Welcome to hfd.org.uk the Hammersmith & Fulham Deanery Website  This is a Deanery in the Kensington Episcopal Area. On/through this site you will find:  The papers for the Deanery Synods. The next Synod is on 22 April at either St Paul's Hammersmith or St John's Walham Green The Deanery Mission Action Plan The Churches and Parishes in the Deanery - If you have updates to this please email me. You can also see information about the parishes from the Area Dean's Reports on the parishes (a Word document). Activities and Events Minutes of Deanery Synod Meetings and Agendas for them Ideas that work for us: Churches in the Deanery share ideas that work for them. Resources available and required Other relevant information A link to Growing Healthy Churches - a helpful Springboard document presented to the Area Council The presentation on An Anglican Methodist Covenant used by Fr Donald Reece on 7th Nov 02(powerpoint) last updated 2 Mar 2004

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Latest News:

• Rev Sarah Archer elected to Deanery SC.
• Congratulations to Rev Stephan Welch, Rev Sarah Archer, Rev Sonya Arnold, Rev Ali Tyler, Sarah Burrell, Chris Took, Jenkin Thomas and Diana Page on their elections to Diocesan Synod.
• Provisional growth figures for the parishes in the Deanery show that Electoral Rolls are up by over 11% from 2002 to 2003. The three parishes with the most rapidly growing Electoral Rolls were:
  • St John w St James (up 49%, an increase of 28),
  • St Andrew's (up 42%, an increase of 42) and
  • St Paul's (up 38%, an increase of 117)

  We praise God for the encouraging way in which there are so many signs of growth in the Deanery, and offer the warmest congratulations to all the people at these churches whose prayers, hard work and friendly welcome helped this growth occur. The next three Synods will be held in these churches so that we can see and hear what has happened.

Welcome to the 21 Church of England parishes in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.This site provides information about each of our parishes and allows the exchange of ideas between parishes. We welcome people new to our part of London or to the Church of England. If you want more information please get in touch.

The Area Dean is Fr Stephan Welch.

We hope that you will find this site useful. If you have any comments or questions please email nb@starcourse.org.

Deanery Mission Action Plan

Our Goal is "to enhance growth and cooperation in Christ in our churches".

1. GROWTH

a) To share learnings about successful growth factors by holding Deanery Synods at Churches which have shown significant growth (eg in rolls, attendance, giving) and hearing how this has come about.

b) To encourage all Churches to develop a Mission Action Plan.

c) To develop particular 'Deanery Growth Projects', having the full support of the whole Deanery and to which every congregation can make some kind of contribution - resources, people, ideas, prayer. The Deanery has been asked to re-develop St John's, Glenthorne Road as such an 'extra-parochial' project.

d) To explore, understand and promote new ideas and models for Church, especially in community ministry.

e) To have a Common Fund process that encourages financial growth through a sense of responsibility and mutual accountability. We seek a commitment to meeting 100% of the Deanery's Net Costs by 2004 and 100% of its Gross Costs by 2005.

2. COOPERATION The Deanery Standing Committee and the Deanery Synod will make their main contribution to the life of the Deanery itself by focussing their discussions and planning on the strengthening of cooperation between all Deanery Churches in these ways:

a) Closer work and discussion within local clusters of parishes, with ecumenical partnership where possible.

b) Networking across the Deanery on specific issues.

c) Support for the 'Hope for Hammersmith and Fulham' programme*.

d) The organisation every two years of a Deanery Day for the sharing of ideas, mutual encouragement and celebration.

e) The support of Christian Mission through the schools in the Deanery.

* Which includes support for Soul in the City.

Appendix - Common Fund Process.

i. Parish Treasurers are asked to return a copy of the accounts for the previous year by 31st May, either by separate letter or by means of a form in the pack sent to each parish for its Annual Meeting. Treasurers will also be asked for Electoral Roll numbers and for information about any special circumstances that may affect the parish's financial position in the course of the next two years. The clergy will also supply the Area Dean with a brief statement about the mission planning and activities of every parish. These statements will be published as a special edition of 'Deanery Exchange' and circulated throughout the Deanery to increase general awareness of what work is in progress. This document will also resource the process of Common Fund allocations.

ii. The lay members of the Standing Committee meet in the 3rd week of June to consider draft targets for '04 and '05.

iii. There is a meeting of Treasurers in late July to discuss the targets and to receive firm offers for the next year and provisional targets for the year following. This gives a good amount of time to PCC's to discuss the targets proposed and to agree their positions before the Common Fund meeting in the autumn.

Ideas that work for us

• Prayer and Worship
• Reaching out
• Working with young people
• Working with children
• Working with adults
• Fundraising and financial management
• Community involvement
• Others

Resources Available and Required

• People Required
  • Burlington Danes School needs a new Deanery Appointed Governor. If you think you might be being called for this important work please email the Area Dean.
• People Available
• Things Required
• Things Available
• Publicity Available - download posters etc.. which you can adapt and make your own.

Activities and Events

Deanery Synod Minutes & Agendas

Standing Comittee

The members were be elected at the June 2002 Synod.
Area Dean - Fr Stephan Welch, Lay Joint Chairman: Rowland Mynors
Secretary: Nicholas Beale, Treasurer: Dennis Browne

Other Lay Members: Mike Dyson (Area Finance Committee Rep), Isabelle Rosin, Paul Scott, Letitia Stenning
Other Clergy Members: Rev Joe Hawes, Rev Sarah Archer, Rev Mark Osborne ex officio as Chapter Clerk, Rev Jeremy Ganga

Pam Rivett has kindly vounteered to be Alternate Secretary. Rev Madelene Bulman and Rev Mark Ryeland resigned due to pressure of other commitments, and Joe and Rev Stuart Lees were elected by Chapter to replace them; Stuart subsequently resigned due to pressure of other commitments and Sarah was elected by Chapter to replace him.