Summer update: Save the Parish Conference and General Synod - Part 2
The Rev Marcus Walker, Chairman, Save the Parish, writes about July's General Synod at York.... The meeting of General Synod at York was widely seen to be one of the most fractious meetings anyone can remember. There were three elements of the session on which Save the Parish focused its attention. The first was a motion about parochial ministry. It was fairly 'motherhood and apple pie' but it gave us the opportunity to highlight the complete failure of the Archbishops' Council to follow the terms of the Church Commissioners' endowments - which are supposed to be spent on supporting the stipends of priests in the poorest parishes of the country. You can read an article here about what we were trying to do in this debate, which was written for the Critic. We have also spliced together a video explaining the issue and showing the short debate that was allowed on the topic. Watch our video on parish funding The other big issues which Save the Parish was involved wit