| Second UK Pilot PMC Process begins in 2012 Click here to return to the Church Innovations web site. PMC in UK moves out of its first base in the South-West to the East Midlands in 2012. Two Anglican (Episcopalian) dioceses have combined to create a pilot cluster that will begin working together in March. Both dioceses have invested heavily in clergy and lay leadership development over the past ten years, but recognise the individualised nature of this work. PMC offers us the opportunity to engage whole congregations in cultural change and this is one of the key reasons we are eager to start. In addition we love the way that built into PMC is the idea of adaptive change where there isn’t the answer or the silver bullet which will solve all the church’s problems. We have a reasonably sized cluster being put together with a couple of large groups or teams of churches with 5-6 congregations participating through to single congregation parishes. They also range widely from rural and suburban contexts, market towns and inner and outer city housing estates. Leading the process is a delivery team made up of officers and lay members from both dioceses and led by Rev Canon Dr. Nigel Rooms from Southwell and Nottingham and Rev Dr. Mike Harrison from Leicester Diocese. We are very much looking forward to seeking God’s preferred and promised future (see we’re learning the PMC language!) and hope to expand the process to future clusters in due course. |
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