Save The Parish - Cornwall

As controversial ‘On The Way’ restructuring plans in the Diocese of Truro attract national headlines, some deaneries are questioning the apparently unaccountable actions of the ‘Deanery Implementation Teams'.  Yes, shades of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four here.  ( Click this link to read more thoughts about the Church of England's current 'manager-speak' .) 'Deanery Implementation Team' (DIT) is the name that the Diocese has given to the groups of people in each deanery who will be taking the next steps – unless challenged – in the On The Way plans under the leadership of the Rural Dean and the Diocesan Director for Change and Renewal, Ruth Marriott . In Kerrier in west Cornwall, churchgoers report that the Deanery Implementation Team (DIT) seems to be acting without due consultation. In Penwith - a deanery stretching from Hayle all the way to Land's End - a cleric said of the DIT, led by the forceful vicar of St Ives, Rev Nick Widdows: “Their ...

  Save The Parish Cornwall held a face-to-face sit-down conference this week with Bishop Hugh Nelson and senior officials of the Diocese of Truro. At it, the Save The Parish Cornwall pressed strongly for an immediate moratorium of the diocese’ sweeping On The Way church reorganisation plans that will change irrevocably Anglican worship in the county. Although organised previously, the meeting in Truro came a day after significant coverage in the national press sparked by a 57-page dossier of testimonies collated by Save The Parish Cornwall from deeply concerned and distressed Cornish churchgoers and the wider community about both the manner and the impact of the damaging On The Way plans. The dossier, published widely this week, includes further demands from Save The Parish Cornwall including: *Guarantees that stipendiary priest numbers in the county be increased within a year from the current record low of 54 to a minimum 81 - not including curates in training - and ...