As part of the Bishop of Barchester's strategy for the diocese: "Re-envisioning the Vision", a number of roles have been created for Mission Facilitators.
Each Mission Facilitator is assiged to a Mission Facilitation Group. They can be either lay or ordained. Their role is to facilitate Mission within the Group, identifying opportunities for facilitation when the Mission is under-facilitated, and enabling greater facilitation.
But Mission Facilitators cannot facilitate Mission on their own. They are above all mediators between those who apparently worship in what used to be called "parishes", and the team of Mission Archdeacons-without-Portfolio who have been appointed to manage the facilitators. Their roles require communication both vertically - up to the Mission Archdeacons and down to the people who occasionally meet in churches - and sideways, to ensure that they are facilitating Mission in a way that is truly enabling and envisioning.
In order to ensure the cohesion of the Mission Facilitators, Benefice Consolidators, and Mission Archdeacons, we have therefore created the role of Facilitation Facilitator. The right person for the role will be responsing for both upstream and downstream Mission Facilitation, chairing the Mission Facilitation committee and providing the Mission Archeacons with up to date information on the Mission Facilitation dashboard, enabling them to gain a helicopter view of where Mission requires additional facilitation, and where Mission has been quite facilitated enough.
If you feel you are the right person for this job, send your CV, together with full details of your career in Post Office management, to the PA to the PA to the PA to the PA to the Archdeacon of Barchester, Plumstead Episcopi, Barsetshire.
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ReplyDeleteMinster Communities (the dioceseses solution to we have no money) feels just like this!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Norfolk
ReplyDeleteGiven that it's the week of prayer for Christian Unity and in the spirit of Receptive Ecumenism I feel that we in the URC should be able to see the wisdom of creating a post such as this. We'd probably need to form a few more committees to translate it in an appropriate ecclesial manner and oversee it's implementation though, but I'm sure it would be worth it in the end...
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ReplyDeleteThe PA to the PA to the PA to the PA to the Archdeacon of Barchester is currently on extended sick leave to facilitate recovery from role-induced stress. Please forward your message to the Archdeacon, who is so far up the hierarchy that s/he needs something to do.
Scarily accurate!
DeleteThe Dean of Felpersham Cathedral has already applied for this role. But they were unable to find the way out of Borsetshire to reach Barsetshire.
ReplyDeleteCould you just run that up the flag pole again for me ?
ReplyDeleteOh, you've been to my diocese!!
ReplyDeleteWhat's the salary? My vocation doesn't kick in for peanuts
ReplyDeleteI'm in hysterics. This is fabulous. On the other hand we're getting worryingly close to this...
ReplyDeleteAs someone has identified themselves as being from Norfolk, and I'm fairly certain this is my own diocese I wonder if the positions are going viral?
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