the population

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham We are the poorest diocese in the whole Church of England

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham 45% of our parishes are in the 10% poorest in the country

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham And we have much lower reserves than most other dioceses

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham Us Oxford 5 million reserves 125 million reserves

Rough Guide to the Church of England Birmingham which means money is tight except when we get given grants but they re usually one-offs and don t last

So, how do we pay for it all? Common Fund (from Parishes) Birmingham Trusts (eg St Martin s) Income from funeral & wedding fees The Church Commissioners

Where does it go? Paying clergy and pensions: costs 45k for a full-time vicar Paying for central services which support the parishes

So where have we got to? Not many people are coming to church Congregations tend to be small & many struggle We re not using all the gifts God has given us The parish system is unfair- populationwise We can t afford it going forward

Time for a rethink We need to reimagine ministry so we can reach out to more people without struggling so much We need to mobilise more lay people into the vocations God has called them We need to make the system of doing things more fair We need to ensure what we do is sustainable

Time for a rethink It is not about asking Vicars to do more It is about working out how can we have an effective Anglican presence in each community But it may look quite different to how it is now.

So we asked around (many of you were involved) and, on the basis of what was said, we have come up with some suggestions

Suggestions Let s keep investing in: Church plants Fresh expressions of church Revitalisations To help us reach new people in new places in new ways.

Suggestions Let s move to fewer parishes/places and organise them around populations to be fairer.

Suggestions In each new place to help things work better (and be affordable) let s have: One Oversight Minister Context-based Ministers Local Ministers

Suggestions Not all the Ministers will need to be ordained Most of the roles in church could be done by someone who s not ordained

8 Dimensions of Effective Local Presence Worship and Prayer Mission, witness and evangelism Leadership and connectivity Ministry of the Word Ministry of the Sacrament Pastoral care and sustaining community Teaching, nurture and discipleship Governance, finance and facilities

Suggestions Let s do everything we can to make more Christians and more confident Christiansto set God s people free

Recent reductions in income Mission Development Fund ceased in January 2017 Lower Income Communities Fund reducing + no inflation rise Common Fund is flat, not keeping pace with inflation Fees from weddings and funerals in steep decline Investment returns are at an all-time low We have little historic wealth Inflation is rising

2018/9 Core Income and Expenditure 2018 M 2019 M Common Fund 5.7 5.8 Parochial Fees 0.5 0.4 Trusts and Grants 0.8 0.8 Ch Commissioners 2.2 2.0 Housing/Invstmnts 0.6 0.6 TOTAL 9.8 9.6 2018 M 2019 M Parish Clergy 5.5 5.6 Curates/Ordinands 1.3 1.3 Other Clergy/Grants 0.4 0.4 Parish Services 1.3 1.3 Diocesan Operations 1.0 1.0 Archbishops Council 0.4 0.5 TOTAL 9.9 10.0 DEFICIT 0.1 0.4

Parish Services / Diocesan Operations PARISH SERVICES Training & Development Schools Mission Inter-Faith Community Regeneration Stewardship HR Safeguarding Property DIOCESAN OPERATIONS Governance Finance Legal Communications Offices Administration

Suggestions Let s take a good look at Common Fund again so it helps us to be fairer and more sustainable in the long run

Key facts about our Common Fund Out of 10,742 adults (plus 1,862 Children) 7,881 are Regular Givers 80% of them/us Gift Aid

PARISH UNRESTRICTED INCOME 2015 39 parishes with unrestricted income under 50k 50 between 50k and 100k 34 between 100k and 250k 4 between 250k and 360k 3 between 750k and 800k NB Unrestricted income = Money a church can use as it likes

PARISH COMMON FUND CONTRIBUTIONS 2016 Gave under 20k Gave 20k - 40 Gave 40k - 100k Gave 100k - 130k Gave 190k - 200k Gave 250-260k

PARISH COMMON FUND AS A % OF INCOME 55 parishes gave less than 40% of their income 59 between 40% and 60% 13 between 60% and 100% 3 greater than 100%

HOW MANY STIPENDS CAN WE AFFORD? Don t know! BUT SAY 7,500 regular givers each give 15 per week on average (which they don t) All Gift Aided (which it isn t) 7,312,500 would be generated in giving If 40% goes to Common Fund then only 65 stipends Fortunately there are other sources of income

5 SCENARIOS 1. Increase giving and Common Fund 2. Cut sufficient posts to balance the budget as vacancies arise 3. Other ideas 4. Spread stipends justly across the population 5. Re-imagine a sustainable ministry Lay and ordained Paid and unpaid

A PEOPLE Framework Re-imagining patterns of paid ministry OVERSIGHT (72) Deploy justly across the population Stay present everywhere SUSTAINABLE LOCAL (36) Resource congregations to flourish CONTEXT (Up to 28) VIABLE Relevant specialist ministries

A PEOPLE Framework 72 + 36 + 28 = 136 POTENTIALLY MORE PAID MINISTRY, BUT DEPLOYED DIFFERENTLY

A PEOPLE plan to fix the short term To balance the 2018 budget 6 of the posts currently in vacancy where there will be no appointment in the foreseeable future 3 posts to find in 2018 where there will be no appointment in the foreseeable future Maintain an average vacancy rate of 9 in 2018 To sustain long term budgets 8.5 further posts or equivalent

Current Common Fund Method (Ministry Cost + Parish Services Cost + Clergy Training Cost) x Parish Percentage

Common Fund Contributions 98 52 1-472k

Common Fund 2019 and on No place is asked for more than 60% of income 60% of income (31 places) OVERSIGHT ministry (17 places) +CONTEXT ministry (41 places) +LOCAL ministry (25 places) +CURATE +CONTRIBUTION to others (37 places) To be self-supporting the contributions must fund those who can t cover the cost of oversight

Common Fund Contributions 1500000 1000000 2019? 500000 66 0-500000 64 21-72k -1000000-1500000 MORE THAN MINISTRY COST LESS THAN MINISTRY COST

Common Fund Change Impact Less Difference More 6 > 20k 5 17 10k- 20k 15 24 5k- 10k 21 27 0-5k 30

A Worked Example Parish Population 8,827 (5% Other Faiths) Current Stipend and Cost 1 = 45,000 P&P Oversight Allocation 0.48 P&P Context Allocation 0.20 Local Ministry? 0.52? 2016 Common Fund Received 23,312 (= 36% of income) 2016 Unrestricted Income 65,449 2019 Common Fund Possibility: 54,000 (= (0.48 + 0.20 + 0.52) x 45,000 = 82%) 30,600 (= (0.48 + 0.20) x 45,000 = 47%)

Selecting & equipping oversight, local and context ministers Context ministry deployment Encouraging lay disciples to lead Covering sparser populations Cross-tradition oversight Ecumenical and cross-diocesan border discussions Interfaith presence & engagement Explicit support for the poor

Buildings - new income streams? External fundraising strategy Appropriate level of diocesan staff Basis of Common Fund contributions Role of Area Deans (paid part time?) Deanery operational support Number of deaneries? Church Planting/Resourcing Churches Fresh Expressions Implementation/culture change plan Pray lots

Timetable All Clergy: 15 January > Area Deans: 23 January Deanery Clergy Discussions with Bishop and Archdeacon Deanery Synod Discussions ( NOW!) Meeting with Readers (10 Apr), Youth workers etc tba People & Places framework to Bishop s Council: 8 March Update Diocesan Synod: 24 March Construct 2019 budget based on new framework