Learning Community to focus on Wales’ switch from parishes to ministry and mission areas
[The Church in Wales] People from across Wales will meet Nov. 4-5 to pool their experience of the new form of church structures called Ministry or Mission Areas. More than 70 people, including representatives from each of six dioceses, will gather for the two-day Diocesan Learning Community to share their stories, both the challenges and opportunities, and to address common issues. The first Diocesan Learning Community took place in 2023.
It is more than a decade since the process of changing the ancient model of parishes into Ministry and Mission Areas began, following an independent, root and branch review of the Church in Wales in 2012.
All parishes have now been amalgamated into larger areas that are served by a team of lay and ordained ministers, offering both traditional and pioneering ministry and sharing resources. The term Mission Areas has been adopted in the Diocese of St. Asaph, covering North-East Wales, with the rest of Wales using the term Ministry Areas.
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