Save The Parish - Cornwall

Now that most On The Way deanery plans have either gone through in Cornwall – despite widespread protest – or are in their final stages, ‘Joint PCCs’ are being proposed between parishes in the same benefice. They are being encouraged under the strapline ‘One Parish – One PCC’. Save The Parish has produced fact sheets to help you. Here are ten strong reasons to resist - click on this link to read more background. And here are ten WAYS to resist ...... click here to read the fact sheet. It is important – if you care about your church and its future – that this should be resisted. Parish re-organisation elsewhere in the country has resulted in church closures. It discourages local involvement, local commitment and giving.

Unsurprising reactions on Facebook to the  Bishop of St Germans the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson's recent address at the Truro Diocesan Synod. The Bishop laments the decline of church going. Click here to read the piece with its oddly defeatist tone. The three comments below a just a sample of the response.  Bishop Hugh laments the decline in church going.  We’re all aware of the consequences of changes in patterns of belief in this country. We see it in our church pews, in the numbers of children in our churches and in our PCC bank balances. But I think those are the symptoms, not the cause. The real change isn’t that people still believe the same things they used to believe but have stopped going to church because shopping is more fun. The real change is that people believe different things now. it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed And it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed - that people have worked their way through the ...

 A transcript of the speech of the Bishop of St Germans, the Rt Rev Hugh Nelson, at Truro Diocesan Synod on 24 September 2022. We’re all aware of the consequences of changes in patterns of belief in this country. We see it in our church pews, in the numbers of children in our churches and in our PCC bank balances. But I think those are the symptoms, not the cause. The real change isn’t that people still believe the same things they used to believe but have stopped going to church because shopping is more fun. The real change is that people believe different things now. it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed And it’s not fundamentally that people’s rational beliefs have changed - that people have worked their way through the Creed and decided they don’t believe it after all - it’s much deeper than that. The way people understand the world we live in, how we decide what makes for a good life, the values that guide our decisions, what we think happens after...

Transforming Mission finances were again challenged at Truro Diocesan Synod - this time by Peter Holman of Carnmarth North.