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Deanery Plan

Our deanery plan is the means by which we develop and share our proactive long-term plans for growth.  It encompasses both a “big picture” strategic plan for our 35 churches and a “bottom up” picture of the priorities of each parish.
Our current goals for the deanery plan are:

 1.  Achieve sustainable clergy deployment
 2.  Respond to the needs revealed in the parish plans
 3.  Invest in what grows and then spread it
 
The means by which we intend to achieve these goals are:
 a)  Growing a healthy culture of right relationships and a common spirit
 b)  Freely sharing knowledge and experience
 c)  Making good plans and communicating them clearly
 d)  Forming mission focused partnerships
 e)  Deploying our resources effectively and sustainably to achieve these plans
 f)  Ensuring all our work is aligned with these objectives and ways of working

Here are some examples of what this looks like in practice:

• we devote at least half our time at every deanery synod to discussing new ideas, mission and good practice we could share
• we are developing a new vision for our deanery chapter (meetings of clergy) based around the picture of the upper room in which the disciples met on the day of Pentecost
• as a deanery we are supporting a new church plant in the Castlefield area of High Wycombe, being led by Saint Andrew’s church

 
The deanery plan can be viewed by clicking here

Please click here for the appendices to the deanery plan, including the individual parish plans

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