Summer update - part 3
An update - and a request - from the Rev Marcus Walker, Chairman, Save the Parish "We need to compile a “dossier" for a forthcoming important meeting, at which we need to be able to say “this is happening in a parish” (it can be kept anonymous if you wish). We welcome all your enquiries; thank you for telling us what is happening among the grassroots. Please continue reporting your experiences to us - e.g. are you in vacancy and for how long? Are you being reorganised into a mega-parish and how have you been treated by the diocese? Are you a retired priest expected to take many services with no time for pastoral care? Are you a member of the clergy in a poor parish which is struggling while diocesan reorganisations are lavishly financed from Church Commissioner income? Can you provide any financial or attendance statistics in evidence? We see at our conferences that people, by sharing stories, work out that what is happening to them is happenin...