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This upd8 features the current thinking of the future shape of the Connexional
Team. There is also the latest information on some of the projects.
Current thinking on the future shape of the Connexional Team
Decision-making framework
The twelve projects (a reminder)
News of the projects:
7: Relationship between mph and the Connexional Team
11b: Reviewing principles underpinning the formation of the Connexional Team budget
12: Putting all grant making in one ‘place’
A prayer
Contact details
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Current thinking on the future
shape of the Connexional Team
Here are slides from May’s Team Training Session for the Connexional
Team. The presentation was also made at the Connexional Leadership
Team and the Strategies and Resources Committee.
The suggested shape includes:
• Leadership and Management
• Operational Areas
• Specialist Areas
• Project Work
• Some indication of the wider Church context
A more detailed version and glossary is in the handout, which was
given out at the presentations. If you haven’t received a copy, then
click here.
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Decision-making framework
The Team Framework diagram expresses the spirit of Team Focus. At the present
stage the titles in the boxes are deliberately imprecise, but by Conference 2007
the Church will need to be clear what they will contain. We need a tool that allows
for clear decision-making about that on the basis of criteria that the Church at
large can own.
Using the commitment in Team Focus that the Team will ‘focus on what is best
done or can only be done by the Team in pursuit of Priorities’ JSG has worked on
a tool that converts that principle into an aid for deciding which bids for Team
resources should succeed.
This is only a tool to help prepare for decisions; difficult judgements still need to
be made.
The diagrams that follow show the key stages in using the tool. More detail is
provided in the presentation handout available by clicking here.
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Methodist Church Test
Yes
Required by
Statute or
explicit
Methodist
decision?
No
God’s Mission
Expressed in
Priorities or
other
Conference
Policy?
Yes
Test
degree of
>10
Import
<10
No
Stop
Refer back
to proposer
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Example Filter Questions
Max score
Is the proposed work.....
... requested by an ecumenical partner
on behalf of the wider Church?
3
.... helping to bind the Connexion
together?
2
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Should Connexional Team resources be used?
Test:
Is there
a team
role?
>10
<10
Consider wider Connexional
resources
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Example Filter Questions
Max score
Would the Team contribution to
the proposed work....
.... promote a required consistency of
practice across the Connexion?
.... bring its own funding?
4
2
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Should Connexional Team resources be used?
E³
Yes
Test:
Is there
a team
role?
>10
Special
creative
risk-taking?
No
<10
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Exciting
Experimental
Enterprises
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Should Connexional Team Resources be used?
E³
Yes
Costs
Test:
Is there
a team
role?
>10
Special
creative
risk-taking?
No
Scale of
Team
resources
required?
Partners
Risks
Time
<10
D
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c
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Consider wider Connexional
resources
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The twelve projects cover:
• Evangelism and speaking of God and faith in ways that make sense to all involved
• Re-visiting Team support for local church, circuit and district ministries
• Re-visioning work with children and young people
• The work of public issues staff, MRDF, World Action and Mission Education,
with a view to improving advocacy and communication
• Improving communication between the whole Team and the whole Church
• A re-configuration of World Church partnerships
• The relationship between mph and the Team
• The working arrangements between TMCP and the Team
• Conversations with ecumenical partners
• Developing a twenty-first century approach to education issues
• Improving the budget-making process, including a fresh look at accountability
• Putting all grant-making in one ‘place’
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Project 7:
The relationship between mph and the Connexional Team
A report went to April’s meeting of Methodist Council. In terms of the Connexional
Team it recommended that:
• A clear and simple agreement (along the lines of a service level agreement) be
produced in regard to the inter-relationship of mph and the Team, within a shared
accountability to Methodist Conference.
• The Communication Office’s Design and Production remain London-based but
linked and integrated with the Design and Production staff of mph in Peterborough
to make a single Design and Production Unit, with a single line of accountability.
• A single commissioning/permission-giving/editorial/overseeing group be
established for the ‘Methodist Publishing House’ imprint which would deal with all
Conference and Team publications.
• New arrangements are also being made so it remains possible to publish worthwhile
material from the Team, which may not necessarily be commercially viable.
The Methodist Council received the report and sent it to Conference.
To find out more information, e-mail Ken Kingston.
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Project 11b
Reviewing principles underpinning the formation of
the Connexional Team budget
The PMG is Deacon Myrtle Poxon (Chair), Revds David Deeks and Ken
Howcroft, Revd Anne Brown (District Chair ), Bob Lolley, (ex District
Treasurer), Revd Linda Barriball (Superintendent) and Peter Cotgrove (ex
Connexional Treasurer).
This first meeting considered the work to be done and it was readily
agreed that finance within the Methodist Church is very complex and if it
can be simplified through this Project, that would benefit everyone.
It is important to consider the Connexional Team Budget in the context of
the finances of the whole Church and work was identified to be done
before the next meeting on 16th June. Two sub-groups considering some
non-team items in the Connexional Team Budget and the timetable and
process for future budgets, are also getting underway.
To find out more information, e-mail John Nelson.
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Project 12:
Putting all grant making in one ‘place’
The detailed objectives and critical path can now be
viewed by clicking here.
This project relates to grants made from within the
Connexional Team’s budget and also makes some
suggestions for grants that are made by the districts.
To find out more information, e-mail Luke Curran.
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God of my life, create in me the heart of a pilgrim.
There is a part of me that fights letting go. Do not allow me to become so rooted or
so accustomed to my daily tasks and inner securities, that I miss your voice calling
me to greater growth and deeper maturity in faith.
I want to hoard my blessings, to hang on to my gifts, to hide my talents and the
blessings of my life. I want to take them out one by one, only when I know that it is
safe and I wont get hurt or emptied.
Stir in me a fire of such a great love for you and your people that I will constantly
celebrate life and appreciate its beauty, even when it is painful.
Allow me to ‘see visions and dream dreams’ so that I can live with your vision and
not be overwhelmed by the struggles of the journey.
God of Exodus, I know you are near. Grant me the courage to change, whether that
change is an inner or an outer one.
Deepen my awareness of your faithful presence and bless my pilgrim heart. Amen
(Joyce Rupp. Praying Our Goodbyes)
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